Design, assembly, and optical bench testing of a high-numerical-aperture miniature injection-molded objective for fiber-optic confocal reflectance microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2545-2554

  Chidley, Matthew D ^a   Carlson, Kristen D ^b   Richards Kortum, Rebecca R ^c   Descour, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT MODULATION; TISSUE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FIBER-OPTIC CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF) METRIC; NYQUIST FREQUENCY;

INJECTION MOLDING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LENSES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MINIATURIZATION;

EID: 33744455226     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002545     Document Type: Article

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