High-resolution resonant and nonresonant fiber-scanning confocal microscope

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hendriks, Benno H W ^a   Bierhoff, Walter C J ^a   Horikx, Jeroen J L ^a   Desjardins, Adrien E ^a   Hezemans, Cees A ^a   Hooft, Gert W T ^a   Lucassen, Gerald W ^a   Mihajlovic, Nenad ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actuators; Biomedical optics; Confocal optics; Fiber optic applications; Microscopy; Scanning microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL OPTICS; CELLULAR MICROSTRUCTURE; CIRCULAR FIELD OF VIEWS; CONFOCAL IMAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CONFOCAL OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATORS; FIBER LENS; FIBER OPTIC APPLICATIONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO; NONRESONANT; OUTER DIAMETERS; RESONANT MODE; RESONANT SCANNING; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SCANNING MODE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ACTUATORS; MICROSCOPES; OPTICS; PROBES; TISSUE;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957875233     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3534781     Document Type: Article

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