Methods for compensation of the light attenuation with depth of images captured by a confocal microscope

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 624-635

  Čapek, Martin ^a,b   Janáček, Jiří ^a   Kubínová, Lucie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Hardware adjustment; Histogram warping; Image enhancement; Light attenuation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

CAPTURE IMAGES; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; DEEP LAYER; HARDWARE ADJUSTMENT; HISTOGRAM WARPING; LIGHT ATTENUATION; OFF-LINE METHODS; ONLINE METHODS; WARPINGS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33747886251     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20330     Document Type: Article

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