Determining the optimal imaging position in the tomographic interference microscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7513, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liang, Xue ^a   Jian cheng, Lai ^a   Zhen hua, Li ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Focal shift; Histogram; Tomographic interference microscopy

Indexed keywords

FOCAL SHIFTS; GAUSSIAN CURVES; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE SHARPNESS; INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY; LIVE CELL; NON-CONTACT; OPTIMAL IMAGING; PARALLEL BEAMS; PEAK VALUES; TISSUE SAMPLES; TOMOGRAPHIC;

FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 73849129968     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.837106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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