Measurement and restoration of the point spread function of fluorescence confocal microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 172-176

  Yoo, H ^a   Song, I ^a   Gweon, D G ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Deconvolution; Fluorescence microscopy; High resolution; Point spread function; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RESTORATION;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; DECONVOLUTIONS; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; MEASURING PERFORMANCE; OBJECTIVE LENS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; RESTORATION TECHNIQUES;

DECONVOLUTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HELIUM NEON LASER; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33645227140     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2006.01556.x     Document Type: Article

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