Deep, high contrast microscopic cell imaging using three-photon luminescence of β-(NaYF4:Er3+/NaYF4) nanoprobe excited by 1480-nm CW laser of only 1.5-mW

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1857-1866

  Liu, Jing ^a   Wu, Ruitao ^a   Li, Nana ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Zhan, Qiuqiang ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PHOTONS;

EMISSION INTENSITY; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; HEATING EFFECT; HEXAGONAL CRYSTALS; IMAGING DEPTH; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; STRONG SCATTERINGS;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CELL IMAGING; CELL VIABILITY; IMAGING; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINESCENCE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NANOPROBE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84942897255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.6.001857     Document Type: Article

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