Effects of index-mismatch-induced spherical aberration in pump-probe microscopic image formation

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4220-4227

  Fwu, Peter T ^a   Wang, Po Hsiang ^a   Tung, Chi Kuan ^a   Dong, Chen Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY (FM); NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); SIGNAL STRENGTH; SPHERICAL ABERRATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 22944450856     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004220     Document Type: Article

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