Design of an endoscope objective lens with a high numerical aperture and a minimally-invasive outer diameter

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-64

  Rim, Cheon Seog ^a,b   Kim, Philhan ^a   Yun, Seok Hyun ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Hannam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Endoscope objective lens; Graded index lens; GRIN lens; Microendoscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547687447     PISSN: 03744884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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