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Optical sectioning by two-pinhole confocal fluorescence microscopy.

Manuel Martínez-corralVassilios SarafisMaría Teresa Caballero CaballeroC. Ibáñez-lópez

subject

Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopyMaterials scienceMicroscopy ConfocalOptical sectioningbusiness.industryConfocalScanning confocal electron microscopyGeneral Physics and AstronomyCell BiologyModels TheoreticalImage Enhancementlaw.inventionOpticsMicroscopy FluorescenceStructural BiologyConfocal microscopylawLight sheet fluorescence microscopySubtraction TechniqueMicroscopyGeneral Materials SciencePinhole (optics)business

description

A two-pinhole axially superresolving confocal fluorescence imaging system is presented. Based on the concept of subtractive incoherent imaging, the system described here is equipped with a zero-focus complex-transmittance pupil filter in one of the collector paths. The optical sectioning capacity of the system is 25% superior to that of a free-pupil one-pinhole instrument.

10.1016/s0968-4328(03)00057-xhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12932775