Confocal Microscopy - Biomedical Optical Imaging Technologies: Design and Applications - page 213

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Fig. 6.2 A confocal reflection microscope in which the sample is a mirror

Fig. 6.3 When surface profiling, usually the intensity is sampled at only a series of discrete depth

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