Gigapixel fluorescence microscopy with a water immersion microlens array

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2361-2368

  Orth, Antony ^a   Crozier, Kenneth ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PIXELS; TISSUE;

CENTIMETER-SCALE; COVERSLIPS; FLUORESCENT IMAGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT; IMAGE SAMPLES; MICRO WELLS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; MICROSCOPY SYSTEMS; PLASTIC SUPPORTS; TISSUE SAMPLES; WATER IMMERSION; WELL PLATES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MINIATURIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874078454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002361     Document Type: Article

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