Varifocal metalens for optical sectioning fluorescence microscopy

Y Luo, CH Chu, S Vyas, HY Kuo, YH Chia… - Nano Letters, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Fluorescence microscopy with optical sectioning capabilities is extensively utilized in
biological research to obtain three-dimensional structural images of volumetric samples …

Multifocal fluorescence video-rate imaging of centimetre-wide arbitrarily shaped brain surfaces at micrometric resolution

H **e, X Han, G **ao, H Xu, Y Zhang, G Zhang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Fluorescence microscopy allows for the high-throughput imaging of cellular activity across
brain areas in mammals. However, capturing rapid cellular dynamics across the curved …

Electrically tunable lenses–eliminating mechanical axial movements during high-speed 3D live imaging

C Efstathiou, VM Draviam - Journal of Cell Science, 2021‏ - journals.biologists.com
The successful investigation of photosensitive and dynamic biological events, such as those
in a proliferating tissue or a dividing cell, requires non-intervening high-speed imaging …

Continuous optical zoom microscopy imaging system based on liquid lenses

Z Jiang, D Wang, Y Zheng, C Liu, QH Wang - Optics express, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
In this paper, a continuous optical zoom microscopy imaging system based on liquid lenses
is proposed. Compared with traditional microscopes, which have discrete magnification …

Advanced in vivo fluorescence microscopy of neural electronic interface

Q Yang, XT Cui - MRS Bulletin, 2023‏ - Springer
Neuroelectronic devices are essential tools in neuroscience research, diagnosis, and/or
treatment of neurological diseases, as well as in neuro-prosthetics and brain–computer …

Experimental characterization, modelling and compensation of temperature effects in optotunable lenses

Y Marrakchi, X Barcala, E Gambra… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Most tunable lenses (TLs) are affected by deviations in optical power induced by external
temperature changes or due to internal heating while in use. This study proposes:(1) An …

Fast volumetric imaging with line-scan confocal microscopy by electrically tunable lens at resonant frequency

KD Mac, MM Qureshi, M Na, S Chang, TJ Eom… - Optics …, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
In microscopic imaging of biological tissues, particularly real-time visualization of neuronal
activities, rapid acquisition of volumetric images poses a prominent challenge. Typically, two …

Improving signal-to-background ratio by orders of magnitude in high-speed volumetric imaging in vivo by robust Fourier light field microscopy

J Zhai, R Shi, L Kong - Photonics Research, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
Fourier light field microscopy (FLFM) shows great potential in high-speed volumetric
imaging of biodynamics. However, due to the inherent disadvantage of wide-field …

Evaluating structured-illumination patterns in optimizing optical-sectioning of HiLo microscopy

R Shi, L Kong - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
HiLo microscopy is a wide-field, optical-sectioning imaging technique, which is based on
computational reconstruction from a uniform-illumination image and a structured-illumination …

Real-time brain-wide multi-planar microscopy for simultaneous cortex and hippocampus imaging at the cellular resolution in mice

C Zhuang, J Cao, R Zhang, G **ao, J Hu… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
Interactions between the cerebral cortex and the deep cerebellar nuclei play important roles
in cognitive processes. However, conventional microscopes fail to dynamically record …