Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Automatic and adaptive heterogeneous refractive index compensation for light-sheet microscopy

  • Duncan P. Ryan,
  • Elizabeth A. Gould,
  • Gregory J. Seedorf,
  • Omid Masihzadeh,
  • Steven H. Abman,
  • Sukumar Vijayaraghavan,
  • Wendy B. Macklin,
  • Diego Restrepo,
  • Douglas P. Shepherd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00514-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Optical clearing of tissue has enabled optical imaging deeper into tissue due to significantly reduced light scattering. Here, Ryan et al. tackle first-order defocus, an artefact of a non-uniform refractive index, extending light-sheet microscopy to partially cleared samples.