Optical sectioning is the process by which a suitably designed microscope can produce clear images of focal planes deep within a thick sample. This is...

was developed to allow for fine optical sectioning of thick biological samples without the need for physical sectioning or clearing, which are both time...

a well-known problem that prevents optical sectioning using a wide-field microscope. The two-dimensional optical transfer function at the focal plane...

reconstruction of three-dimensional structures (a process known as optical sectioning) within an object. This technique is used extensively in the scientific...

achieved by adopting an optics/data-processing co-design scheme. Optical sectioning, also known as sectional image reconstruction, is the process of recovering...

microscopy technique with an intermediate-to-high optical resolution, but good optical sectioning capabilities and high speed. In contrast to epifluorescence...

Optical cross section (OCS) is a value which describes the maximum amount of optical flux reflected back to the source. The standard unit of measurement...

shift as the focus is changed. This limitation makes techniques like optical sectioning or accurate measurement on the z-axis impossible. Dark field microscopy...

pinhole apertures that give confocal microscopes their optical sectioning quality. The optical sectioning produced by multiphoton microscopes is a result of...

corresponding to the shadow. The technique is particularly suitable for optical sectioning at lower magnifications. An example of the use of HMC illumination...

more complicated design such as a confocal microscope, which uses optical sectioning to get better resolution of the fluorescence image. The specimen is...

techniques such as immunolabeling and subsequently imaged, most often by optical sectioning microscopy techniques. Tissue clearing has been applied to many areas...

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...

Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously...

Optical holography is a technique which enables an optical wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating...

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a microchip containing two or more photonic components that form a functioning circuit...

sometimes considered an illumination technique. Observation with an optical section or direct focal illumination is the most frequently applied method...

fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single...

blurred, out-of-focus background signal. Endomicroscopes achieve optical sectioning (removal of the background intensity) using the confocal principle...

camera or CCD camera. Confocal and two-photon microscopes provide optical sectioning ability so that calcium signals can be resolved in microdomains such...

areas of interest under a light microscope prior to thin sectioning for the TEM. Thin sectioning for the TEM is often done with a gem quality diamond knife...

An optical cavity, resonating cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors or other optical elements that confines light waves similarly to...

An optical disc is a flat, usually disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with...

Korber DR, Hoyle BD, Costerton JW, Caldwell DE (October 1991). "Optical sectioning of microbial biofilms". Journal of Bacteriology. 173 (20): 6558–67...

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word...

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text...

Escobar, Isabel; Saavedra, Genaro; Martinez-Corral, Manuel (2004). "Optical-sectioning improvement in two-color excitation scanning microscopy". Microscopy...

from the acoustic detection. This allows this technology to have optical sectioning capability. For point targets, the achievable axial resolution is...

Piscataway, New Jersey, where he published four patent applications on optical sectioning, Line Artifact Removal, Brightfield image segmentation and Cell Tracking...

believed[by whom?] that the concept of moving an optical fiber to produce 2D images with confocal sectioning and laser illumination was first proposed for...