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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2008 Aug;25(8):1866–1874. doi: 10.1364/josaa.25.001866

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Stratified squamous (a), simple cuboidal (b), and columnar (c) epithelium. If light is incident on the surface (bottom) of tissue, stratified squamous epithelium represents axially transverse spheroids, simple cuboidal represents axially symmetric spheroids, while columnar epithelium exhibits both geometries. Figure from [6].