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Index transforms such as Mehler\u2013Fock and Kontorovich\u2013Lebedev, where integration occurs over the index of the function rather than over the argument, prove useful in solving the resulting differential equations when modeling optical or electronic response of such problems. By considering the scalar potential distribution of a charged probe in the presence of a dielectric substrate, we discuss certain implications and criteria of the index transform and prove the existence and the inversion theorems for the Mehler\u2013Fock transform of the order m\u220aN0. The probe charged to a potential V0, measured at the apex, is modeled, in the noncontact case, as a one-sheeted hyperboloid of revolution, and in the contact case or in the limit of a very sharp probe, as a cone. 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