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Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging
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Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging

by Joel A Kubby
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
16h 6m
English
CRC Press
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3.1 Introduction: Imaging Properties and
Point Spread Function (PSF)
is chapter briey mentions some aspects of the scalar theory* of the diraction of light and image
formation. One of the main results is the point spread function (PSF) of a lens which in turn is impor-
tant in the context of lateral and axial resolution and the eects of aberrations in confocal microscopy.
If we want to understand and model an imaging system, we have to ask what optical eld (or intensity
distribution/image) it will produce for a given input (object). In confocal microscopy we are interested
in the quality of the focal spot. It turns out that the PSF, wh ...
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