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Nipkow disk

A disc with pinholes placed such that every revolution of the disc collectively scans the pinholes across the entire disc area with minimal overlap. This geometry is used for spinning disk microscopy to ensure that the whole field of view is excited and imaged.

See also: confocal microscopy , spinning disk confocal microscopy , array-scanning confocal microscopy

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