Confocal microscopy

@incollection{semwogerere05, abstract = {A confocal microscope creates sharp images of a specimen that would otherwise appear blurred when viewed with a conventional microscope. This is achieved by excluding most of the light from the specimen that is not from the microscope’s focal plane. The image has less haze and better contrast than that of a conventional microscope and represents a thin cross-section of the specimen. Thus, apart from allowing better observation of fine details it is possible to build three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of a volume of the specimen by assembling a series of thin slices taken along the vertical axis.}, author = {Semwogerere, Denis and Weeks, Eric }, booktitle = {Encylopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering}, citeulike-article-id = {1678110}, editor = {Wnek, G. and Bowlin, G. }, howpublished = {www.dekker.com}, keywords = {confocal, review}, posted-at = {2007-09-20 05:18:52}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, title = {Confocal microscopy}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - semwogerere05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1678110 TI - Confocal microscopy T2 - Encylopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering PB - Taylor and Francis N2 - A confocal microscope creates sharp images of a specimen that would otherwise appear blurred when viewed with a conventional microscope. This is achieved by excluding most of the light from the specimen that is not from the microscope’s focal plane. The image has less haze and better contrast than that of a conventional microscope and represents a thin cross-section of the specimen. Thus, apart from allowing better observation of fine details it is possible to build three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of a volume of the specimen by assembling a series of thin slices taken along the vertical axis. KW - confocal KW - review AU - Semwogerere, Denis AU - Weeks, Eric A2 - Wnek, G A2 - Bowlin, G PY - 2005/// ER -