Effect of half-stop lateral misalignment on imaging of dark-field and stereoscopic confocal microscopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 1996, Pages 6732-6739

  Torok P ^a   Laczik, Z ^b   Sheppard, C J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPES; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

COHERENT TRANSFER FUNCTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DARK FIELD IMAGING; OBJECTIVE LENS; STEREOSCOPIC CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 0030400765     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006732     Document Type: Article

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