Divided-aperture technique for fluorescence confocal microscopy through scattering media

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 752-757

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; INTEGRATED INTENSITIES; OPTICAL TRANSFORM FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING MEDIA; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO; TRANSVERSE RESOLUTION;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 76649137297     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000752     Document Type: Article

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