Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Concepts for structured illumination microscopy with extended axial resolution through mirrored illumination.


ABSTRACT: Wide-field fluorescence microscopy, while much faster than confocal microscopy, suffers from a lack of optical sectioning and poor axial resolution. 3D structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has been demonstrated to provide optical sectioning and to double the resolution limit both laterally and axially, but even with this the axial resolution is still worse than the lateral resolution of unmodified wide-field microscopy. Interferometric schemes using two high numerical aperture objectives, such as 4Pi confocal and I5M microscopy, have improved the axial resolution beyond that of the lateral, but at the cost of a significantly more complex optical setup. Here, we theoretically and numerically investigate a simpler dual-objective scheme which we propose can be easily added to an existing 3D-SIM microscope, providing lateral and axial resolutions in excess of 125 nm with conventional fluorophores and without the need for interferometric detection.

SUBMITTER: Manton JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7173891 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Concepts for structured illumination microscopy with extended axial resolution through mirrored illumination.

Manton James D JD   Ströhl Florian F   Fiolka Reto R   Kaminski Clemens F CF   Rees Eric J EJ  

Biomedical optics express 20200320 4


Wide-field fluorescence microscopy, while much faster than confocal microscopy, suffers from a lack of optical sectioning and poor axial resolution. 3D structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has been demonstrated to provide optical sectioning and to double the resolution limit both laterally and axially, but even with this the axial resolution is still worse than the lateral resolution of unmodified wide-field microscopy. Interferometric schemes using two high numerical aperture objectives, su  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC5611928 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC2895555 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4648340 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6555788 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6795901 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3462167 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4659358 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC2397368 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7459102 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4686755 | biostudies-literature