Studying the illumination puzzle towards an isotropic increase of optical resolution

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6861, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cella, Francesca ^a   Ronzitti, Emiliano ^a,b   Vicidomini, Giuseppe ^a   Mondal, Parta Pratim ^a   Diaspro, Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Superresolution, filters; Two photon excitation microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GELATION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROSCOPES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; WAVE FILTERS;

BINARY FILTERS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; ILLUMINATION BEAMS; IN ORDER; INTERFERING BEAMS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL (MD); OPTICAL FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL SCHEMES; PHASE PLATES; PHASE-ONLY; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF); PUPIL FILTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TWO PHOTON EXCITATION (TPE);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 42149152696     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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