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ArticleNature communications2022

A quantitative analysis of various patterns applied in lattice light sheet microscopy.

Yu Shi, Timothy A Daugird, Wesley R Legant

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu ShiJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Timothy A DaugirdDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Wesley R LegantJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. legantw@email.unc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1827-5371
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Predoctoral Training in the Pharmacological SciencesT32GM135095 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Joseph Mauro Calabrese, Michael James Emanuele · 2020 to 2026
$3.6M
Connecting the dots between single molecule dynamics and cell differentiationDP2GM136653 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LEGANT, WESLEY R. · 2019 to 2019
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM136653NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM135095
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light sheet microscopes reduce phototoxicity and background and improve imaging speed compared to widefield and confocal microscopes. However, when equipped with Gaussian beams, the axial resolving power of a light sheet microscope and the observable field of view are inversely related. Light sheets based on dithered optical lattices improve axial resolution and beam uniformity compared Gaussian beams by using axially structured illumination patterns. However, these advantages come at the expense of an increased total illumination to the specimen and a decreased axial confinement of the illumination pattern. Using simulations and experimental measurements in fixed and live cells, we quantify the differences between Gaussian and lattice light sheets on beam uniformity, axial resolution, lateral resolution, and photobleaching. We demonstrate how different optical lattice illumination patterns can be tuned to prioritize either axial resolution or optical sectioning. Finally, we introduce an approach to spectrally fuse sequential acquisitions of different lattice light sheet patterns with complementary optical properties to achieve both high resolution and low background images.

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Identifiers

PMID35941165
PMCPMC9360440
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