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Multimode optical fiber based endoscopy
Jákl, Petr ; Tučková, Tereza ; Pikálek, Tomáš ; Stibůrek, Miroslav ; Ondráčková, Petra ; Cifuentes, Angel S. ; Šiler, Martin ; Uhlířová, Hana ; Traegaardh, Johanna ; Čižmár, Tomáš
Optical microscopy is a technique for microworld investigation using light waves scattered on particles in sample space. Its main disadvantage in the area of medicine, microbiology and neurology is its low penetration depth - it is very difficult to image structures deeper than approximately 1 mm inside tissue. Conventional endoscopes use refractive or GRIN lens with cross-section of several milimeters in diameter. Therefore, it is necessary to find less invasive probes to perform imaging in living organisms. Favourable alternative is to use multimode optical fiber probe with 100 micrometer diameter. This approach, however, requires advanced shaping of the wavefront in order to achieve diffraction limited imaging.
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