Enhancement of lateral resolution and optical sectioning capability of two-photon fluorescence microscopy by combining temporal-focusing with structured illumination

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2396-2410

  Isobe, Keisuke ^a,b   Takeda, Takanori ^a,c   Mochizuki, Kyohei ^a,c   Song, Qiyuan ^b,d   Suda, Akira ^c   Kannari, Fumihiko ^d   Kawano, Hiroyuki ^e   Kumagai, Akiko ^e   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^b,e   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY;

FLUORESCENCE REJECTION; LATERAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL SECTIONING; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; TEMPORAL FOCUSING; TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

FOCUSING;

AGAROSE; MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE; RHODAMINE B;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; ILLUMINATION; INTERFEROMETRIC TEMPORAL FOCUSING MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84887155133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.002396     Document Type: Article

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