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Signal-to-noise ratio in confocal microscopes

Sheppard et al., 2006

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11258784795158352588
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Sheppard C
Gan X
Gu M
Roy M
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Handbook of biological confocal microscopy

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Strictly, to obtain true confocal imaging the detector pinhole must be infinitesimally small, which would of course result in a vanishingly weak image signal. On the other hand, a very large pinhole degrades the confocal imaging effect. So in practice it is necessary to adopt …
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