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Hell, S.W. (2002). Increasing the Resolution of Far-Field Fluorescence Light Microscopy by Point-Spread-Function Engineering. In: Lakowicz, J.R. (eds) Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47070-5_9

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