High-speed 1-frame/ms scanning confocal microscope with a microlens and Nipkow disks.
We have developed a high-speed confocal laser microscope. A microlens-array disk set in front of a pinhole-array disk improved optical efficiency more than ten times compared with that of conventional Nipkow confocal microscopy. This new microscope achieves a high-speed measurement of 1 frame/ms. We expect that it will be used for measuring biological and industrial active samples.
Tanaami
Takeo
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Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Takeo.Tanaami@jp.yokogawa.com
Otsuki
Shinya
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Tomosada
Nobuhiro
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Kosugi
Yasuhito
Y
Shimizu
Mizuho
M
Ishida
Hideyuki
H
D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D004867:Equipment Design; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D007909:Lenses; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
D002118:Calcium