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Video-rate Scanning Confocal Microscopy and Microendoscopy
Published on: October 20, 2011
Programmable imaging with two-axis micromirrors
R Andrew Hicks1, Vasileios T Nasis, Timothy P Kurzweg
1Department of Mathematics, Drexel University, PA 19104, USA. ahicks@math.drexel.edu
Abstract:
We demonstrate a means of creating a digital image by using a two-axis tilt micromirror to scan a scene. For each different orientation we extract a single gray scale value from the mirror and combine them to form a single composite image. This allows one to choose the distribution of the samples, and so in principle a variable resolution image could be created. We demonstrate this ability to control resolution and projection by constructing a voltage table that compensates for the nonlinear response of the mirrors to the applied voltage.
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