Linear astigmatism of confocal off-axis reflective imaging systems and its elimination

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 484-488

  Chang, Seunghyuk ^a   Lee, Jung Hoon ^a   Kim, Suk Pil ^a   Kim, Hun ^a   Kim, Won Joo ^a   Song, Ihun ^a   Park, Youngsoo ^a  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; RAY TRACING; THEOREM PROVING;

CONFOCAL OFF-AXIS TWO-MIRROR SYSTEMS; IMAGE PLANE; LINEAR ASTIGMATISM; REFLECTIVE IMAGING SYSTEM;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644602475     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000484     Document Type: Article

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