Title : 
Investigation of UV LED luminescence properties for time-resolved fluorescence biomedical applications
         
        
            Author : 
Jin, Dayong ; Connally, Russell ; Piper, James
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centre for Lasers & Applications, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
UV LED native luminescence in visible wavelengths was observed to slowly decay. These luminescence properties were investigated providing fundamental understandings in time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy excited by LEDs instead of nitrogen lasers or xenon flash lamps.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fluorescence spectroscopy; light emitting diodes; spectroscopic light sources; time resolved spectroscopy; ultraviolet sources; LED; luminescence; time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy; Biomedical optical imaging; Costs; Fluorescence; Laser excitation; Light emitting diodes; Luminescence; Nitrogen; Optical pulses; Spectroscopy; Xenon;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9217-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547928