The divided aperture technique for microscopy through scattering media

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 17031-17038

  Sheppard, Colin J R ^a   Wei, Gong ^a   Ke, Si ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

D-SHAPE; DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING MEDIA;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 54249143939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017031     Document Type: Article

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