confocal microscope

British  

noun

1. a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained

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Example Sentences

It is blocking out the light so she can work at a highly-sensitive confocal microscope that uses lasers to illuminate brain samples.

From BBC

Then, using a confocal microscope, the scientists filmed how the neurons reacted to changes in salt concentrations.

From Science Daily

In studies where they used a confocal microscope to watch myelin form in live zebra fish, researchers in David Lyons’s lab at the University of Edinburgh and in Bruce Appel’s lab at the University of Colorado Denver observed that when the release of small sacs containing neurotransmitters from axons is inhibited, often the first few wraps of myelin slip off, and the oligodendrocyte aborts the entire process.

From Scientific American

A researcher uses a confocal microscope equipped for super-resolution and fluorescence imaging at the University of Bristol, UK.Credit:

From Nature

Researchers at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain created this time lapse of a developing fruit fly larva under a confocal microscope, each cell illuminated by a fluorescent protein.

From Scientific American