Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Institute of Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK.
J Biophotonics. 2020 Jun;13(6):e201960239. doi: 10.1002/jbio.201960239. Epub 2020 Mar 12.
We report a flexible light-sheet fluorescence microscope (LSFM) designed for studying dynamic events in cardiac tissue at high speed in 3D and the correlation of these events to cell microstructure. The system employs two illumination-detection modes: the first uses angle-dithering of a Gaussian light sheet combined with remote refocusing of the detection plane for video-rate volumetric imaging; the second combines digitally-scanned light-sheet illumination with an axially-swept light-sheet waist and stage-scanned acquisition for improved axial resolution compared to the first mode. We present a characterisation of the spatial resolution of the system in both modes. The first illumination-detection mode achieves dual spectral-channel imaging at 25 volumes per second with 1024 × 200 × 50 voxel volumes and is demonstrated by time-lapse imaging of calcium dynamics in a live cardiomyocyte. The second illumination-detection mode is demonstrated through the acquisition of a higher spatial resolution structural map of the t-tubule network in a fixed cardiomyocyte cell.
我们报告了一种灵活的光片荧光显微镜 (LSFM),旨在高速 3D 研究心脏组织中的动态事件,并将这些事件与细胞微观结构相关联。该系统采用两种照明-检测模式:第一种模式使用高斯光片的角度抖动结合检测平面的远程聚焦,用于视频速率体积成像; 第二种模式将数字扫描的光片照明与轴向扫描的光片腰结合,并通过与第一种模式相比提高轴向分辨率来进行台扫描采集。我们在两种模式下对系统的空间分辨率进行了特征描述。第一种照明-检测模式以每秒 25 个体积的速度实现双光谱通道成像,具有 1024×200×50 体素体积,并通过对活心肌细胞中钙动力学的延时成像进行了演示。第二种照明-检测模式通过获取固定心肌细胞中 t-小管网络的更高空间分辨率结构图进行了演示。