Three-dimensional polarization control in microscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a   Toussaint, Kimani C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; VECTORS;

APERTURE LENS; AZIMUTHAL HARMONICS; POLARIZATION OPTICS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646346607     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.153901     Document Type: Article

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