Research Overview
This research deals with developing a confocal line-scanner that combines both divided-pupil and full-pupil configurations. This combined-pupil prototype is being evaluated to determine the advantages and limitations of each configuration for imaging skin, and comparison of performance to that of a commercially available standard confocal point-scanning microscope. With the combined configuration, experimental evaluation of line spread functions (LSFs), contrast, signal-to-noise ratio and imaging performance is in progress under identical optical and skin conditions. Experimental comparisons between divided-pupil and full-pupil LSFs will be used to determine imaging performance. Both results will be compared to theoretical calculations using Fourier analysis, and to the confocal point spread function (PSF).
For more information, contact Yogesh Patel, Charles A. DiMarzio