Hi,
I'm currently in the middle of writing an essay on confocal
microscopy. One of the scetion which I have to include is a section
on factors which affect resolution of the images.

Please could someone give me a list of the factors with detail about
how the factor affect the image resolution.

any help appreciated.

thanks
prady
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Dear Prady, here is a list of some suitable reference books for you. The first
two in particular will help.

Best regards

Anna Smallcombe PhD Senior Applications Specialist, Bio-Rad Microscopy Division.

     **Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy (2nd Edition) ed James B
     Pawley. Plenum Press 1995 ISBN 0-306-44826-2

     **Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy by Colin Sheppard and David
     Shotton. bIOS Scientific Publishers 1997. RMS Microscopy Handbook No
     38. ISBN 1872748724

     Cell Biological Applications of Confocal microscopy ed Brian Matsumoto
     Academic Press 1993 (Methods in Cell Biology vol 38) ISBN
     0-12-480430-6

     Fluorescence Microscopy and Fluorescent Probes ed Jan Slavik. Plenum
     Press 1996. ISBN 0-306-45392-4

     Multidimensional Microscopy ed PC Cheng, TH Lin, WL Wu, JL Wu.
     Springer-Verlag 1994. ISBN 0-387-94118-5

     Antibodies in Cell Biology ed David J Asai. Academic Press 1993.
     Methods in Cell Biology Vol 37. ISBN 0-12-064520-3

     Fluorescence Microscopy of Living Cells in culture. Part A. ed Yu-Li
     Wang & D Lansing-Taylor.Methods in Cell Biol Vol 29. ISBN
     0-12-684-754-1 Part B. Methods in Cell Biology Vol 30. ISBN
     0-12-684-755-X Academic Press 1989

     Fluorescent and Luminescent probes for Biological  activity. A
     practical guide to technology for quantitative real-time analysis. ed
     WT Mason. Academic Press 1993. ISBN 0-12-477830-5