Subwavelength size determination by spatially modulated illumination virtual microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 6651-6659

  Failla, Antonio Virgilio ^a   Cavallo, Antonio ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS;

SPATIALLY MODULATED ILLUMINATION (SMI);

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0036848659     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006651     Document Type: Article

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