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Imaging neural events in zebrafish larvae with linear structured illumination light sheet fluorescence microscopy

Authors
Liu, Y., Dale, S., Ball, R., VanLeuven, A.J., Sornborger, A., Lauderdale, J.D., Kner, P.
ID
ZDB-PUB-190312-7
Date
2019
Source
Neurophotonics   6: 015009 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Ball, Rebecca, Lauderdale, James D.
Keywords
light sheet fluorescence microscopy, microscopy, optical sectioning, structured illumination
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none
PubMed
30854407 Full text @ Neurophotonics
Abstract
Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is a powerful tool for investigating model organisms including zebrafish. However, due to scattering and refractive index variations within the sample, the resulting image often suffers from low contrast. Structured illumination (SI) has been combined with scanned LSFM to remove out-of-focus and scattered light using square-law detection. Here, we demonstrate that the combination of LSFM with linear reconstruction SI can further increase resolution and contrast in the vertical and axial directions compared to the widely adopted root-mean square reconstruction method while using the same input images. We apply this approach to imaging neural activity in 7-day postfertilization zebrafish larvae. We imaged two-dimensional sections of the zebrafish central nervous system in two colors at an effective frame rate of 7 frames per second.
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