Which Fluorescence Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?
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...within a few hundred nanometers of the coverslip (4). Essentially, an optical section is achieved that...biophysics 48, 178-243 (2015). PubMed PMID: 25998828.
4. Axelrod D. Total internal reflection fluorescence...call Epi-fluorescence microscopes. (See left image above for an example image).
Point Scanning Confocal Microscopy... plane to reach the detector and all light from above or below is excluded.
Parallelized Confocal Microscopy...due to limitations in light penetration mentioned above (5).
Thick static samples
Ex: Fixed tissue sections...sectioning. Point scanning confocal microscopes (see above) often provide the highest quality images for this...