Automated, portable, low-cost bright-field and fluorescence microscope with autofocus and autoscanning capabilities

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2581-2588

  Schaefer, Samuel ^a   Boehm, Stephen A ^a   Chau, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COSTS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; MICROSCOPE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DISK DRIVES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SOFTWARE AUTOMATION; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS;

MICROSCOPES;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LENSES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861403590     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.002581     Document Type: Article

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