Title |
Fast, high-contrast imaging of animal development with scanned light sheet–based structured-illumination microscopy
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Published in |
Nature Methods, July 2010
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DOI | 10.1038/nmeth.1476 |
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Authors |
Philipp J Keller, Annette D Schmidt, Anthony Santella, Khaled Khairy, Zhirong Bao, Joachim Wittbrodt, Ernst H K Stelzer |
Abstract |
Recording light-microscopy images of large, nontransparent specimens, such as developing multicellular organisms, is complicated by decreased contrast resulting from light scattering. Early zebrafish development can be captured by standard light-sheet microscopy, but new imaging strategies are required to obtain high-quality data of late development or of less transparent organisms. We combined digital scanned laser light-sheet fluorescence microscopy with incoherent structured-illumination microscopy (DSLM-SI) and created structured-illumination patterns with continuously adjustable frequencies. Our method discriminates the specimen-related scattered background from signal fluorescence, thereby removing out-of-focus light and optimizing the contrast of in-focus structures. DSLM-SI provides rapid control of the illumination pattern, exceptional imaging quality and high imaging speeds. We performed long-term imaging of zebrafish development for 58 h and fast multiple-view imaging of early Drosophila melanogaster development. We reconstructed cell positions over time from the Drosophila DSLM-SI data and created a fly digital embryo. |
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