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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genesis. 2012 Sep 20;50(11):844–850. doi: 10.1002/dvg.22344

Table 2.

Examples of confocal z-stack acquisition parameters for E9.5 mouse embryo demonstrating the relationship between pinhole diameter, optical slice thickness and number of optical sections.

Pinhole diameter Optical slice thickness # optical sections Total imaging depth
196 33.3 μm 24 765 μm
70 12.15 μm 62 740 μm