Fluorescence volume imaging with an axicon: Simulation study based on scalar diffraction method

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 7236-7245

  Zheng, Juanjuan ^a   Yang, Yanlong ^a   Lei, Ming ^a   Yao, Baoli ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Ye, Tong ^a,b  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84868017479     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.007236     Document Type: Article

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