Depth of focus extended microscope configuration for imaging of incorporated groups of molecules, DNA constructs and clusters inside bacterial cells

Optics Communications

Volumn 282, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2495-2501

  Fessl, Tomas ^a,b   Ben Yaish, Shai ^c   Vacha, Frantisek ^a,b   Adamec, Frantisek ^a,b   Zalevsky, Zeev ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fourier transform optics; Optical sensing

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BACTERIAL CELLS; DEPTH OF FOCUS; HIGH-NA; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; LATERAL RESOLUTIONS; MICROSCOPE SYSTEMS; OBJECTIVE LENS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTICAL SENSING; REAL-TIME TECHNIQUES; SINGLE MOLECULES; SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING; STEADY STATE;

BACTERIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; DNA; GENES; MICROSCOPES; MOLECULES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 65649112533     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2009.03.044     Document Type: Article

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