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Pinhole Effect in Confocal Microscopes
When operating a confocal microscope, or when discussing features and parameters of such a device, we inescapably mention the pinhole and its…
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Pinhole Geometry: Four Corners are Perfect
Square and hexagonal pinholes provide identical image signal levels, if the geometries are compared in a sensible manner. The amount of light passing…
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Pinhole Controls Optical Slicing
True confocal scanning microscopes (TCS) use a variable detection pinhole. Good optical sectioning tries to use just the inner core of the PSF.
Jun 21, 2011Tutorial - Loading...
Confocal Optical Section Thickness
Confocal microscopes are employed to optically slice comparably thick samples.
Jun 20, 2011Tutorial