Fast optical sectioning obtained by structured illumination microscopy using a digital mirror device

J Biomed Opt. 2013 Jun;18(6):060503. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.6.060503.

Abstract

High-throughput optical imaging is critical to obtain large-scale neural connectivity information of brain in neuroscience. Using a digital mirror device and a scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera, we report a significant speed improvement of structured illumination microscopy (SIM), which produces a maximum SIM net frame rate of 133 Hz. We perform three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of mouse brain slices at diffraction-limited resolution and demonstrate the fast 3-D imaging capability to a large sample with an imaging rate of 6.9×10(7) pixel/s of our system, an order of magnitude faster than previously reported.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / pathology
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Equipment Design
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Light
  • Lighting / instrumentation*
  • Lighting / methods
  • Metals / chemistry
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods
  • Microscopy, Video / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy, Video / methods
  • Microspheres
  • Neurons / metabolism
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Oxides / chemistry
  • Semiconductors

Substances

  • Metals
  • Oxides