Light travels through the sample under a conventional microscope as far into the specimen as it can penetrate, while a confocal microscope only focuses a smaller beam of light at one narrow …

Confocal microscopy offers several advantages over conventional optical microscopy, including shallow depth of field, elimination of out-of-focus glare, and the ability to collect serial optical …

The primary functions of a confocal microscope are to produce a point source of light and reject out-of-focus light, which provides the ability to image deep into tissues with high resolution, …

In general microscopes that uniformly illuminate the entire field of view (wide-field microscopes), light generated out of focus is superimposed as so-called blur, whereas confocal microscopes …

Confocal microscopy is a type of fluorescence microscopy which uses a laser to excite fluorescence from fluorophores used to label different subsets of a specimen.

The explosive growth and development of the confocal approach is a direct result of a renaissance in optical microscopy that has been largely fueled by advances in modern optical …

Apr 11, 2024 · The concept of confocal microscopy was initially developed by Marvin Minsky in the 1950s, at Harvard University with an aim of viewing the neural network without staining the …

Jan 23, 2025 · Confocal microscopy offers some pretty cool perks compared to regular optical microscopes. For starters, it gives you a razor-thin focus depth, cuts out that annoying blurry …

Jan 16, 2025 · Confocal microscopes are essential tools in scientific research and industrial applications, offering unparalleled imaging precision and clarity. In this guide, we’ll explore …

The links provided in this section from the Olympus Microscopy Resource Center web site offer tutorials, instrumentation, application notes, technical support, glossaries, and reference …