Hsiao CY, Sun Y, Chen WL, Tung CK, Lo W, Su JW, Lin SJ, Jee SH, Jan GJ, Dong CY. Effects of different immersion media in multiphoton imaging of the epithelium and dermis of human skin.
Microsc Res Tech 2006;
69:992-7. [PMID:
16981195 DOI:
10.1002/jemt.20377]
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Abstract
In this work, we compared the performance of objectives with similar numerical aperture of 0.75 but different immersion media of air, water, glycerin, and oil in the imaging of human skin epithelium and dermis. In general, we found that the oil immersion objective recorded the strongest intensity at the same mechanical depth. We also characterized the focal shifts and found that with decreasing refractive index, the focal shift becomes increasingly more negative (for both the epithelium and dermis). In imaging the dermis, we estimated the image resolution at the depths of 18.8 and 30.2 microm, and found that the image resolution were comparable at these depths under the four types of immersion conditions. Our results demonstrate that by changing the immersion media, the main microscopic imaging effects are the recorded axial intensities and the focal shifts. The effects on the image resolution are negligible.
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