Image formation by linear and nonlinear digital scanned light-sheet fluorescence microscopy with Gaussian and Bessel beam profiles.
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SUBMITTER: Olarte OE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3395476 | biostudies-other | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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