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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confocal microscope

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 ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024

Confocal immunofluorescence pictures were taken with a Leica SP5 confocal microscope and 3–5-μm-thick optical sections were collected.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

Figure 27.54 A confocal microscope provides three-dimensional images using pinholes and the extended depth of focus as described by wave optics.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

A confocal microscope charts in exquisite detail variations in the depths of the grooves as small as a tenth of a micrometer, or about 1/250 the thickness of a human hair.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2011