Optimal detection pinhole for lowering speckle noise while maintaining adequate optical sectioning in confocal reflectance microscopes

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Glazowski, Christopher ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Milind ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Detection pinhole; Microscopy; Speckle; Turbid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SKIN;

EID: 84874982581     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.8.085001     Document Type: Article

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