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| Foundations of Confocal Scanned Imaging in Light Microscopy | |
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| Fundamental Limits in Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Quantitative Fluorescence Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) | |
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| The Pixilated Image | |
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| Laser Sources for Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Non-Laser Light Sources | |
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| Objective Lenses for Confocal Microscopy | |
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| The Specimen Illumination Path and Its Effect on Image Quality | |
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| The Intermediate Optical System of Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscopes | |
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| Intermediate Optics in Nipkow Disk Microscopes | |
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| The Role of the Pinhole in Confocal Imaging System | |
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| Photon Detectors for Confocal Microscopy | |
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| The Collection, Processing, and Display of Digital Three-Dimensional Images of Biological Specimens | |
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| Visualization Systems for Multidimensional CLSM Images | |
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| Mapping and Measuring Surfaces Using Reflection Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Fluorophores for Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Image Contrast in Confocal Light Microscopy | |
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| Guiding Principles of Specimen Reservation for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy | |
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| Confocal Microscopy of Living Cells | |
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| Lens Aberrations in Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy | |
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| Real-Time Stereo (3D) Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Signal-to-Noise in Confocal Microscopes | |
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| Comparison of Wide-Field/Deconvolution and Confocal Microscopy for 3D Imaging | |
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| Light Microscopic Images Reconstructed by Maximum Likelihood Deconvolution | |
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| Direct View Confocal Imaging Systems Using a Slit Aperture | |
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| Two New High-Resolution Confocal Fluorescence Microscopies (4pi, Theta) with One- and Two-Photon Excitation | |
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| Optical Considerations at Ultraviolet Wavelengths in Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Two-Photon Molecular Excitation in Laser-Scanning Microscopy | |
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| Video-Rate Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Confocal Microscopy with Transmitted Light | |
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| Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, A New Tool in Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Imaging Immunogold Labels with Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Fiberoptics in Confocal Microscopy | |
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| Comparison of Various Optical Sectioning Methods | |
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| Mass Storage and Hard Copy | |
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| Tutorial on Practical Confocal Microscopy and Use of the Confocal Test Specimen | |
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| Bibliography of Confocal Microscopes | |
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| Appendix I: Optical Units | |
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| Appendix 2: Light Paths of Current Commercial Confocal Light Microscopes for Biology | |
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| Index | |