Theory of confocal fluorescence imaging in the programmable array microscope (PAM)

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 192-198

  Verveer, P J ^a   Hanley, Q S ^a   Verbeek, P W ^b   Van Vliet, L J ^b   Jovin, T M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confocal microscope; Digital micromirror device (DMD); Optical sectioning; Point spread function; Pseudorandom sequences; Spatial light modulator; Tandem scanning microscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

CONFOCAL IMAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; DIGITAL MICROMIRROR DEVICE; OPTICAL SECTIONING; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; PSEUDORANDOM SEQUENCES; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TANDEM SCANNING MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPES;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0031945638     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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