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Design and construction of an optimal illumination system for quantitative wide‐field multi‐dimensional microscopy

Kam et al., 1993

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Document ID
15452351236354438503
Author
Kam Z
Jones M
Chen H
Agard D
Sedat J
Publication year
Publication venue
Bioimaging

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A new modular transmission and fluorescence illumination system has been designed and built. The approach utilizes fiber optics to scramble the spatial intensity variations and digital monitoring of light intensity to allow accurate correction for inherent temporal instability. The …
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