Ultrafast photon counting applied to resonant scanning STED microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-38

  Wu, Xundong ^a   Toro, Ligia ^a   Stefani, Enrico ^a   Wu, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Photon counting; Resonant scanning; STED; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSIONS; ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION; CONTINUOUS WAVE; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEM; RESONANT SCANNING; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; SUPERRESOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPY; ONLINE SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST PHOTON COUNTING; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTON; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHOTONS;

EID: 84913621986     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12183     Document Type: Article

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