Abstract
Sample induced optical aberrations in slices of rat brain tissue have been corrected with a deformable membrane mirror. The aberration correction required by the DMM was determined using a genetic algorithm with the intensity at a point in the sample as a fitness value. We show that by optimising on the intensity of a single point in the sample we are able to improve the axial resolution across the whole field of view of the image at a fixed sample depth. The ratio between the corrected axial resolution and the diffraction limited resolution is on average 2.7 for a 50 µm thick rat brain tissue sample and 12 for a 380 µm thick sample across the whole field of view. The uncorrected ratio being 4.1 and 15.5 respectively. Using a single aberration correction per depth, compared to a point-by-point aberration correction, will significantly decrease scan times and therefore reduce photobleaching and phototoxic effects enabling more rapid microscopy with active aberration correction.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 64420T |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 6442 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- confocal microscopy
- multiphoton microscopy
- adaptive optics
- aberration correction
- spherical-aberration
- mirror
- implementation
- system
- water