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Xie H, Han X, Xiao G, Xu H, Zhang Y, Zhang G, Li Q, He J, Zhu D, Yu X, Dai Q. Multifocal fluorescence video-rate imaging of centimetre-wide arbitrarily shaped brain surfaces at micrometric resolution. Nat Biomed Eng 2023:10.1038/s41551-023-01155-6. [PMID: 38057428 DOI: 10.1038/s41551-023-01155-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Fluorescence microscopy allows for the high-throughput imaging of cellular activity across brain areas in mammals. However, capturing rapid cellular dynamics across the curved cortical surface is challenging, owing to trade-offs in image resolution, speed, field of view and depth of field. Here we report a technique for wide-field fluorescence imaging that leverages selective illumination and the integration of focal areas at different depths via a spinning disc with varying thickness to enable video-rate imaging of previously reconstructed centimetre-scale arbitrarily shaped surfaces at micrometre-scale resolution and at a depth of field of millimetres. By implementing the technique in a microscope capable of acquiring images at 1.68 billion pixels per second and resolving 16.8 billion voxels per second, we recorded neural activities and the trajectories of neutrophils in real time on curved cortical surfaces in live mice. The technique can be integrated into many microscopes and macroscopes, in both reflective and fluorescence modes, for the study of multiscale cellular interactions on arbitrarily shaped surfaces.
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- Hao Xie
- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics - MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics - Advanced Biomedical Imaging Facility, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Furieri T, Bassi A, Bonora S. Large field of view aberrations correction with deformable lenses and multi conjugate adaptive optics. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2023; 16:e202300104. [PMID: 37556187 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202300104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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Optical microscopes can have limited resolution due to aberrations caused by samples and sample holders. Using deformable mirrors and wavefront sensorless optimization algorithms can correct these aberrations, but the correction is limited to a small area of the field of view. This study presents an adaptive optics method that uses a series of plug-and-play deformable lenses for large field of view wavefront correction. A direct wavefront measurement method using the spinning sub-pupil aberration measurement technique is combined with correction based on the deformable lenses. Experimental results using fluorescence microscopy with a wide field and a light sheet fluorescence microscope show that the proposed method can achieve detection and correction over an extended field of view with a compact transmissive module placed in the detection path of the microscope. This method could improve the resolution and accuracy of imaging in a variety of fields, including biology and materials science.
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- T Furieri
- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, National Council of Research of Italy, Padova, Italy
- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, National Council of Research of Italy, Padova, Italy
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Feng W, Liu CJ, Wang L, Zhang C. An optical clearing imaging window: Realization of mouse brain imaging and manipulation through scalp and skull. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2023; 43:2105-2119. [PMID: 36999642 PMCID: PMC10925863 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x231167729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
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Cortical visualization is essential to understand the dynamic changes in brain microenvironment under physiopathological conditions. However, the turbid scalp and skull severely limit the imaging depth and resolution. Existing cranial windows require invasive scalp excision and various subsequent skull treatments. Non-invasive in vivo imaging of skull bone marrow, meninges, and cortex through scalp and skull with high resolution yet remains a challenge. In this work, a non-invasive trans-scalp/skull optical clearing imaging window is proposed for cortical and calvarial imaging, which is achieved by applying a novel skin optical clearing reagent. The imaging depth and resolution are greatly enhanced in near infrared imaging and optical coherence tomography imaging. Combining this imaging window with adaptive optics, we achieve the visualization and manipulation of the calvarial and cortical microenvironment through the scalp and skull using two-photon imaging for the first time. Our method provides a well-performed imaging window and paves the way for intravital brain studies with the advantages of easy-operation, convenience and non-invasiveness.
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- Wei Feng
- Zhanjiang Institute of Clinical Medicine, Central People's Hospital of Zhanjiang, Zhanjiang, China
- Zhanjiang Central Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
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- Center for Artificial Intelligence Biology, Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Zhanjiang Institute of Clinical Medicine, Central People's Hospital of Zhanjiang, Zhanjiang, China
- Zhanjiang Central Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
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- Zhanjiang Institute of Clinical Medicine, Central People's Hospital of Zhanjiang, Zhanjiang, China
- Zhanjiang Central Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
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Zhang K, Li J, Sun S, Wang J, Yu S. Optical system design of double-sided telecentric microscope with high numerical aperture and long working distance. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:23518-23532. [PMID: 37475433 DOI: 10.1364/oe.496322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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The working distance of the high numerical aperture visible video microscope is extremely short, which greatly limits its application scenarios. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an unobstructed design method of double-sided telecentric microscope with high numerical aperture and long working distance. First, aiming at the obstruction problem of the image-side telecentric catadioptric microscope objective, the structure of the catadioptric optical system is improved. Then, the aspheric design method based on the best aberration compensation is analyzed theoretically to better correct the primary aberration of the high-numerical aperture microscope objective. Finally, a double-sided telecentric microscope optical system with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.8 and a working distance of 10.0 mm was designed, which is composed of a spherical reflector, a beam splitter plate, a collimating lens group, and an image-side telecentric eyepiece optical system. The design results show that the imaging resolution of this high numerical aperture video microscope is as high as 0.42 µm, and the microscope has a magnification of about 220× for the image with 1080P (1920 × 1080 pixels) resolution. This double-sided telecentric microscope has the advantages of a large field of view, compact structure, good stray light suppression ability, and manufacturability, and has high practical value in the field of high-precision measurement and detection.
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Furieri T, Ancora D, Calisesi G, Morara S, Bassi A, Bonora S. Aberration measurement and correction on a large field of view in fluorescence microscopy. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:262-273. [PMID: 35154869 PMCID: PMC8803008 DOI: 10.1364/boe.441810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The aberrations induced by the sample and/or by the sample holder limit the resolution of optical microscopes. Wavefront correction can be achieved using a deformable mirror with wavefront sensorless optimization algorithms but, despite the complexity of these systems, the level of correction is often limited to a small area in the field of view of the microscope. In this work, we present a plug and play module for aberration measurement and correction. The wavefront correction is performed through direct wavefront reconstruction using the spinning-pupil aberration measurement and controlling a deformable lens in closed loop. The lens corrects the aberrations in the center of the field of view, leaving residual aberrations at the margins, that are removed by anisoplanatic deconvolution. We present experimental results obtained in fluorescence microscopy, with a wide field and a light sheet fluorescence microscope. These results indicate that detection and correction over the full field of view can be achieved with a compact transmissive module placed in the detection path of the fluorescence microscope.
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- T. Furieri
- National Council of Research of Italy, Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, via Trasea 7, 35131, Padova, Italy
- University of Padova, Department of Information Engineering, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Physics, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Physics, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- National Council of Research of Italy, Institute of Neuroscience, via Vanvitelli 32, 20129, Milan, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Physics, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- National Council of Research of Italy, Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, via Trasea 7, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Wang J, Zhang Y. Adaptive optics in super-resolution microscopy. BIOPHYSICS REPORTS 2021; 7:267-279. [PMID: 37287764 PMCID: PMC10233472 DOI: 10.52601/bpr.2021.210015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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Fluorescence microscopy has become a routine tool in biology for interrogating life activities with minimal perturbation. While the resolution of fluorescence microscopy is in theory governed only by the diffraction of light, the resolution obtainable in practice is also constrained by the presence of optical aberrations. The past two decades have witnessed the advent of super-resolution microscopy that overcomes the diffraction barrier, enabling numerous biological investigations at the nanoscale. Adaptive optics, a technique borrowed from astronomical imaging, has been applied to correct for optical aberrations in essentially every microscopy modality, especially in super-resolution microscopy in the last decade, to restore optimal image quality and resolution. In this review, we briefly introduce the fundamental concepts of adaptive optics and the operating principles of the major super-resolution imaging techniques. We highlight some recent implementations and advances in adaptive optics for active and dynamic aberration correction in super-resolution microscopy.
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- Jingyu Wang
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou 310024, China
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Efstathiou C, Draviam VM. Electrically tunable lenses - eliminating mechanical axial movements during high-speed 3D live imaging. J Cell Sci 2021; 134:271866. [PMID: 34409445 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.258650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The successful investigation of photosensitive and dynamic biological events, such as those in a proliferating tissue or a dividing cell, requires non-intervening high-speed imaging techniques. Electrically tunable lenses (ETLs) are liquid lenses possessing shape-changing capabilities that enable rapid axial shifts of the focal plane, in turn achieving acquisition speeds within the millisecond regime. These human-eye-inspired liquid lenses can enable fast focusing and have been applied in a variety of cell biology studies. Here, we review the history, opportunities and challenges underpinning the use of cost-effective high-speed ETLs. Although other, more expensive solutions for three-dimensional imaging in the millisecond regime are available, ETLs continue to be a powerful, yet inexpensive, contender for live-cell microscopy.
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- Christoforos Efstathiou
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences , Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences , Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK
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Wu YC, Chang JC, Chang CY. Adaptive optics for dynamic aberration compensation using parallel model-based controllers based on a field programmable gate array. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:21129-21142. [PMID: 34265906 DOI: 10.1364/oe.428247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Adaptive optics (AO) is an effective technique for compensating the aberrations in optical systems and restoring their performance for various applications such as image formation, laser processing, and beam shaping. To reduce the controller complexity and extend the compensation capacity from static aberrations to dynamic disturbances, the present study proposes an AO system consisting of a self-built Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWS), a deformable mirror (DM), and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based controllers. This AO system is developed for tracking static and dynamic disturbances and tuning the controller parameters as required to achieve rapid compensation of the incoming wavefront. In the proposed system, the FPGA estimates the coefficients of the eight Zernike modes based on the SHWS with CameraLink operated at 200 Hz. The estimated coefficients are then processed by eight parallel independent discrete controllers to generate the voltage vectors to drive the DM to compensate the aberrations. To have the DM model for controller design, the voltage vectors are identified offline and are optimized by closed-loop controllers. Furthermore, the controller parameters are tuned dynamically in accordance with the main frequency of the aberration as determined by a fast Fourier transform (FFT) process. The experimental results show that the AO system provides a low complexity and effective means of compensating both static aberrations and dynamic disturbance up to 20 Hz.
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Song X, Zhang H, Zhang Z, Zhao R, Jia D, Liu T. Design and characteristics of a Maxwell force-driven liquid lens. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:8323-8332. [PMID: 33820280 DOI: 10.1364/oe.418630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Varifocal lenses (especially large-aperture lenses), which are formed by two immiscible liquids based on electrowetting and dielectrophoretic effects, are usually modulated by an external high-voltage power source, with respect to the volume of the liquid. Hence, a Maxwell force-driven liquid lens with large aperture and low threshold voltage is proposed. With the polarization effect, the accumulated negative charges on the surface of the polyvinyl chloride/dibutyl adipate gel near the anode results in the generation of Maxwell force and deformation with cosine wave. The effect of surface roughness on wettability is linear with the cosine of the contact angle, leading to a sharp reduction in the threshold voltage when the volume of liquid is increased. When the volume of the droplet increases to 80 μl, the threshold voltage is about 10 V. Hence, the aperture of polarization effect-driven liquid lenses can potentially reach the centimeter level. Moreover, when Maxwell force increases, the lens ranges from concave to convex lens, which holds great promise in rich application such as those in light-sheet microscopes and virtual reality systems.
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Xu T, Lim YJ, Zheng Y, Jung M, Gaus K, Gardiner EE, Lee WM. Modified inverted selective plane illumination microscopy for sub-micrometer imaging resolution in polydimethylsiloxane soft lithography devices. LAB ON A CHIP 2020; 20:3960-3969. [PMID: 32940306 DOI: 10.1039/d0lc00598c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Moldable, transparent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer microdevices enable a broad range of complex studies of three-dimensional cellular networks in their microenvironment in vitro. However, the uneven distribution of refractive index change, external to PDMS devices and internally in the sample chamber, creates a significant optical path difference (OPD) that distorts the light sheet beam and so restricts diffraction limited performance. We experimentally showed that an OPD of 120 μm results in the broadening of the lateral point spread function by over 4-fold. In this paper, we demonstrate steps to adapt a commercial inverted selective plane illumination microscope (iSPIM) and remove the OPD so as to achieve sub-micrometer imaging ranging from 0.6 ± 0.04 μm to 0.91 ± 0.03 μm of a fluorescence biological sample suspended in regular saline (RI ≈1.34) enclosed in 1.2 to 2 mm thick micromolded PDMS microdevices. We have proven that the removal of the OPD from the external PDMS layer by refractive index (RI) matching with a readily accessible, inexpensive sucrose solution is critical to achieve a >3-fold imaging resolution improvement. To monitor the RI matching process, a single-mode fiber (SMF) illuminator was integrated into the iSPIM. To remove the OPD inside the PDMS channel, we used an electrically tunable lens (ETL) that par-focuses the light sheet beam with the detection objective lens and so minimised axial distortions to attain sub-micrometer imaging resolution. We termed this new light sheet imaging protocol as modified inverted selective plane illumination microscopy (m-iSPIM). Using the high spatial-temporal 3D imaging of m-iSPIM, we experimentally captured single platelet (≈2 μm) recruitment to a platelet aggregate (22.5 μm × 22.5 μm × 6 μm) under flow at a 150 μm depth within a microfluidic channel. m-iSPIM paves the way for the application of light sheet imaging to a wide range of 3D biological models in microfluidic devices which recapitulate features of the physiological microenvironment and elucidate subcellular responses.
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- Tienan Xu
- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. and ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. and ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia and ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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