Confocal microscopy by aperture correlation

J 1996

Confocal microscopy by aperture correlation

WILSON, Tony, Rimas JUŠKAITIS, Mark NEIL and Michal KOZUBEK

Basic information

Original name

Confocal microscopy by aperture correlation

Authors

WILSON, Tony, Rimas JUŠKAITIS, Mark NEIL and Michal KOZUBEK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Optics Letters, 1996, 0146-9592

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10306 Optics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/96:00001524

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

Keywords in English

confocal microscopy; SCAM

Abstract

V originále

Most confocal microscopes do not produce images in real time with nonlaser light sources. The tandem scanning confocal microscope does produce such images but, because the pinhole apertures of the Nipkov disk must be placed far apart to reduce cross talk between neighboring pinholes, only 1% or less of the light available for imaging is used. We show that, by using aperture correlation techniques and relaxing the requirement to obtain a pure confocal image directly, one can obtain real-time confocal images with a dramatically increased (25% or even 50%) light budget.

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