Simple and versatile modifications allowing time gated spectral acquisition, imaging and lifetime profiling on conventional wide-field microscopes

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pal, Robert ^a   Beeby, Andrew ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lanthanides time gated; Microscopy; Spectroscopy; Time resolved

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974575216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/2/3/037001     Document Type: Article

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