confocal microscopy evidence

Term ID

ECO:0005587

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Definition

A type of microscopy evidence where sharp images are taken by excluding most of the light from the specimen that is not from the microscope's focal plane, thus allowing better contrast and less haze, which makes it possible to build three-dimensional reconstructions of a volume of the specimen by assembling a series of thin slices taken along the vertical axis. http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/weeks//lab/papers/ebbe05.pdf

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Ontology

Evidence Ontology