Zebrafish is a well-established animal model for developmental and disease studies. Its optical transparency at early developmental stages is ideal for tissue visualization. Interaction of light with zebrafish tissues provides information on their structure and properties. In this study, we developed a microscopic imaging system for improving the visualization of unstained zebrafish tissues on tissue slides, with two different setups: polarized light imaging and polarized hyperspectral imaging. Based on the polarized light imaging setup, we collected the RGB images of Stokes vector parameters (S0, S1, S2, and S3), and calculated the Stokes vector derived parameters: the degree of polarization (DOP), the degree of linear polarization (DOLP)). We also calculated Stokes vector data based on the polarized hyperspectral imaging setup. The preliminary results demonstrate that Stokes vector data in two imaging setups (polarized light imaging and polarized hyperspectral imaging) are capable of improving the visualization of different types of zebrafish tissues (brain, muscle, skin cells, blood vessels, and yolk). Using the images collected from larval zebrafish samples by polarized light imaging, we found that DOP and DOLP could show clearer structural information of the brain and of skin cells, muscle and blood vessels in the tail. Furthermore, DOP and DOLP parameters derived from images collected by polarized hyperspectral imaging could show clearer structural information of skin cells developing around yolk as well as the surrounding blood vessel network. In addition, polarized hyperspectral imaging could provide complementary spectral information to the spatial information on Stokes vector data of zebrafish tissues. The polarized light imaging & polarized hyperspectral imaging systems provide a better insight into the microstructures of zebrafish tissues.
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