scholarly journals Selective plane illumination microscopy with a light sheet of uniform thickness formed by an electrically tunable lens

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 924-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Niklas Hedde ◽  
Enrico Gratton
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Gao

AbstractTiling light sheet selective plane illumination microscopy (TLS-SPIM) improves 3D imaging ability of SPIM by using a real-time optimized tiling light sheet. However, the imaging speed decreases, and size of the raw image data increases proportionally to the number of tiling positions in TLS-SPIM. The decreased imaging speed and the increased raw data size could cause significant problems when TLS-SPIM is used to image large specimens at high spatial resolution. Here, we present a novel method to solve the problem. Discontinuous light sheets created by scanning coaxial beam arrays synchronized with camera exposures are used for 3D imaging to decrease the number of tiling positions required at each image plane without sacrificing the spatial resolution. We investigate the performance of the method via numerical simulation and discuss the technical details of the method.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Gao

AbstractKeeping the excitation light sheet in focus is critical in selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) to ensure its 3D imaging ability. Unfortunately, an effective method that can be used in SPIM on general biological specimens to find the axial position of the excitation light sheet and keep it in focus is barely available. Here, we present a method to solve the problem. We investigate its mechanism and demonstrate its performance on a lattice light sheet microscope.


2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 21010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian O. Fahrbach ◽  
Fabian F. Voigt ◽  
Benjamin Schmid ◽  
Fritjof Helmchen ◽  
Jan Huisken

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (23) ◽  
pp. 34472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongyue Wang ◽  
Yuxiao Jin ◽  
Ruili Feng ◽  
Yanlu Chen ◽  
Liang Gao

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Saska ◽  
Paul Pichler ◽  
Chen Qian ◽  
Chrysia Pegasiou ◽  
Christopher L. Buckley ◽  
...  

AbstractSelective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) is a fluorescence imaging technique that allows volumetric imaging at high spatio-temporal resolution to monitor neural activity in live organisms such as larval zebrafish. A major challenge in the construction of a custom SPIM microscope is the control and synchronization of the various hardware components. Here we present a control toolset, μSPIM, built around the open-source MicroManager platform that has already been widely adopted for the control of microscopy hardware. Installation of μSPIM is relatively straightforward, involving a single C++ executable and a Java-based extension to Micro-Manager. Imaging protocols are defined through the μSPIM extension to Micro-Manager. The extension then synchronizes the camera shutter with the galvanometer mirrors to create a light-sheet that is scanned in the z-dimension, in synchrony with the imaging objective, to produce volumetric recordings. A key advantage of μSPIM is that a series of calibration procedures optimizes acquisition for a given set-up making it relatively independent of the optical design of the microscope, or the hardware used to build it. Two laser illumination arms can be used while also allowing for the introduction of illumination masks. μSPIM allows imaging of calcium activity throughout the brain of larval zebrafish at rates of 100 planes per second with single cell resolution as well as slower imaging to reconstruct cell populations, for example, in the cleared brains of mice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 088701
Author(s):  
Yu-Yao Hu ◽  
Dong Liang ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Jun Liu

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaye He ◽  
Jan Huisken

AbstractFluorescence microscopy is an essential tool for biological discoveries. There is a constant demand for better spatial resolution across a larger field of view. Although strides have been made to improve the theoretical resolution and speed of the optical instruments, in mesoscopic samples, image quality is still largely limited by the optical properties of the sample. In Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM), the achievable optical performance is hampered by optical degradations encountered in both the illumination and detection. Multi-view imaging, either through sample rotation or additional optical paths, is a popular strategy to improve sample coverage. In this work, we introduce a smart rotation workflow that utilizes on-the-fly image analysis to identify the optimal light sheet imaging orientations. The smart rotation workflow outperforms the conventional approach without additional hardware and achieves a better sample coverage using the same number of angles or less and thereby reduces data volume and phototoxicity.


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