Fast volumetric phase-gradient imaging in thick samples

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1152-1162

  Giese, J David ^a   Ford, Tim N ^a   Mertz, Jerome ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-ILLUMINATION; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD; IMAGE FORMATION THEORY; OPTICAL SECTIONING; SINGLE EXPOSURE; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BRAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LENSES; LIGHTING; MICE; MICROSCOPY; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY;

EID: 84892633369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.001152     Document Type: Article

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