image restoration algorithms provide efficient tools for recovering part of the information lost in the imaging process of a microscope. We describe recent progress in the application of deconvolution to confocal micr...
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image restoration algorithms provide efficient tools for recovering part of the information lost in the imaging process of a microscope. We describe recent progress in the application of deconvolution to confocal microscopy. The point spread function of a Biorad-MRC1024 confocal microscope was measured under various imaging conditions, and used to process 3D-confocal images acquired in an intact preparation of the inner ear developed at Karolinska Institutet. Using these experiments we investigate the application of deionizing methods based on wavelet analysis as a natural regularization of the deconvolution process. Within the Bayesian approach to image restoration, we compare wavelet denoising with the use of a maximum entropy constraint as another natural regularization method. Numerical experiments performed with test images show a clear advantage of the wavelet deionizing approach, allowing to `cool down' the image with respect to the signal, while suppressing much of the fine-scale artefacts appearing during deconvolution due to the presence of noise, incomplete knowledge of the point spread function, or undersampling problems. We further describe a natural development of this approach, which consists of performing the Bayesian inference directly in the wavelet domain.
There exist a number of fluorescent probes whose lifetimes change in response to ion concentrations (for example H+ and Ca2+) in the surrounding medium. We describe a technique for utilizing this property in a confoca...
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There exist a number of fluorescent probes whose lifetimes change in response to ion concentrations (for example H+ and Ca2+) in the surrounding medium. We describe a technique for utilizing this property in a confocal scanning laser microscope. The technique is based on intensity-modulated laser illumination of the specimen, and phase-sensitive lock-in detection of the fluorescent light. In this way we get a lifetime-dependent output signal which, after calibration, can provide information concerning ion concentrations. In the current study we have used a pH sensitive fluorophore, SNAFL-2, to study the performance of this technique. We find that the sensitivity is such that a pH difference of 0.1 units can easily be detected in an 8-bit digital image. Noise measurements show that under realistic conditions we can expect a pixel-to-pixel standard deviation of approximately one to two pH units.
The interactions of macromolecules in space and time are known to be important for the regulation of many biochemical reactions. image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) was recently introduced as an imaging analog of flu...
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The interactions of macromolecules in space and time are known to be important for the regulation of many biochemical reactions. image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) was recently introduced as an imaging analog of fluorescence correlation aspectroscopy (FCS) optimized for measuring the aggregation state of fluorescently labeled macromolecules on the surface of biological cells. We present two novel developments of dynamic ICS that will greatly enhance our abilities to measure molecular interactions as a function of time and space in living cells. We illustrate the use of a rapid scan two-photon microscope system to collect image series at high time resolution (30 frames/s) for dynamic ICS analysis. Secondly, we demonstrate the implementation of two-color image cross-correlation spectroscopy (ICCS) with a CLSM using multiple wavelength excitation, and with two-photon excitation of samples containing two different fluorescent species. Cross-correlation analysis allows the degree of co-localization of two different fluorophores to be measured directly. By performing two-color ICCS, we can monitor the interactions of non-identical labeled macromolecules as a function of time and space. We describe the experimental setup for both methods and illustrate the application for measurements of the diffusion coefficients of singly and doubly labeled fluorescent microspheres in aqueous solutions.
The purpose of the investigation was to elaborate a new method of functional imaging of living tumor cells. Human colon carcinoma cells HCT116 were investigated with a conventional light microscope, confocal laser sca...
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The purpose of the investigation was to elaborate a new method of functional imaging of living tumor cells. Human colon carcinoma cells HCT116 were investigated with a conventional light microscope, confocal laser scanning microscope and with a laser phase microscope (LPM). The LPM is a functional imaging technique providing information about cell morphology which is imposed by the physiological inhomogeneity of the refractive index. The phase of the light wave passing through an object contains quantitative information about the object thickness, the shape, and the spatial distribution of the refractive index varying with morphology and chemical composition inhomogeneity inside the object. The new method of investigation of the cells in different stages of the cell cycle is developed. Every phase image of the investigated cells has been compared with conventional light microscopic and confocal microscopic images of the same cell. The relation between the cell state, their morphological peculiarities and the phase characteristics of the measured cell is determined. Data thus acquired, quantitatively characterizing intra- and intercellular processes during the cell cycle, and the method of measurements can be used to investigate with high optic resolution the mechanisms of different physical, chemical and biomolecular interactions with the tumor cells.
image compression in microscopy is a valuable technique, in particular if applied to multidimensional data. Information-preserving and competitive information-losing compression is applied to microscopical data and th...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
image compression in microscopy is a valuable technique, in particular if applied to multidimensional data. Information-preserving and competitive information-losing compression is applied to microscopical data and the resulting image quality is evaluated on a quantitative basis both in the spatial and frequency domain. Included are image data featuring different signal-to-noise ratios, but also voxel data for volume representations as well as graphical data for surface representations. The effect of compression on 3-D visualization and image management with data bases is included.
It is shown that based on spectrally selective excitation of individual molecules in the focus of a high NA lens together with position sensitive imaging sub-resolution imaging of three-dimensional structures can be r...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
It is shown that based on spectrally selective excitation of individual molecules in the focus of a high NA lens together with position sensitive imaging sub-resolution imaging of three-dimensional structures can be realised. The feasibility of the idea is demonstrated with NA=0.55 optics on a model system of pentacene molecules in p-terphenal host matrix.
The use of three-dimensional reconstruction methods to estimate the cell volume of astroglial cells in primary culture was studied. Two-dimensional microscopic images were collected by using an automated image-acquisi...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
The use of three-dimensional reconstruction methods to estimate the cell volume of astroglial cells in primary culture was studied. Two-dimensional microscopic images were collected by using an automated image-acquisition system. The images were reconstructed by the Linear Maximum a Posteriori method and the non-linear Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization (ML-EM) method. A fast variant of the ML-EM method was also developed. Results of this study show that the ML-EM reconstructed images are adequate for the determination of volume changes in cells or parts thereof.
An affordable, robust and easy-to-use fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) workstation that is completely automated and does not need any difficult calibration procedure is introduced. The workstation consi...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
An affordable, robust and easy-to-use fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) workstation that is completely automated and does not need any difficult calibration procedure is introduced. The workstation consists of a standard fluorescence microscope, a modulated excitation light source, a camera, a modulation signal generator and acquisition/processing software. An evaluation of the system and its critical components is presented.
Confocal theta microscopy improves the resolution of confocal laser scanning microscopes by instrumentally solving the problem of the inferior axial resolution. A technical variation of this microscopy technique, the ...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
Confocal theta microscopy improves the resolution of confocal laser scanning microscopes by instrumentally solving the problem of the inferior axial resolution. A technical variation of this microscopy technique, the Single-Lens Theta microscopy (SLTM), is designed to be easily adapted to any common confocal laser scanning microscope. With SLTM, different kinds of other microscopical techniques are possible.
We present a novel light efficient technique for obtaining optically sectioned images in wide-field microscopy. The technique is a further development of correlation microscopy and is based on using complementary stru...
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(纸本)0819430757;9780819430755
We present a novel light efficient technique for obtaining optically sectioned images in wide-field microscopy. The technique is a further development of correlation microscopy and is based on using complementary structured light patterns to illuminate the specimen together with uncomplicated post-processing of the captured images.
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