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WE have designed and built a prototype of a scanning microscope for thick objects of low reflectivity and low optical contrast. As light source, we used a 5 mW He–Ne continuous wave laser (Spectra-Physics Model 120). An improved prototype is under construction; in a year or two we expect to have a microscope suitable for advancing studies of brain cells in living animals1–4.
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DAVIDOVITS, P., EGGER, M. Scanning Laser Microscope. Nature 223, 831 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223831a0
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