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Subsurface fluorescence time-of-flight imaging using a large-format single-photon avalanche diode sensor for tumor depth assessment

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Yichen Feng

Significance: Fluorescence guidance is used clinically by surgeons to visualize anatomical and/or physiological phenomena in the surgical field that are difficult or impossible to detect by the naked eye. Such phenomena include tissue perfusion or molecula ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2024

Compact and effective photon-resolved image scanning microscope

Giorgio Tortarolo

Fluorescence confocal laser-scanning microscopy (LSM) is one of the most popular tools for life science research. This popularity is expected to grow thanks to single-photon array detectors tailored for LSM. These detectors offer unique single-photon spati ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2024

Plasmon-induced near-infrared fluorescence enhancement of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Giulia Tagliabue, Amirmostafa Amirjani, Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Sayyed Hashem Sajjadi, Shang-Jung Wu, Alessandra Antonucci, Theodoros Tsoulos

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emit near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence that is ideal for optical sensing. However, the low quantum yields diminish the sensor’s signal-to-noise ratio and limits the penetration depths for in vivo measurements. In this ...

2022

Exploring optically active defects in wide-bandgap materials using fluorescence microscopy

Evgenii Glushkov

Defects in solid-state systems can be both detrimental, deteriorating the quality of materials, or desired, thanks to the novel functionality they bring. Optically active point defects, producing fluorescent light, are a great example of the latter. Natura ...

EPFL2021

Correlative 3D microscopy of single cells using super-resolution and scanning ion-conductance microscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Georg Fantner, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer, Barney Frederick Drake, Vytautas Navikas

High-resolution live-cell imaging is necessary to study complex biological phenomena. Modern fluorescence microscopy methods are increasingly combined with complementary, label-free techniques to put the fluorescence information into the cellular context. ...

Nature Research2021

Biophysical applications of correlative scanning probe and super-resolution microscopy

Vytautas Navikas

Imaging live cells in their native environment is crucial for the understanding of complex biological phenomena. Modern optical microscopy methods such as fluorescence super-resolution microscopy are increasingly combined with complementary, label-free tec ...

EPFL2021

SPAD array technology enables fluctuation-contrast super-resolution in a confocal microscope

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A fluorescence correlation contrast is a straightforward approach to super-resolution imaging. Combining a SPAD array with a novel detection scheme (ISM), we obtain images with up to x4 times resolution enhancement. ...

OSA-SPIE2021

Optical diffraction tomography from single-molecule localization microscopy

Michaël Unser, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez, Emmanuel Emilien Louis Soubies

Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is a powerful method for the imaging of cellular structures. This modality delivers nanoscale resolution by sequentially activating a subset of fluorescent molecules and by extracting their super-resolved posi ...

2021

Large-Format Time-Gated SPAD Cameras for Real-Time Phasor-Based FLIM

Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is an imaging modality often used to monitor biochemical properties of a cell or a tissue. In addition to conventional fluorescence microscopy features, such as selective labeling and non-invasiveness, FLIM e ...

EPFL2021

Correction of spherical surface measurements by confocal microscopy

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses are nowadays widely used in optical systems. Characterizing their surface is essential to ensure their quality and to optimize their fabrication process. This is realized by optical surface profilers thanks to their vertical resoluti ...

2020

Development of novel experimental and computational methods for three-dimensional coherent and super-resolution microscopy

Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux

Optical microscopy is one widely used tool to study cell functions and the interaction of molecules at a sub-cellular level. Optical microscopy techniques can be broadly divided into two categories: partially coherent and incoherent. Coherent microscopy te ...

EPFL2020

Direct observation of water-mediated single-proton transport between hBN surface defects

Aleksandra Radenovic, Benoît Grosjean, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Evgenii Glushkov, Ahmet Avsar

Super-resolution microscopy of defects in a two-dimensional material unveils the transport of single proton charges at solid/water interfaces. Aqueous proton transport at interfaces is ubiquitous and crucial for a number of fields, ranging from cellular tr ...

2020

Time-lapse high-resolution microscopy to study the morphogenesis of microorganisms

Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent for the tuberculosis disease, is a bacterial pathogen thought to infect about a quarter of the global human population. It is the first cause of death among infectious diseases, and is most prevalent in low ...

EPFL2020

Active illumination and computational Methods for Temporal and Spectral Super-Resolution Microscopy

Christian Jaques

Light microscopy is a tool of paramount importance for biologists and has been constantly improved for the past four centuries. Despite many recent developments, microscopy techniques still require improvement, especially to reach better temporal and spect ...

EPFL2020

Temporal resolution doubling in fluorescence light-sheet microscopy via a hue-encoded shutter and regularization

Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling, Christian Jaques

Studying dynamic biological processes, such as heart development and function in zebrafish embryos, often relies on multi-channel fluorescence labeling to distinguish multiple anatomical features, yet also demands high frame rates to capture rapid cell mot ...

2020

Waveguide-Based Platform for Large-FOV Imaging of Optically Active Defects in 2D Materials

Aleksandra Radenovic, Suliana Manley, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Martina Lihter, Anna Archetti, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Evgenii Glushkov, Anton Stroganov, Vytautas Navikas, Mukeshchand Thakur

Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is a powerful tool that is routinely used for nanoscale optical imaging of biological samples. Recently, this approach has been applied to study optically active defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Such ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Scanning near-field optical microscopy with new probes and feedback modes

Anton Smirnov

Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) technique enables to overcome Abbe diffraction limit of far-field optics as well as to obtain simultaneously optical and topographical images. While the optical resolution of the method is limited by the apertu ...

EPFL2019

Super-resolution optical imaging: A comparison

Martinus Gijs, Gergely Huszka

Overcoming the classical diffraction limit in optical microscopy is known to be achievable by a variety of far-field and near-field microscopy techniques. More recently, so-called micro-object-based optical super-resolution microscopy techniques have emerg ...

2019

Black Lipid Membranes: Challenges in Simultaneous Quantitative Characterization by Electrophysiology and Fluorescence Microscopy

Stefan Matile, Esther Amstad, Maria Tsemperouli

Horizontal black lipid membranes (BLMs) enable optical microscopy to be combined with the electrophysiological measurements for studying ion channels, peptide pores, and ionophores. However, a careful literature review reveals that simultaneous fluorescenc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Imaging tissues and cells beyond the diffraction limit with structured illumination microscopy and Bayesian image reconstruction

Tomas Lukes, Jakub Pospisil

Background: Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a family of methods in optical fluorescence microscopy that can achieve both optical sectioning and super-resolution effects. SIM is a valuable method for high-resolution imaging of fixed cells or tis ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019