scholarly journals Converting lateral scanning into axial focusing to speed up three-dimensional microscopy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonmoy Chakraborty ◽  
Bingying Chen ◽  
Stephan Daetwyler ◽  
Bo-Jui Chang ◽  
Oliver Vanderpoorten ◽  
...  

Abstract In optical microscopy, the slow axial scanning rate of the objective or the sample has traditionally limited the speed of volumetric imaging. Recently, by conjugating either a movable mirror to the image plane in a remote-focusing geometry or an electrically tuneable lens (ETL) to the back focal plane, rapid axial scanning has been achieved. However, mechanical actuation of a mirror limits the axial scanning rate (usually only 10–100 Hz for piezoelectric or voice coil-based actuators), while ETLs introduce spherical and higher-order aberrations that prevent high-resolution imaging. In an effort to overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel optical design that transforms a lateral-scan motion into a spherical aberration-free axial scan that can be used for high-resolution imaging. Using a galvanometric mirror, we scan a laser beam laterally in a remote-focusing arm, which is then back-reflected from different heights of a mirror in the image space. We characterize the optical performance of this remote-focusing technique and use it to accelerate axially swept light-sheet microscopy by an order of magnitude, allowing the quantification of rapid vesicular dynamics in three dimensions. We also demonstrate resonant remote focusing at 12 kHz with a two-photon raster-scanning microscope, which allows rapid imaging of brain tissues and zebrafish cardiac dynamics with diffraction-limited resolution.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonmoy Chakraborty ◽  
Bo-Jui Chang ◽  
Stephan Daetwyler ◽  
Etai Sapoznik ◽  
Bingying Chen ◽  
...  

AbstractIn optical microscopy, the slow axial scanning rate of the objective or the sample has traditionally limited the speed of 3D volumetric imaging. Recently, by conjugating either a movable-mirror to the image plane or an electrotuneable lens (ETL) to the back-focal plane respectively, rapid axial scanning has been achieved. However, mechanical actuation of a mirror limits axial scanning rate (usually only 10-100 Hz for piezoelectric or voice coil based actuators), while ETLs introduce spherical and higher order aberrations, thereby preventing high-resolution imaging. Here, we introduce a novel optical design that can transform a lateral-scan motion into a spherical-aberration-free, high-resolution, rapid axial scan. Using a galvanometric mirror, we scan a laser beam laterally in a remote-focusing arm, which is then back-reflected from different heights of a mirror in image space. We characterize the optical performance of this remote focusing technique and use it to accelerate axially swept light-sheet microscopy (ASLM) by one order of magnitude, allowing the quantification of rapid vesicular dynamics in 3D.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1267-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïc A Royer ◽  
William C Lemon ◽  
Raghav K Chhetri ◽  
Yinan Wan ◽  
Michael Coleman ◽  
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Author(s):  
Etai Sapoznik ◽  
Bo-Jui Chang ◽  
Jaewon Huh ◽  
Robert J. Ju ◽  
Evgenia V. Azarova ◽  
...  

AbstractWe present an Oblique Plane Microscope that uses a bespoke glass-tipped tertiary objective to improve the resolution, field of view, and usability over previous variants. Owing to its high numerical aperture optics, this microscope achieves lateral and axial resolutions that are comparable to the square illumination mode of Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy, but in a user friendly and versatile format. Given this performance, we demonstrate high-resolution imaging of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, vimentin, the endoplasmic reticulum, membrane dynamics, and Natural Killer-mediated cytotoxicity. Furthermore, we image biological phenomena that would be otherwise challenging or impossible to perform in a traditional light-sheet microscope geometry, including cell migration through confined spaces within a microfluidic device, subcellular photoactivation of Rac1, diffusion of cytoplasmic rheological tracers at a volumetric rate of 14 Hz, and large field of view imaging of neurons, developing embryos, and centimeter-scale tissue sections.


eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etai Sapoznik ◽  
Bo-Jui Chang ◽  
Jaewon Huh ◽  
Robert J Ju ◽  
Evgenia V Azarova ◽  
...  

We present an oblique plane microscope (OPM) that uses a bespoke glass-tipped tertiary objective to improve the resolution, field of view, and usability over previous variants. Owing to its high numerical aperture optics, this microscope achieves lateral and axial resolutions that are comparable to the square illumination mode of lattice light-sheet microscopy, but in a user friendly and versatile format. Given this performance, we demonstrate high-resolution imaging of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, vimentin, the endoplasmic reticulum, membrane dynamics, and Natural Killer-mediated cytotoxicity. Furthermore, we image biological phenomena that would be otherwise challenging or impossible to perform in a traditional light-sheet microscope geometry, including cell migration through confined spaces within a microfluidic device, subcellular photoactivation of Rac1, diffusion of cytoplasmic rheological tracers at a volumetric rate of 14 Hz, and large field of view imaging of neurons, developing embryos, and centimeter-scale tissue sections.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (19) ◽  
pp. 5310
Author(s):  
Michele Zusi ◽  
Riccardo Paolinetti ◽  
Vincenzo Della Corte ◽  
Gabriella Marra ◽  
Marco Baroni ◽  
...  

BMC Biology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Migliori ◽  
Malika S. Datta ◽  
Christophe Dupre ◽  
Mehmet C. Apak ◽  
Shoh Asano ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yicong Wu ◽  
Abhishek Kumar ◽  
Corey Smith ◽  
Evan Ardiel ◽  
Panagiotis Chandris ◽  
...  

AbstractLight-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) enables high-speed, high-resolution, gentle imaging of live biological specimens over extended periods. Here we describe a technique that improves the spatiotemporal resolution and collection efficiency of LSFM without modifying the underlying microscope. By imaging samples on reflective coverslips, we enable simultaneous collection of multiple views, obtaining 4 complementary views in 250 ms, half the period it would otherwise take to collect only two views in symmetric dual-view selective plane illumination microscopy (diSPIM). We also report a modified deconvolution algorithm that removes the associated epifluorescence contamination and fuses all views for resolution recovery. Furthermore, we enhance spatial resolution (to < 300 nm in all three dimensions) by applying our method to a new asymmetric diSPIM, permitting simultaneous acquisition of two high-resolution views otherwise difficult to obtain due to steric constraints at high numerical aperture (NA). We demonstrate the broad applicability of our method in a variety of samples of moderate (< 50 μm) thickness, studying mitochondrial, membrane, Golgi, and microtubule dynamics in single cells and calcium activity in nematode embryos.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (15) ◽  
pp. 4059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Zusi ◽  
Riccardo Paolinetti ◽  
Vincenzo Della Corte ◽  
Gabriella Marra ◽  
Marco Baroni ◽  
...  

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