Fully refractive telecentric f-theta microscope based on adaptive elements for 3D raster scanning of biological tissues
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Abstract
Various techniques in microscopy are based on point-wise acquisition, which provides advantages in acquiring sectioned images, for example in confocal or two-photon microscopy. The advantages come along with the need to perform three-dimensional scanning, which is often realized by mechanical movement achieved by stage-scanning or piezo-based scanning in the axial direction. Lateral scanning often employs galvo-mirrors, leading to a reflective setup and hence to a folded beam path. In this paper, we introduce a fully refractive microscope capable of three-dimensional scanning, which employs the combination of an adaptive lens, an adaptive prism, and a tailored telecentric f-Theta objective. Our results show that this microscope is capable to perform flexible three-dimensional scanning, with low scan-induced aberrations, at a uniform resolution over a large tuning range of X = Y = 6300 um and Z = 480 um with only transmissive components. We demonstrate the capabilities at the example of volumetric measurements on the transgenic fluorescence of the thyroid of a zebrafish embryo and mixed pollen grains. This is the first step towards flexible aberration-free volumetric smart microscopy of three-dimensional samples like embryos and organoids, which could be exploited for the demands in both lateral and axial dimensions in biomedical samples without compromising image quality.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 29703-29715 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Aug 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85171352418 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0003-4562-0759/work/189707574 |