PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yicong Wu
AU  - Abhishek Kumar
AU  - Corey Smith
AU  - Evan Ardiel
AU  - Panagiotis Chandris
AU  - Ryan Christensen
AU  - Ivan Rey-Suarez
AU  - Min Guo
AU  - Harshad D. Vishwasrao
AU  - Jiji Chen
AU  - Jianyong Tang
AU  - Arpita Upadhyaya
AU  - Patrick J. La Riviere
AU  - Hari Shroff
TI  - Reflective imaging improves resolution, speed, and collection efficiency in light sheet microscopy
AID  - 10.1101/154807
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 154807
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/23/154807.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/23/154807.full
AB  - Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) enables high-speed, high-resolution, gentle imaging of live biological specimens over extended periods. Here we describe a technique that improves the spatiotemporal resolution and collection efficiency of LSFM without modifying the underlying microscope. By imaging samples on reflective coverslips, we enable simultaneous collection of multiple views, obtaining 4 complementary views in 250 ms, half the period it would otherwise take to collect only two views in symmetric dual-view selective plane illumination microscopy (diSPIM). We also report a modified deconvolution algorithm that removes the associated epifluorescence contamination and fuses all views for resolution recovery. Furthermore, we enhance spatial resolution (to < 300 nm in all three dimensions) by applying our method to a new asymmetric diSPIM, permitting simultaneous acquisition of two high-resolution views otherwise difficult to obtain due to steric constraints at high numerical aperture (NA). We demonstrate the broad applicability of our method in a variety of samples of moderate (< 50 μm) thickness, studying mitochondrial, membrane, Golgi, and microtubule dynamics in single cells and calcium activity in nematode embryos.