Potential of confocal microscopes to resolve in the 50-100 nm range

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3644-3646

  Schrader, M ^a   Hell, S W ^a   Van Der Voort, H T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Scientific Volume Imaging BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; GOLD; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; DECONVOLUTION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 0030577293     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117010     Document Type: Article

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