Potential of multi-photon upconversion emissions for fluorescence diffuse optical imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 17782-17790

  Liu, Haichun ^a   Xu, Can T ^a   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-PHOTON EMISSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UP-CONVERSION EMISSION; UPCONVERTING NANOPARTICLES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84905374484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.017782     Document Type: Article

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