Adapting a compact confocal microscope system to a two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging architecture

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 196-205

  Diaspro, Alberto ^a   Corosu, Mirko ^a   Ramoino, Paola ^a   Robello, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Helical biostructure; Single pinhole confocal microscopy; Three dimensional point spread function; Two photon microscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE;

3D IMAGING; BIOSTRUCTURES; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CONFOCAL SCANNING; HELICAL BIOSTRUCTURE; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SINGLE-PINHOLE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTRA'S; THREE- DIMENSIONAL POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

PHOTONS;

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; FLUORESCEIN; FURA 2; INDO 1; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; ELEDONE CIRRHOSA; OCTOPUS;

EID: 0033230197     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19991101)47:3<196::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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