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Electrically tunable lens speeds up 3D orbital tracking.

Paolo Annibale1, Alexander Dvornikov1, Enrico Gratton2

  • 1Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine USA ; Authors contributed equally to this work.

Biomedical Optics Express
|June 27, 2015
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Summary

We improved 3D orbital particle tracking for live cells by using an Electrically Tunable Lens (ETL) instead of mechanical stages. This enhances speed, accuracy, and tracking range for cellular structures and genomic loci.

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