Types Of Confocal Instruments: Basic Principles And Advantages And Disadvantages

As noted in Sect. 1.2 of Chap. 1, several types of confocal microscopes have been introduced over the years. These can be broken down into three basic categories: Single-photon point-scanning confocal systems, multiphoton (nonlinear) point-scanning confocal systems, and spinning-disk confocal systems. New developments are continually being added to the hardware and software of these microscopes to improve their performance, but the majority of confocal systems will fall into one of these groups.