scholarly journals Enhanced Light Sheet Elastic Scattering Microscopy by Using a Supercontinuum Laser

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Di Battista ◽  
David Merino ◽  
Giannis Zacharakis ◽  
Pablo Loza-Alvarez ◽  
Omar E. Olarte
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Scattering ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Spatial Coherence ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Excitation Laser ◽  
Polarization Filtering ◽  
Microscopy Techniques

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy techniques have revolutionized biological microscopy enabling low-phototoxic long-term 3D imaging of living samples. Although there exist many light sheet microscopy (LSM) implementations relying on fluorescence, just a few works have paid attention to the laser elastic scattering source of contrast available in every light sheet microscope. Interestingly, elastic scattering can potentially disclose valuable information from the structure and composition of the sample at different spatial scales. However, when coherent scattered light is detected with a camera sensor, a speckled intensity is generated on top of the native imaged features, compromising their visibility. In this work, we propose a novel light sheet based optical setup which implements three strategies for dealing with speckles of elastic scattering images: (i) polarization filtering; (ii) reducing the temporal coherence of the excitation laser light; and, (iii) reducing the spatial coherence of the light sheet. Finally, we show how these strategies enable pristine light-sheet elastic-scattering imaging of structural features in challenging biological samples avoiding the deleterious effects of speckle, and without relying on, but complementing, fluorescent labelling.

scholarly journals Wavefront shaping of a Bessel light field enhances light sheet microscopy with scattered light

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Nylk ◽  
C. Mitchell ◽  
T. Vettenburg ◽  
F. J. Gunn-Moore ◽  
K. Dholakia
Keyword(s):  
Light Field ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Wavefront Shaping

scholarly journals Multi-color 4D superresolution light-sheet microscopy reveals organelle interactions at isotropic 100-nm resolution and sub-second timescales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Fei
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
Spatiotemporal Resolution ◽  
Volumetric Imaging ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Intracellular Organelles ◽  
Microscopy Techniques

Long-term visualization of the dynamic organelle-organelle or protein-organelle interactions throughout the three-dimensional space of whole live cells is essential to better understand their functions, but this task remains challenging due to the limitations of existing three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy techniques, such as an insufficient axial resolution, low volumetric imaging rate, and photobleaching. Here, we present the combination of a progressive deep-learning superresolution strategy with a dual-ring-modulated SPIM design capable of visualizing the dynamics of intracellular organelles in live cells for hours at an isotropic spatial resolution of ~100 nm in three dimensions and a temporal resolution up to ~17 Hz. With a compelling spatiotemporal resolution, we substantially reveal the complex spatial relationships and interactions between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria throughout live cells, providing new insights into ER-mediated mitochondrial division. We also localized the motion of Drp1 oligomers in three dimensions and observed Drp1-mediated mitochondrial branching for the first time.

scholarly journals MEMS enabled miniaturized light-sheet microscopy with all optical control

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridon Bakas ◽  
Deepak Uttamchandani ◽  
Hiroshi Toshiyoshi ◽  
Ralf Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Objective Lens ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
All Optical ◽  
Excitation Laser ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Tunable Lenses

AbstractWe have designed and implemented a compact, cost-efficient miniaturised light-sheet microscopy system based on optical microelectromechanical systems scanners and tunable lenses. The system occupies a footprint of 20 × 28 × 13 cm3 and combines off-the-shelf optics and optomechanics with 3D-printed structural and optical elements, and an economically costed objective lens, excitation laser and camera. All-optical volume scanning enables imaging of 435 × 232 × 60 µm3 volumes with 0.25 vps (volumes per second) and minimum lateral and axial resolution of 1.0 µm and 3.8 µm respectively. An open-top geometry allows imaging of samples on flat bottomed holders, allowing integration with microfluidic devices, multi-well plates and slide mounted samples, with applications envisaged in biomedical research and pre-clinical settings.

scholarly journals Light-Sheet Microscopy for Surface Topography Measurements and Quantitative Analysis

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhanpeng Xu ◽  
Erik Forsberg ◽  
Yang Guo ◽  
Fuhong Cai ◽  
Sailing He
Keyword(s):  
Surface Topography ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Linear Calibration ◽  
Industrial Sample ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy

A novel light-sheet microscopy (LSM) system that uses the laser triangulation method to quantitatively calculate and analyze the surface topography of opaque samples is discussed. A spatial resolution of at least 10 μm in z-direction, 10 μm in x-direction and 25 μm in y-direction with a large field-of-view (FOV) is achieved. A set of sample measurements that verify the system′s functionality in various applications are presented. The system has a simple mechanical structure, such that the spatial resolution is easily improved by replacement of the objective, and a linear calibration formula, which enables convenient system calibration. As implemented, the system has strong potential for, e.g., industrial sample line inspections, however, since the method utilizes reflected/scattered light, it also has the potential for three-dimensional analysis of translucent and layered structures.

scholarly journals Multidirectional digital scanned light-sheet microscopy enables uniform fluorescence excitation and contrast-enhanced imaging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam K. Glaser ◽  
Ye Chen ◽  
Chengbo Yin ◽  
Linpeng Wei ◽  
Lindsey A. Barner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scattered Light ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Line Detection ◽  
Fluorescence Excitation ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Contrast Enhanced ◽  
Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy ◽  
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Enhanced Imaging ◽  
Imaging Plane

AbstractLight-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) has emerged as a powerful method for rapid and optically efficient 3D microscopy. Initial LSFM designs utilized a static sheet of light, termed selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM), which exhibited shadowing artifacts and deteriorated contrast due to light scattering. These issues have been addressed, in part, by multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy (mSPIM), in which rotation of the light sheet is used to mitigate shadowing artifacts, and digital scanned light-sheet microscopy (DSLM), in which confocal line detection is used to reject scattered light. Here we present a simple passive multidirectional digital scanned light-sheet microscopy (mDSLM) architecture that combines the benefits of mSPIM and DSLM. By utilizing an elliptical Gaussian beam with increased angular diversity in the imaging plane, mDSLM provides shadow-free contrast-enhanced imaging of fluorescently labeled samples.One Sentence SummaryGlaser et al. describe a light-sheet microscopy architecture that enables passive multidirectional illumination with confocal line detection to enable both uniform fluorescence excitation and contrast-enhanced imaging of fluorescently labeled samples.

scholarly journals MEMS enabled miniaturized light-sheet microscopy with all optical control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridon Bakas ◽  
Deepak Uttamchandani ◽  
Hiroshi Toshiyoshi ◽  
Ralf Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Objective Lens ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
All Optical ◽  
Excitation Laser ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Tunable Lenses

AbstractWe have designed and implemented a compact, cost-efficient miniaturised light-sheet microscopy system based on optical Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) scanners and tunable lenses. The system occupies a footprint of 20 × 28 × 13 cm3 and combines off-the-shelf optics and optomechanics with 3D-printed structural and optical elements, and an economically costed objective lens, excitation laser and camera. All-optical volume scanning enables imaging of 340 × 190 × 60 µm3 volumes with 0.25 vps and minimum lateral and axial resolution of 0.9 µm and 2.95 µm respectively. An open-top geometry allows imaging of samples on flat bottomed holders, allowing integration with microfluidic devices, multi-well plates and slide mounted samples, with applications envisaged in biomedical research and pre-clinical settings.

scholarly journals Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Cheng ◽  
Juncheng Wang ◽  
Ling Ma ◽  
Zhixiong Shen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Imaging ◽  
Frequency Dispersion ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Photonic Devices ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Beam Focusing ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Airy Beam ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Airy Beams

AbstractAiry beams exhibit intriguing properties such as nonspreading, self-bending, and self-healing and have attracted considerable recent interest because of their many potential applications in photonics, such as to beam focusing, light-sheet microscopy, and biomedical imaging. However, previous approaches to generate Airy beams using photonic structures have suffered from severe chromatic problems arising from strong frequency dispersion of the scatterers. Here, we design and fabricate a metasurface composed of silicon posts for the frequency range 0.4–0.8 THz in transmission mode, and we experimentally demonstrate achromatic Airy beams exhibiting autofocusing properties. We further show numerically that a generated achromatic Airy-beam-based metalens exhibits self-healing properties that are immune to scattering by particles and that it also possesses a larger depth of focus than a traditional metalens. Our results pave the way to the realization of flat photonic devices for applications to noninvasive biomedical imaging and light-sheet microscopy, and we provide a numerical demonstration of a device protocol.

scholarly journals Single-Molecule Light-Sheet Microscopy with Local Nanopipette Delivery

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 4092-4099
Author(s):  
Bing Li ◽  
Aleks Ponjavic ◽  
Wei-Hsin Chen ◽  
Lee Hopkins ◽  
Craig Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Molecule ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy
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