Agile optical confocal microscopy instrument architectures for high flexibility imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 77-88

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a   Bokhari, Amana ^a  

^a Nuonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D Imaging; Confocal Microscopy; Fiber optics; Instrument

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; FLOW PATTERNS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

3-D IMAGING; ADAPTIVE MIRRORS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 12144259372     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.529073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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