A light efficient optically sectioning microscope

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 114-117

  Neil, M A A ^a   Wilson, T ^a   Juskaitis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Optical sectioning

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE IMAGES; DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; FIELD IMAGES; GRID PATTERN; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL SECTIONING; SCANNING MICROSCOPE; SIMPLE METHOD; SYSTEM GEOMETRY; WIDE-FIELD;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031936685     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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