Three-dimensional optical behaviour of a confocal microscope with single illumination and detection pinhole through imaging of subresolution beads

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 130-131

  Diaspro, Alberto ^a   Annunziata, Simona ^a   Raimondo, Marco ^a   Robello, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL BEHAVIOUR; SUBRESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033561467     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19990415)45:2<130::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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