Confocal theta line-scanning microscope for imaging human tissues

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1843-1851

  Dwyer, Peter J ^a,b   Di Marzio, Charles A ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Milind ^c,d  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSCOPES; SKIN; TISSUE;

CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN EPIDERMIS; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LINEAR DETECTOR ARRAYS; OBJECTIVE LENS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL SECTIONS; SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

SCANNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH MUCOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOUTH MUCOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN;

EID: 34248229595     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001843     Document Type: Article

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