Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9 (3): 1630008, Published Online: Dec. 27, 2018  

Assessing low-light cameras with photon transfer curve method

Author Affiliations
1 Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
2 Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education Department of Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Luchang Li, Mengting Li, Zhaoning Zhang, Zhen-Li Huang. Assessing low-light cameras with photon transfer curve method[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(3): 1630008.

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Luchang Li, Mengting Li, Zhaoning Zhang, Zhen-Li Huang. Assessing low-light cameras with photon transfer curve method[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(3): 1630008.

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