Optical-sectioning improvement in two-color excitation scanning microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 96-102

  Ibáñez López, Cristina ^a   Escobar, Isabel ^a   Saavedra, Genaro ^a   Martínez Corral, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Optical sectioning effect; Two photon excitation

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BEAM SHAPING TECHNIQUE; BEAM-SHAPING; ENERGY; ILLUMINATION BEAMS; OPTICAL SECTIONING; OPTICAL SECTIONING EFFECT; RING FILTERS; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; TWO-COLOR EXCITATION; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM SHAPING; ENERGY; EXCITATION; FILTER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL IMAGING SIMULATION; OPTICAL SECTIONING EFFECT; OPTICS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SECTION; TWO COLOR EXCITATION SCANNING MICROSCOPY; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION;

EID: 4344717892     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20073     Document Type: Article

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