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ArticleiScience2022

Light-sheet mesoscopy with the Mesolens provides fast sub-cellular resolution imaging throughout large tissue volumes.

Eliana Battistella, Jan Schniete, Katrina Wesencraft, Juan F Quintana, Gail McConnell

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eliana BattistellaDepartment of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
Jan SchnieteDepartment of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
Katrina WesencraftDepartment of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
Juan F QuintanaWellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Gail McConnellDepartment of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
University of Strathclyde · GBWellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K015583/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid imaging of large biological tissue specimens such as ultrathick sections of mouse brain cannot easily be performed with a standard microscope. Optical mesoscopy offers a solution, but thus far imaging has been too slow to be useful for routine use. We have developed two different illuminators for light-sheet mesoscopy with the Mesolens and we demonstrate their use in high-speed optical mesoscale imaging of large tissue specimens. The first light-sheet approach uses Gaussian optics and is straightforward to implement. It provides excellent lateral resolution and high-speed imaging, but the axial resolution is poor. The second light-sheet is a more complex Airy light-sheet that provides sub-cellular resolution in three dimensions that is comparable in quality to point-scanning confocal mesoscopy, but the light-sheet method of illuminating the specimen reduces the imaging time by a factor of 14. This creates new possibilities for high-content, higher-throughput optical bioimaging at the mesoscale.

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Cell biologyoptical imagingoptics

Identifiers

PMID36034214
PMCPMC9404659
OpenAlexW4286268640

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