PUBLICATION
OPTiM: Optical projection tomography integrated microscope using open-source hardware and software
- Authors
- Watson, T., Andrews, N., Davis, S., Bugeon, L., Dallman, M.D., McGinty, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170713-1
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- PLoS One 12: e0180309 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Andrews, Natalie, Bugeon, Laurence, Dallman, Maggie
- Keywords
- Zebrafish, Optical lenses, Fluorescence imaging, Inverted microscopy, Light microscopy, Relays, Scanning confocal microscopy, Focal planes
- MeSH Terms
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- Algorithms
- Animals
- Microscopy/methods*
- Software*
- Tomography, Optical/methods*
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 28700724 Full text @ PLoS One
Citation
Watson, T., Andrews, N., Davis, S., Bugeon, L., Dallman, M.D., McGinty, J. (2017) OPTiM: Optical projection tomography integrated microscope using open-source hardware and software. PLoS One. 12:e0180309.
Abstract
We describe the implementation of an OPT plate to perform optical projection tomography (OPT) on a commercial wide-field inverted microscope, using our open-source hardware and software. The OPT plate includes a tilt adjustment for alignment and a stepper motor for sample rotation as required by standard projection tomography. Depending on magnification requirements, three methods of performing OPT are detailed using this adaptor plate: a conventional direct OPT method requiring only the addition of a limiting aperture behind the objective lens; an external optical-relay method allowing conventional OPT to be performed at magnifications >4x; a remote focal scanning and region-of-interest method for improved spatial resolution OPT (up to ~1.6 μm). All three methods use the microscope's existing incoherent light source (i.e. arc-lamp) and all of its inherent functionality is maintained for day-to-day use. OPT acquisitions are performed on in vivo zebrafish embryos to demonstrate the implementations' viability.
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