Improving the lateral resolution in confocal fluorescence microscopy using laterally interfering excitation beams

Optics Communications

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 400-408

  Haeberlé, Olivier ^a   Simon, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Image formation; Point spread function engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COLOR; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LATERAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON EXCITATION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION ENGINEERING;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 31644439523     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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