Multimodal fluorescence microscope with fast adaptive polarimetry [PDF]
HardwareX, 2023 Polarized light microscopy is a widely used technique to observe specimens that are optically anisotropic, or birefringent. It has a broad applicability in the study of minerals, soft materials such as polymers, complex fluids or liquid crystals, and ...
Berta Martínez-Prat +3 more
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A miniature fluorescence microscope for multi-plane imaging [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Miniature fluorescence microscopes are becoming an increasingly established tool to investigate neural circuits in freely moving animals. In this work we present a lightweight one-photon microscope capable of imaging at different focal depths.
Giovanni Barbera +5 more
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Fluorescence microscope light source based on integrated LED [PDF]
Light: Science & Applications, 2023 An LED-integrated excitation cube (LEC) was designed to address the limitations of conventional fluorescence lamps. The LEC has a decentralized structure, high optical power density, and efficient illumination.
Jianchen Zi, Hai Bi
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An open-source, high-resolution, automated fluorescence microscope [PDF]
eLifeFluorescence microscopy is a fundamental tool in the life sciences, but the availability of sophisticated equipment required to yield high-quality, quantitative data is a major bottleneck in data production in many laboratories worldwide.
Ando Christian Zehrer +3 more
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A Smartphone-Based Low-Cost Inverted Laser Fluorescence Microscope for Disease Diagnosis [PDF]
Biosensors, 2022 Fluorescence microscopy is an important tool for disease diagnosis, often requiring costly optical components, such as fluorescence filter cubes and high-power light sources.
Omar Ormachea +3 more
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Low-cost fluorescence microscope with microfluidic device fabrication for optofluidic applications [PDF]
HardwareX, 2023 Optofluidic devices have revolutionized the manipulation and transportation of fluid at smaller length scales ranging from micrometers to millimeters. We describe a dedicated optical setup for studying laser-induced cavitation inside a microchannel. In a
Nagaraj Nagalingam +8 more
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Homologous Recombination under the Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscope. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2019 Homologous recombination (HR) is a complex biological process and is central to meiosis and for repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Although the HR process has been the subject of intensive study for more than three decades, the complex protein–protein ...
Gibbs DR, Dhakal S.
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Facile assembly of an affordable miniature multicolor fluorescence microscope made of 3D-printed parts enables detection of single cells. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Fluorescence microscopy is one of the workhorses of biomedical research and laboratory diagnosis; however, their cost, size, maintenance, and fragility has prevented their adoption in developing countries or low-resource settings.
Samuel B Tristan-Landin +3 more
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Possibilities of using a miniature fluorescence microscope [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article discusses an approach to fluorescence microscopy using single-photon miniature fluorescence microscopes. The use of miniscopes allows you to expand the possibilities of their usage and solve many problems related to the need of fixing ...
Erofeev Alexander +4 more
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Light sheet fluorescence microscope for microfluidic chip [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020 We present a light sheet fluorescence microscope dedicated to image “Organ-on-chip”-like biostructures in microfluidic chip. Based on a simple design, the setup is built around the chip and its environment to allow 3D imaging inside the chip in a ...
Bissardon Caroline +6 more
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