Surface-plasmon microscopy with a two-piece solid immersion lens: Bright and dark fields

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 7977-7986

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Pitter, Mark C ^a   Liu, Shugang ^a   See, Chungwah ^a   Somekh, Mike G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PROTEINS;

BRIGHT FIELD; PROTEIN MONOLAYERS; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; SURFACE PLASMON IMAGING;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 33845580046     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007977     Document Type: Article

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