- In geometry,
confocal means having the same foci:
confocal conic sections. For an
optical cavity consisting of two mirrors,
confocal means that they share...
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Confocal microscopy, most
frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or
laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an
optical imaging technique...
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called confocal if they have the same foci.
Because ellipses and
hyperbolas have two foci,
there are
confocal ellipses,
confocal hyperbolas and
confocal mixtures...
- two-dimensional
orthogonal coordinate system in
which the
coordinate lines are
confocal ellipses and hyperbolae. The two foci F 1 {\displaystyle F_{1}} and F 2...
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Confocal endoscopy, or
confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE), is a
modern imaging technique that
allows the
examination of real-time
microscopic and histological...
- like an
epifluorescence microscope or a more
complicated design such as a
confocal microscope,
which uses
optical sectioning to get
better resolution of the...
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where the area of the
cross section is doubled. A
related parameter is the
confocal parameter, b,
which is
twice the
Rayleigh length. The
Rayleigh length is...
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Scanning confocal electron microscopy (SCEM) is an
electron microscopy technique analogous to
scanning confocal optical microscopy (SCOM). In this technique...
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quadratic coordinate surfaces, the
ellipsoidal coordinate system is
based on
confocal quadrics. The
Cartesian coordinates ( x , y , z ) {\displaystyle (x,y,z)}...
- 3rd print ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 44–48 (Table 1.11). ISBN 978-0-387-18430-2.
MathWorld description of
confocal paraboloidal coordinates...
