Universal autofocus for quantitative volumetric microscopy of whole mouse brains

L Silvestri, MC Müllenbroich, I Costantini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Unbiased quantitative analysis of macroscopic biological samples demands fast imaging
systems capable of maintaining high resolution across large volumes. Here we introduce …

Multi-scale light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast whole brain imaging

Z Zhang, X Yao, X Yin, Z Ding, T Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Whole-brain imaging has become an increasingly important approach to investigate neural
structures, such as somata distribution, dendritic morphology, and axonal projection …

Real-time multi-angle projection imaging of biological dynamics

BJ Chang, JD Manton, E Sapoznik, T Pohlkamp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We introduce a cost-effective and easily implementable scan unit that converts any camera-
based microscope with optical sectioning capability into a multi-angle projection imaging …

Whole-brain block-face serial microscopy tomography at subcellular resolution using FAST

K Seiriki, A Kasai, T Nakazawa, M Niu, Y Naka… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Here, we describe an optimized and detailed protocol for block-face serial microscopy
tomography (FAST). FAST enables high-speed serial section fluorescence imaging of fixed …

Rapid three-dimensional isotropic imaging of living cells using Bessel beam plane illumination

TA Planchon, L Gao, DE Milkie, MW Davidson… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
A key challenge when imaging living cells is how to noninvasively extract the most
spatiotemporal information possible. Unlike popular wide-field and confocal methods, plane …

A robust and versatile platform for image scanning microscopy enabling super-resolution FLIM

M Castello, G Tortarolo, M Buttafava, T Deguchi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Image scanning microscopy (ISM) can improve the effective spatial resolution of confocal
microscopy to its theoretical limit. However, current implementations are not robust or …

Imaging subcellular dynamics with fast and light-efficient volumetrically parallelized microscopy

KM Dean, P Roudot, ES Welf, T Pohlkamp, G Garrelts… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In fluorescence microscopy, the serial acquisition of two-dimensional images to form a three-
dimensional (3D) volume limits the maximum imaging speed. This is particularly evident …

Fast widefield scan provides tunable and uniform illumination optimizing super-resolution microscopy on large fields

A Mau, K Friedl, C Leterrier, N Bourg… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-uniform illumination limits quantitative analyses of fluorescence imaging techniques. In
particular, single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) relies on high irradiances, but …

Whole-animal functional and developmental imaging with isotropic spatial resolution

RK Chhetri, F Amat, Y Wan, B Höckendorf… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Imaging fast cellular dynamics across large specimens requires high resolution in all
dimensions, high imaging speeds, good physical coverage and low photo-damage. To meet …

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

T Chakraborty, B Chen, S Daetwyler… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …