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Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics
A NIH research resource center for biomedical fluorescence spectroscopy at the University of California, Irvine

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Acronyms and initialisms used in publications of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD):

1D One Dimensional
2D Two Dimensional
3D Three Dimensional
A Adenosine (nucleoside)
A Alanine (amino acid)
A Ampere (unit of electric current)
AA Amino Acid
AA Anti Aliasing
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AC Alternating Current
Ac Actinium (chemical element)
AC Air Conditioning
ACC Anterior Cingulate Cortex
ACF Auto Correlation Function
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACS American Chemical Society
AD Active Directory
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADP Adenosine diphosphate (nucleotide)
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AF Anisotropic Filtering
Ag Silver (chemical element)
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AHE Adaptive Histogram Equalization
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
AK Adenylate Kinase
AKA Also Known As
Al Aluminium (chemical element)
Ala Alanine (amino acid)
AM Ante Meridiem
Am Americium (chemical element)
AMD Advanced Micro Devices (company)
AMP Adenosine monophosphate (nucleotide)
AMS American Mathematical Society
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANT Attention Network Test
AOI Angle of Incidence
AOM Acousto Optical Modulator
AOTF Acousto Optical Tunable Filter
APA American Psychological Association
APD Avalanche Photodiode
API Application Programming Interface
APS American Physical Society
Ar Argon (chemical element)
Arg Arginine (amino acid)
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
As Arsenic (chemical element)
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASM Assembly (programming language)
ASM Angular Spectrum Method
Asn Asparagine (amino acid)
ASP Active Server Page
Asp Aspartic Acid (amino acid)
AST Abstract Syntax Tree
At Astatine (chemical element)
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface
ATI Array Technologies Incorporated (company)
ATLAS Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM Automated Teller Machine
ATP Adenosine triphosphate (nucleotide)
ATR Attenuated Total Reflectance
ATT Adipose Tissue Thickness
Au Gold (chemical element)
AU Airy Unit
AU Arbitrary Unit
AUX Auxiliary
AV Audio Visual
AVI Audio Video Interleave
B Boron (chemical element)
B&H Becker and Hickl
Ba Barium (chemical element)
BAM Big Awesome Microscope
BBM Brush Border Membrane
BC Blood Cholesterol
BDFL Benevolent Dictator for Life
Be Beryllium (chemical element)
BF Blood Flow
Bh Bohrium (chemical element)
BH Breath Holding
Bi Bismuth (chemical element)
BIF Built In Function
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
Bk Berkelium (chemical element)
BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprogram
BLI Beckman Laser Institute (university of california, irvine)
BME Biomedical Engineering
BMP Bitmap
BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BoF Birds of a Feather
BOLD Blood Oxygen Level Dependent
BOM Byte Order Mark
bp Base Pair
BPNN Backpropagation Neural Network
bps Bits per Second
BPTI Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
Bq Becquerel (unit of activity of a radionuclide)
Br Bromine (chemical element)
BSA Bovine Serum Albumin
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSOD Bovine Erythrocyte Cu, Zn Superoxide Dismutase
BSoD Blue Screen of Death
BW Bandwidth
C Cytidine (nucleoside)
C Cysteine (amino acid)
C Carbon (chemical element)
C Coulomb (unit of electric charge, quantity of electricity)
CA California
Ca Calcium (chemical element)
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAL Client Access License
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CaM Calmodulin
CAM Cell Adhesion Molecule
cAMP Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CARS Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
CAS Computer Algebra System
CAT Computed Axial Tomography
CCBS Center for Complex Biological Systems (university of california, irvine)
CCDC Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
CCF Cross Correlation Function
CCFT Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technologies
CD Compact Disc
CD Circular Dichroism
Cd Cadmium (chemical element)
cd Candela (unit of luminous intensity)
CDC Child Development Center (university of california, irvine)
CDC Center for Disease Control
CDF Cumulative Distribution Function
CDP Cytidine Diphosphate (nucleotide)
Ce Cerium (chemical element)
CEO Chief Executive Officer
Cf Californium (chemical element)
CFD Constant Fraction Discriminator
CFL Compact Fluorescent Lighting
CFM Confocal Fluorescence Microscope
CFP Cyan Fluorescent Protein
CFS Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy (university of maryland at baltimore)
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGR Chaos Game Representation
Chl Chlorophyll
CHO Chinese Hamster Ovary
CIF Crystallographic Information File
CITES Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (university of illinois at urbana-champaign)
Cl Chlorine (chemical element)
CLAHE Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization
CLI Command Line Interface
CLR Common Language Runtime
CLSM Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopes
Cm Curium (chemical element)
CMC Critical Micelle Concentration
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
CMP Cytidine Monophosphate (nucleotide)
CMV Cytomegalovirus
CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Key
CNC Computer Numerical Control
CNL Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
Co Cobalt (chemical element)
CoA Coenzyme A
COM Component Object Model
COM Center of Mass
CoQ Coenzyme Q
CPK Corey-Pauling-Koltun
CPM Counts per Minute
CPM Currywurst Pommes Mayo
CPU Central Processing Unit
Cr Chromium (chemical element)
CR Carriage Return
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRUD Create Read Update and Delete
Cs Caesium (chemical element)
CS Computer Science
CSF Cerebrospinal Fluid
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Content Scrambling System
CSV Comma Separated Values
CT Charge Transfer
CT Computed Tomography
CTP Cytidine Triphosphate (nucleotide)
Cu Copper (chemical element)
CVS Concurrent Versioning System
CVSD Continuously Variable Slope Delta
CW Continuous Wave
CWL Center Wavelength
Cys Cysteine (amino acid)
D Aspartic Acid (amino acid)
dA Deoxyadenosine (nucleoside)
DA Dopamine
dADP Deoxyadenosine diphosphate (nucleotide)
dAMP Deoxyadenosine monophosphate (nucleotide)
DANCA 4-[2'-(dimethylamino)-6'-naphthoyl]cyclohexanecarboxylic acid
DAPI 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole
DAQ Data Acquisition
dATP Deoxyadenosine triphosphate (nucleotide)
Db Dubnium (chemical element)
DBC Developmental Biology Center (university of california, irvine)
DBMS Database Management Systems
DC Direct Current
dC Deoxycytidine (nucleoside)
dCDP Deoxycytidine diphosphate (nucleotide)
dCMP Deoxycytidine monophosphate (nucleotide)
dCTP Deoxycytidine triphosphate (nucleotide)
DDM Double-Differential Method
DDR Double Data Rate
DDS Digital Data Storage
DEBP Diethynylbiphenyl
deg Degree
DEMUX Demultiplexer
DFD Digital Frequency Domain
DFS Distributed File System
dG Deoxyguanosine (nucleoside)
dGDP Deoxyguanosine diphosphate (nucleotide)
dGMP Deoxyguanosine monophosphate (nucleotide)
dGTP Deoxyguanosine triphosphate (nucleotide)
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHM Digital Holographic Microscopy
DIB Device Independent Bitmap
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung (german institute for standardization)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMPC L-α-Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine
DMPG L-α-Dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNS Domain Name System
DOB Date of Birth
DoD Department of Defense
DoE Department of Energy
DOF Depth of Field
DOI Digital Object Identifier
DOM Document Object Model
DOS Diffuse Optical Tomography
DOT Diffuse Optical Tomography
DPF Differential Pathlength Factor
DPI Dots per Inch
DPPC L-α-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
DRM Digital Rights Management
DRY Don't Repeat Yourself
ds Double Stranded
DSCM Disk Scanning Confocal Microscope
DSE Debye-Stokes-Einstein
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSM Disoders Diagnostic Criteria
DSP Digital Signal Processing
dT Deoxythymidine (nucleoside)
dTDP Deoxythymidine diphosphate (nucleotide)
dTMP Deoxythymidine monophosphate (nucleotide)
DTP Desktop Publishing
dTTP Deoxythymidine triphosphate (nucleotide)
dU Deoxyuridine (nucleoside)
dUDP Deoxyuridine diphosphate (nucleotide)
dUMP Deoxyuridine monophosphate (nucleotide)
dUTP Deoxyuridine triphosphate (nucleotide)
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
DVI Digital Visual Interface
DWS Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy
Dy Dysprosium (chemical element)
E Glutamic Acid (amino acid)
EAP Endothelial Adhesive Platforms
ECG Electrocardiogram
EDTA Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
EEG Electroencephalogram
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EF Elongation Factor
EGFP Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein
EIA Enzyme Immunoassay Test
EKG Electrocardiogram
ELISA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
EM Electromagnetism
EM Electron Microscope
EMCCD Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Device
EOL End Of Line
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
Er Erbium (chemical element)
EROS Event-Related Optical Signals
ERP Electrically Recorded Potential
ERP Event Related Potential
Es Einsteinium (chemical element)
ESR Electron Spin Resonance
Eu Europium (chemical element)
EXAFS Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
F Phenylalanine (amino acid)
F Fluorine (chemical element)
F Farad (unit of capacitance)
FACS Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting
FAD Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FBP Flow Based Programming
FC Free Cholesterol
FCA Fluorescence Cumulant Analysis
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCCS Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy
FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
FD Frequency Domain
FDA Fully Differential Amplifier
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDPM Frequency Domain Photon Migration
Fe Iron (chemical element)
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FIDA Fluorescence Intensity Distribution Analysis
FIFO First In First Out
FIONA Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy
FISH Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
FITC Fluorescein Isothiocyanate
Fl Fluorescein
FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLI Fluorescence Lifetime-resolved Imaging
FLIM Fluorescence Lifetime-resolved Imaging Microscopy
FLOP Fluorescence Lifetime Operating Program
FLOPS Floating Point Operations per Second
FLUM Fluorescence Lifetime User Manual
FLV Flash Video
FM Frequency Modulation
Fm Fermium (chemical element)
fMRI Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Fn Fibronectin
FOSS Free and Open-Source Software
FP Functional Programming
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPS Frames per Second
FPU Floating Point Unit
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
Fr Francium (chemical element)
FRAP Flourescence Recovery After Photobleaching
FRET Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations
FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
G Guanosine (nucleoside)
G Glycine (amino acid)
GA Genetic Algorithm
Ga Gallium (chemical element)
Gbps Gigabits per second
GC Garbage Collection
GCC GNU compiler collection
Gd Gadolinium (chemical element)
GdHCl Guanidine Hydrochloride
GDP Guanosine diphosphate (nucleotide)
Ge Germanium (chemical element)
GE General Electric (company)
GFP Green Fluorescent Protein
GIL Global Interpreter Lock
GL Graphics Library
Gln Glutamine (amino acid)
GLSA Global Least Squares Analysis
Glu Glutamic Acid (amino acid)
Gly Glycine (amino acid)
GmbH Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
GMP Guanosine monophosphate (nucleotide)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNU GNU is Not Unix
GP Generalized Polarization
GPC Gaussian-Pixel Convolution
GPC Generalised Phase Contrast
GPI Glycosylphosphatidylinositol
GPL GNU General Public License
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GSL Glycosphingolipid
GSL GNU Scientific Library
GTK The GIMP Toolkit
GTP Guanosine triphosphate (nucleotide)
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUV Giant Unilamellar Vesicle
Gy Gray (unit of absorbed dose, specific energy, kerma)
H Histidine (amino acid)
H Hydrogen (chemical element)
H Henry (unit of inductance)
Hb Hemoglobin
HD High Definition
HD Hard Drive
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HDL High Density Lipoprotein
HDR High Dynamic Range
He Helium (chemical element)
Hf Hafnium (chemical element)
Hg Mercury (chemical element)
HG Harmonic Generator
HHb Deoxyhemoglobin
HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute
His Histidine (amino acid)
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Ho Holmium (chemical element)
HOMO Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
HP Hewlett Packard (company)
HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography
HPM High Performance Microscope
HPTLC High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography
HR Heart Rate
Hs Hassium (chemical element)
HSL Hue Saturation Lightness
HSOD Human Superoxide Dismutase
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTT Huntingtin
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HUMO Highest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital
HUT Head-up Tilt
Hz Herz (unit of frequency)
I Isoleucine (amino acid)
I Iodine (chemical element)
I/O In Out
IBM International Business Machines Corporation (company)
IC Integrated Circuit
ICAM Intercellular Adhesion Molecule
ICD Installable Client Driver
ICG Indocyanine Green
ICS Image Correlation Spectroscopy
ICT Intramolecular Charge Transfer
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFS Iterated Function System
Ig Immunoglobulin
IGB Institute for Genomic Biology (university of illinois at urbana-champaign)
IGB Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (university of california, irvine)
IgG Immunoglobulin G
IIS Internet Information Server
Ile Isoleucine (amino acid)
ILK Integrin Linked Kinase
IM Instant Messenger
IMB Institute for Molecular Biotechnology
In Indium (chemical element)
Inc Incorporated
INF Infinite
INF Information File
IP Internet Protocol
IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
IPC Inter-Process Communication
IR Infrared
Ir Iridium (chemical element)
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRF Instrument Response Function
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISC Intersystem Crossing
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISS Instrumenzione Scientificia Sperimentale (company)
IT Information Technology
IV Intravenous
J Joule (unit of energy, work, quantity of heat)
JDK Java Development Kit
JIT Just in Time
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE Java Runtime Environment
JS JavaScript
K Lysine (amino acid)
K Potassium (chemical element)
K Kelvin (unit of thermodynamic temperature)
kat Katal (unit of catalytic activity)
KB Knowledge Base
KDC Key Distribution Center
kg Kilogram (unit of mass)
kICS k-space Image Correlation Spectroscopy
Kr Krypton (chemical element)
KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse
L Leucine (amino acid)
La Lanthanum (chemical element)
LAMMP Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (university of california, irvine)
LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP
LAN Local Area Network
LAPACK Linear Algebra PACKage
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LAURDAN 6-dodecanoyl-2-dimethylamino-naphthalene
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCTF Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDH Lactic Dehydrogenase
Leu Leucine (amino acid)
LF Line Feed
LFD Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (university of california, irvine)
Li Lithium (chemical element)
LIFO Last In First Out
LLC Limited Liability Company
lm Lumen (unit of luminous flux)
LOMO Lowest Occupied Molecular Orbital
LP Long Pass
LPDS Lipoprotein Deficient Serum
LPT Line Print Terminal
Lr Lawrencium (chemical element)
LSCM Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope
LSM Laser Scanning Microscope
LSQ Least Squares
LTO Linear Tape-Open
Lu Lutetium (chemical element)
LUMO Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital
lx Lux (unit of illuminance)
Lys Lysine (amino acid)
M Methionine (amino acid)
m Meter (unit of length)
MAC Media Access Control
Mbps Megabits per second
MCA Middle Cerebral Artery
MCSB Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (university of california, irvine)
Md Mendelevium (chemical element)
MD Molecular Dynamics
MD Medicinae Doctor (doctor of medicine)
MEF Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts
MEG Magnetic Encephalography
MEM Maximum Entropy Method
MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Met Methionine (amino acid)
MFD Multiparameter Fluorescence Detection
Mg Magnesium (chemical element)
MIA Multivariate Image Analysis
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIP Multum in Parvo
MIPS Milli