High numerical aperture microendoscope objective for a fiber confocal reflectance microscope

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2409-2420

  Kester, Robert T ^a   Tkaczyk, Tomasz S ^a   Descour, Michael R ^a   Christenson, Todd ^b   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HT Micro   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FIBER CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPE; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE MICROENDOSCOPE; HYDRAULIC SUCTION LINES; PRECANCEROUS CELLS;

ENDOSCOPY;

EID: 33847745013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002409     Document Type: Article

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