Improved sectioning in a slit scanning confocal microscope

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1813-1815

  Poher, Vincent ^a   Kennedy, Gordon T ^a   Manning, Hugh B ^a   Owen, Dylan M ^a   Zhang, Haoxiang X ^b   Gu, Erdan ^b   Dawson, Martin D ^b   French, Paul M W ^a   Neil, Mark A A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSCOPES;

ARRAY DETECTORS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; LINE DETECTORS; OUT-OF FOCUS IMAGE; OUT-OF-FOCUS LIGHT; SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; SLIT SCANNING;

SCANNING;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POLLEN; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLLEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 50549086262     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.001813     Document Type: Article

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