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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Development of the Ultrashort Pulse Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Spectral Imaging System

Lee, Anthony Chien-der 2011 August 1900 (has links)
Nonlinear Optical Microscopy (NLOM) has been shown to be a valuable tool for noninvasive imaging of complex biological systems. An effective approach for multicolor molecular microscopy is simultaneous excitation of multiple fluorophores by broadband sub-10-fs pulses. This dissertation will discuss the development of two spectral imaging systems using the principles of nonlinear optical microscopy for pixel-by-pixel spectral segmentation of multiple fluorescent spectra. The first spectral system is reliant on a fiber-optic cable to transmit fluorescent signal to a spectrometer, while the second is based on a spectrometer with an aberration-corrected concave grating that is directly coupled to the microscope. A photon-counting, 16-channel multianode photomultiplier tube (PMT) is used for both systems. Custom software developed in LabVIEW controls multiple counter cards as well as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for 1 Hz acquisition of 256x256x16 spectral images. Biological specimen consisting of multicolor endothelial cells and zebrafish will be used for experimental verification. Results indicate successful spectral segmentation of multiple fluorophores with a decrease in signal-to-noise ratio in the FPGA-based imaging system.

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