Confocal theta fluorescence microscopy with annular apertures

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 126-130

  Lindek, Steffen ^a,b   Cremer, Christoph ^a   Stelzer, Ernst H K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annular apertures; Confocal fluorescence microscopy; Oblique illumination; Theta microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000415468     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000126     Document Type: Article

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