Thursday June 30, 2005
Friday July 1, 2005
| "Using Out-of-Focus Light in Confocal Microscopy - The Partitioned Detection Aperture Confocal Microscope"
Mr. Brynmor Davis
Boston University The performance of a confocal microscope using a small array of
detectors instead of a single pinhole is examined. Simulated data
sets from the detector array are passed through linear filters and
summed to give a single set of data with superior noise
characteristics. Reconstructions from these data are compared to
those from conventional confocal systems with a variety of pinhole
sizes. The reconstruction error is examined for each instrument as a
function of signal strength. At all signal levels and all pinhole
sizes, the multi-element system is seen to outperform the standard
single-pinhole instruments. |
