ex vivo light microscopy in vivo light microscopy confocal microscopy 2018-12-20T10:50:58Z A type of fluorescence microscopy where sharp images are taken by excluding most of the light from the specimen that is not from the microscope's focal plane, thus allowing better contrast and less haze, which makes it possible to build three-dimensional reconstructions of a volume of the specimen by assembling a series of thin slices taken along the vertical axis. CLSM LCSM MMO:0000685 confocal laser scanning microscopy laser confocal scanning microscopy measurement_method_ontology sjwang