Dark-field imaging with cylindrical-vector beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 470-479

  Biss, David P ^a,b   Youngworth, Kathleen S ^a,c   Brown, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPES; MICROSTRUCTURE; VECTORS;

CYLINDRICAL-VECTOR BEAMS; DARK-FIELD ILLUMINATION; DARK-FIELD IMAGING; SPECULAR LIGHT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644597897     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000470     Document Type: Article

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