Halton sampling for autofocus

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-58

  Pengo, T ^a,b   Munoz Barrutia A ^a,b   Ortiz De SolOrzano C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b TECNUN UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Automated microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Halton sampling; Interpolation; Low discrepancy sequences; Quasi random sampling

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUTO FOCUS; AUTO-FOCUS ALGORITHM; AUTO-FOCUSING; AUTOMATED MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST FUNCTIONS; FOCAL PLANE; HALTON SAMPLING; LOW-DISCREPANCY SEQUENCES; MICROSCOPY SYSTEMS; QUASI-RANDOM SAMPLING;

INTERPOLATION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOFOCUS; BLEACHING; CONTRAST; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 67650831711     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03180.x     Document Type: Article

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