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ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering2016

Modulated-Alignment Dual-Axis (MAD) Confocal Microscopy Optimized for Speed and Contrast.

Steven Y Leigh, Ye Chen, Jonathan T C Liu

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Article in IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Steven Y Leigh
Ye Chen
Jonathan T C Liu
University of Washington · USStony Brook University · US

Funding

Line-scanned MEMS-based dual-axis confocal microscopy to detect oral lesions in vR01DE023497 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LIU, JONATHAN T.C. · 2012 to 2014
$2.4M
Intraoperative confocal microscopy for quantitative delineation of low-grade glioR01CA175391 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LIU, JONATHAN T.C., SANAI, NADER · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
Dual-axis Confocal Microscope for Image-guided Resection of MedulloblastomaR00EB008557 · NIBIB · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI LIU, JONATHAN T.C. · 2010 to 2012
$724k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA175391NIBIB NIH HHS R00 EB008557NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE023497
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modulated-alignment dual-axis (MAD) confocal microscopy combines the benefits of dual-axis confocal (DAC) microscopy and focal-modulation microscopy (FMM) for rejecting out-of-focus and multiply scattered light in tissues. The DAC architecture, which utilizes off-axis and separated beam paths for illumination and detection, has previously been shown to be superior to single-axis confocal (SAC) microscopy for the spatial filtering (rejection) of unwanted background light. With the MAD approach, a modulation of the alignment between the illumination and collection beam paths tags ballistic photons emanating from the focal volume with a characteristic radio frequency that can be extracted and separated from background signal using lock-in detection. We report here an optimized form of MAD confocal microscopy where we have fully mitigated tradeoffs in performance in an initial proof-of-concept system in order to recover the imaging speed of DAC microscopy while retaining contrast enhancement of 6 dB (signal-to-background ratio) with a secondary improvement in optical-sectioning and in-plane resolution. Validation is demonstrated with light-scattering tissue phantoms and freshly excised tissues.

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Equipment DesignEquipment Failure AnalysisHistological TechniquesImage EnhancementLightingMicroscopy, ConfocalPhantoms, ImagingReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and Specificity

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