Optical microscopy has witnessed notable advancements but has also become more costly and complex. Conventional wide field microscopy (WFM) has low resolution and shallow depth-of-field (DOF), which limits its applications in practical biological experiments. Recently, confocal and light sheet microscopy become major workhorses for biology that incorporate high-precision scanning to perform imaging within an extended DOF but at the sacrifice of expense, complexity, and imaging speed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcetaminophen overdose is a leading cause of acute liver failure (ALF). Despite the pivotal role of the inflammatory microenvironment in the progression of advanced acetaminophen-induced liver injury (AILI), a comprehensive understanding of the underlying cellular interactions and molecular mechanisms remains elusive. Mas is a G protein-coupled receptor highly expressed by myeloid cells; however, its role in the AILI microenvironment remains to be elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-speed three-dimensional (3D) intravital imaging in animals is useful for studying transient subcellular interactions and functions in health and disease. Light-field microscopy (LFM) provides a computational solution for snapshot 3D imaging with low phototoxicity but is restricted by low resolution and reconstruction artifacts induced by optical aberrations, motion and noise. Here, we propose virtual-scanning LFM (VsLFM), a physics-based deep learning framework to increase the resolution of LFM up to the diffraction limit within a snapshot.
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