Microscopy with microlens arrays: High throughput, high resolution and light-field imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13522-13531

  Orth, Antony ^a   Crozier, Kenneth ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; TISSUE;

FIELD OF VIEWS; FLUORESCENCE SCANNING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MEGAPIXELS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; PERSPECTIVE VIEWS; RAT FEMUR; REFRACTIVE MICROLENS ARRAYS;

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EID: 84863760674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013522     Document Type: Article

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