STED Nanoscopy with Time-Gated Detection: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vicidomini, Giuseppe ^a,b   Schönle, Andreas ^b   Ta, Haisen ^b   Han, Kyu Young ^b,e   Moneron, Gael ^b,c   Eggeling, Christian ^b,d   Hell, Stefan W ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPE; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION NANOSCOPY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84872573672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054421     Document Type: Article

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