Modeling of the point-spread function of laser scanning microscopes using canonical transforms

We review the theory of canonical transforms and describe how they can be used to calculate the point-spread functions of optical systems. We demonstrate their implementation in symbolic programming systems and apply the results to investigate laser scanning confocal optical microscopes. In the last part of the paper, we use the model derived to restore a 3-D image from a confocal optical microscope.

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