Compact optical design for dual-axes confocal endoscopic microscopes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6443, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mandella, Michael J ^a   Liu, Jonathan T C ^a   Piyawattanametha, Wibool ^b,c   Ra, Hyejun ^a   Hsiung, Pei Lin ^b   Wong, Larry K ^a   Solgaard, Olav ^a   Wang, Thomas D ^b   Contag, Christopher H ^b   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Confocal; Dual axes; Endoscope; Fiber; MEMS; Microscope; Scanner; SIL; Tissue

Indexed keywords

FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); HANDHELD TISSUE MICROSCOPE; SOLID IMMERSION LENS (SIL); VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MEMS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 34247351598     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.699484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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