A demonstration of the effectiveness of a single aberration correction per optical slice in beam scanned optically sectioning microscopes

Micron

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 318-323

  Poland, Simon P ^a   Wright, Amanda J ^a   Cobb, Stuart ^b   Vijverberg, Jacob C ^a   Girkin, John M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aberration correction; Adaptive optics; Biological imaging; Confocal microscopy; Multiphoton microscopy

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BEAM SCANNING; BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; DEFORMABLE MEMBRANE MIRRORS; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL ABERRATION; OPTICAL SECTIONS; OPTICAL SLICES; RAT BRAIN TISSUE;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOBLEACHING;

PIXELS;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; OPTICS; PROCEDURES; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RATS;

EID: 79952042709     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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