Ray tracing analysis of inclined illumination techniques

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 18940-18948

  Sinkó, József ^a   Szabó, Gábor ^a   Erdélyi, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ILLUMINATION METHOD; ILLUMINATION TECHNIQUES; MERIT FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; RAY-TRACING METHOD; SIGNAL LEVEL; SUPER RESOLUTION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84906084072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018940     Document Type: Article

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