Table 2.

The mean intensity of wide-field images, 〈i_w〉, and standard deviation σ_m of five different fluorescent beads, obtained from experiment and theory.

Experiment				Theory
Bead	〈f〉 (cts)	σm (cts)	r	iw (cts)	r̂
1	1.70 × 105	836	4.09	5.01 × 105	4.11
2	1.20 × 105	669	3.90	4.13 × 105	4.38
3	10.29 × 104	511	3.24	2.32 × 105	3.56
4	1.89 × 105	750	3.50	5.04 × 105	3.85
5	9.05 × 104	526	3.54	2.80 × 105	4.15
		mean:	3.66	mean:	4.01