Specimen-induced distortions in light microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-102

  Schwertner, M ^a,b   Booth, M J ^a   Wilson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Measurement accuracy; Multiphoton microscopy; Spatial distortions; Specimen induced aberrations

Indexed keywords

LENSES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

3-D MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; IMAGING PROPERTIES; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL-; SPATIAL DISTORTION; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; SPECIMEN-INDUCED ABERRATION;

ABERRATIONS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34848819213     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01827.x     Document Type: Article

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