Design of a high-numerical-aperture miniature microscope objective for an endoscopic fiber confocal reflectance microscope

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 4603-4610

  Liang, Chen ^a   Sung, Kung Bin ^b   Richards Kortum, Rebecca R ^b   Descour, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS;

ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICS;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPES;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0036667315     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004603     Document Type: Article

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