Multifocal multiphoton microscopy with adaptive optical correction

Coelho, Simao and Poland, Simon and Krstajic, Nikola and Li, David and Moneypenny, James and Walker, Richard and Tyndall, David and Ng, Tony and Henderson, Robert and Ameer-Beg, Simon; (2013) Multifocal multiphoton microscopy with adaptive optical correction. In: Proceedings of SPIE 8588. SPIE, USA. ISBN 9780819493576 (https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2000188)

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Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a well established approach for measuring dynamic signalling events inside living cells, including detection of protein-protein interactions. The improvement in optical penetration of infrared light compared with linear excitation due to Rayleigh scattering and low absorption have provided imaging depths of up to 1mm in brain tissue but significant image degradation occurs as samples distort (aberrate) the infrared excitation beam. Multiphoton time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) FLIM is a method for obtaining functional, high resolution images of biological structures. In order to achieve good statistical accuracy TCSPC typically requires long acquisition times. We report the development of a multifocal multiphoton microscope (MMM), titled MegaFLI. Beam parallelization performed via a 3D Gerchberg-Saxton (GS) algorithm using a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), increases TCSPC count rate proportional to the number of beamlets produced. A weighted 3D GS algorithm is employed to improve homogeneity. An added benefit is the implementation of flexible and adaptive optical correction. Adaptive optics performed by means of Zernike polynomials are used to correct for system induced aberrations. Here we present results with significant improvement in throughput obtained using a novel complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) 1024 pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, opening the way to truly highthroughput FLIM.

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Coelho, Simao, Poland, Simon, Krstajic, Nikola, Li, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-4263, Moneypenny, James, Walker, Richard, Tyndall, David, Ng, Tony, Henderson, Robert and Ameer-Beg, Simon;
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