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Signal Improved ultra-Fast Light-sheet Microscope (SIFT) for large tissue imaging
Summary
Researchers developed an improved light-sheet microscopy system that can image large tissue samples faster while maintaining high resolution. Advanced imaging tools like this are being adapted to detect and characterize microplastic particles lodged in biological tissues, which is important for assessing health impacts.
Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) in conjunction with tissue clearing techniques enables morphological investigation of large tissues faster and with excellent optical sectioning. Recently, cleared tissue axially swept light-sheet microscope (ctASLM) demonstrated three-dimensional isotropic resolution in millimeter-scaled tissues. But ASLM based microscopes suffer from low detection signal and slow imaging speed. Here we report a simple and efficient imaging platform that employs precise control of two fixed distant light-sheet foci to carry out ASLM. This allowed us to carry out full field of view (FOV) imaging at 40 frames per second (fps) which is a four-fold improvement compared to the current state-of-the-art. In addition, in a particular frame rate, our method doubles the signal compared to the current ASLM technique. To augment the overall imaging performance, we also developed a deep learning based tissue information classifier that enables faster determination of tissue boundary. We demonstrated the performance of our imaging platform on various cleared tissue samples and demonstrated its robustness over a wide range of clearing protocols.
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