Reduction of spherical-aberration impact in microscopy by wavefront coding

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13810-13818

  Saavedra, G ^a   Escobar, I ^b   Martinez Cuenca R ^a   Sanchez Ortiga E ^a   Martinez Corral M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING;

DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; SCANNING MICROSCOPE; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SPECIMEN STRUCTURES; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; WAVE-FRONT CODING;

ASPHERICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 68349158787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013810     Document Type: Article

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