confocal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of confocal
Example Sentences
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Using Hunt's expertise in confocal imaging, the research team was able to observe lipid stores in T cells isolated from multiple types of cancers.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024
The team also used confocal microscopy, a technique that allows for higher resolution images of certain sections of the artifacts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019
Point-scanning confocal microscopes produce sharp images of subcellular structures by scanning a tightly focused laser beam across a sample, exciting fluorescence in the sample pixel by pixel.
From Nature • Nov. 25, 2019
He also invented the earliest confocal scanning microscope.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016
The potential of such a shell at any internal point is constant, and the equipotential surfaces for external space are ellipsoids confocal with the ellipsoidal shell.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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