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On the relationship between the modes of image formation in scanning microscopy and conventional microscopy
Author(s) -
Welford W. T.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1972.tb03749.x
Subject(s) - microscopy , optics , scanning confocal electron microscopy , scanning probe microscopy , materials science , optical microscope , scanning electron microscope , microscope , vibrational analysis with scanning probe microscopy , scanning ion conductance microscopy , physics
SUMMARY With a non‐resolvable scanning spot, scanning microscopy provides images identical to images in partially coherent illumination in a conventional microscope. If the spot is resolvable the higher spatial frequencies in the scanning image are filtered out.