Improved contrast by modal illumination in scanning reflectance confocal microscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8227, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Glazowski, Christopher ^a   Zavislan, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal; Microscopy; NRDIC; phantom; pupil engineering; speckle; turbid

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RESOLUTION; CONFOCAL; FIELDS OF VIEWS; FLEXIBLE TECHNOLOGIES; NRDIC; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPIES; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; TURBID; TURBID MEDIA; TURBID PHANTOMS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; REFLECTION; SPECKLE; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TURBIDITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84859584579     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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