A confocal microscope is a
fluorescence microscope with a laser as its source of illumination,
which is focused onto a single point at a specific depth
in the specimen, and a pinhole aperture in the detector
allows only fluorescence emitted from the exact point of
focus to be included in the image. Scanning the laser
beam across the specimen generates a sharper
two-dimensional image of the plane of focus.
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