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ArticleJournal of biomedical optics

Enhancing precision in time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging.

Ching-Wei Chang, Mary-Ann Mycek

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Article in Journal of biomedical optics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ching-Wei ChangUniversity of Michigan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA.
Mary-Ann Mycek

Funding

Photon Migration Codes for Tissue Spectroscopy &ImagingR01CA114542 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MYCEK, MARY-ANN · 2005 to 2008
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NCI NIH HHS CA-114542NCI NIH HHS R01 CA114542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In biological applications of fluorescence lifetime imaging, low signals from samples can be a challenge, causing poor lifetime precision. We demonstrate how optimal signal gating (a method applied to the temporal dimension of a lifetime image) and novel total variation denoising models (a method applied to the spatial dimension of a lifetime image) can be used in time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to improve lifetime precision. In time-gated FLIM, notable fourfold precision improvements were observed in a low-light example. This approach can be employed to improve FLIM data while minimizing sample light exposure and increasing imaging speed.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsBiostatisticsData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, FluorescenceMolecular ImagingOptical Phenomena

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PMID21054107
PMCPMC2966491

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