Three-dimensional coherent transfer function for a confocal microscope with two D-shaped pupils

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 810-817

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

COHERENT TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; CONFOCAL SCANNING MICROSCOPY; IN-FIBER; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATIONS; REFLECTION MODES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LENSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61449124111     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000810     Document Type: Article

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