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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MINFLUX nanometer-scale 3D imaging and microsecond-range tracking on a common fluorescence microscope [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 The recently introduced minimal photon fluxes (MINFLUX) concept pushed the resolution of fluorescence microscopy to molecular dimensions. Initial demonstrations relied on custom made, specialized microscopes, raising the question of the method’s general ...
R. Schmidt +6 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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Pocket MUSE: an affordable, versatile and high-performance fluorescence microscope using a smartphone [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2020 Smartphone microscopes can be useful tools for a broad range of imaging applications. This manuscript demonstrates the first practical implementation of Microscopy with Ultraviolet Surface Excitation (MUSE) in a compact smartphone microscope called ...
Yehe Liu +4 more
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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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Colour compound lenses for a portable fluorescence microscope [PDF]
Light Sci Appl, 2019 In this article, we demonstrated a handheld smartphone fluorescence microscope (HSFM) that integrates dual-functional polymer lenses with a smartphone. The HSFM consists of a smartphone, a field-portable illumination source, and a dual-functional polymer
B. Dai +12 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 ...
Dhakal, Soma, Gibbs, Dalton R.
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Single-pixel phase and fluorescence microscope.
Optics Express, 2018 Multimodal microscopes either use multiple cameras or a single camera to multiplex different modes spatially. The former needs expertise demanding alignment and the latter suffers from limited spatial resolution.
Yang Liu +3 more
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