Equivalence of the Huygens-Fresnel and Debye approach for the calculation of high aperture point-spread functions in the presence of refractive index mismatch

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-249

  Egner, A ^a   Hell, S W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aberration; Confocal; Fluorescence; Microscopy; Multiphoton; Point spread function; Refractive index mismatch; Resolution

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONFOCAL; FOCAL LENGTHS; FRESNEL; HIGH FRESNEL NUMBERS; HIGH-APERTURE; HUYGENS; MULTIPHOTONS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0033008278     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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