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Highly Resolved Intravital Striped-illumination Microscopy of Germinal Centers
Published on: April 9, 2014
Enhanced resolution through thick tissue with structured illumination and adaptive optics
Benjamin Thomas1, Adrian Wolstenholme2, Snehal N Chaudhari3
1University of Georgia, College of Engineering, 101 Driftmier Engineering Center, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States.
Abstract:
Structured illumination microscopy provides twice the linear resolution of conventional fluorescence microscopy, but in thick samples, aberrations degrade the performance and limit the resolution. Here, we demonstrate structured illumination microscopy through 35 μm of tissue using adaptive optics (AO) to correct aberrations resulting in images with a resolution of 140 nm. We report a 60% minimum improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio of the structured illumination reconstruction through thick tissue by correction with AO.
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