Confocal microscopy

Confocal and multiphoton microscopy are non-invasive fluorescent imaging techniques that use lasers of different wavelengths to excite the sample and produce the image. Samples can be detected simply from naturally occurring autofluorescence of the tissue or they can be labelled with fluorochromes to highlight specific tissues.

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