Controlled power delivery for super-resolution imaging of biological samples using digital micromirror device

Liyana Valiya Peedikakkal; Ashley Cadby

doi:10.1117/12.2266678

20 February 2017 Controlled power delivery for super-resolution imaging of biological samples using digital micromirror device

Liyana Valiya Peedikakkal, Ashley Cadby

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Proceedings Volume 10117, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications IX; 101170E (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266678
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Localization based super resolution images of a biological sample is generally achieved by using high power laser illumination with long exposure time which unfortunately increases photo-toxicity of a sample, making super resolution microscopy, in general, incompatible with live cell imaging. Furthermore, the limitation of photobleaching reduces the ability to acquire time lapse images of live biological cells using fluorescence microscopy. Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology can deliver light at grey scale levels by flickering digital micromirrors at around 290 Hz enabling highly controlled power delivery to samples. In this work, Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) is implemented in an inverse Schiefspiegler telescope setup to control the power and pattern of illumination for super resolution microscopy. We can achieve spatial and temporal patterning of illumination by controlling the DMD pixel by pixel. The DMD allows us to control the power and spatial extent of the laser illumination. We have used this to show that we can reduce the power delivered to the sample to allow for longer time imaging in one area while achieving sub-diffraction STORM imaging in another using higher power densities.

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Liyana Valiya Peedikakkal and Ashley Cadby "Controlled power delivery for super-resolution imaging of biological samples using digital micromirror device", Proc. SPIE 10117, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications IX, 101170E (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266678

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