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We investigate lensless endoscopy using coherent beam combining and aperiodic multicore fibers (MCF). We show that diffracted orders, inherent to MCF with periodically arranged cores, dramatically reduce the field of view (FoV) and that…

Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM), also known as light sheet fluorescence microscopy, provides high specificity through fluorescence labeling. However, it lacks complementary structural information from the surrounding context,…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-19 Rui Ma , Olga Lyraki , Daniel Wehner , Jochen Guck

Endoscopic imaging is essential for real-time visualization of internal organs, yet conventional systems remain bulky, complex, and expensive due to their reliance on large, multi-element optical components. This limits their accessibility…

Holographic multimode fibre endoscopes have recently shown their ability to unveil and monitor deep brain structures with sub-micrometre resolution, establishing themselves as a minimally-invasive technology with promising applications in…

The development of voltage-sensitive fluorescent probes suggests fluorescence lifetime as a promising readout for electrical activity in biological systems. Existing approaches fail to achieve the speed and sensitivity required for voltage…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-27 Adam J. Bowman , Cheng Huang , Mark J. Schnitzer , Mark A. Kasevich

Label-free nonlinear optical microscopy has become a powerful tool for biomedical research. However, the possible photodamage risk hinder further clinical applications. To reduce these adverse effects, we constructed a new platform of…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Geng Wang , Stephen A. Boppart , Haohua Tu

Dynamic full-field optical coherence microscopy (d-FF-OCM) is a label-free imaging technique that captures intrinsic subcellular motions to generate functional contrast. This dynamic approach yields images with fluorescence-like contrast,…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-06 Erikas Tarvydas , Austeja Treciokaite , Egidijus Auksorius

Two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) are powerful imaging techniques in bio-molecular science. The need for elaborate light sources for TPEF and speed limitations for FLIM, however,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-12 Matthias Eibl , Sebastian Karpf , Hubertus Hakert , Daniel Weng , Robert Huber

Advanced microscopy techniques are essential in biomedical research for visualising and tracking biomolecules within living cells and their compartments. Conventional fluorescence microscopy methods, however, often struggle with accurately…

The scanning fiber endoscope (SFE), an ultra-small optical imaging device with a large field-of-view (FOV) for having a clear forward view into the interior of blood vessels, has great potential in the cardio-vascular disease diagnosis and…

Conventional fiber-bundle-based endoscopes allow minimally invasive imaging through flexible multi-core fiber (MCF) bundles by placing a miniature lens at the distal tip and using each core as an imaging pixel. In recent years, lensless…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Gil Weinberg , Munkyu Kang , Wonjun Choi , Wonshik Choi , Ori Katz

We demonstrate volumetric fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) using the electro-optic FLIM technique. Images acquired in a selective plane illumination microscope are gated using a Pockels cell driven at 80 MHz, enabling light sheet…

There is a need for a cost-effective, quantitative imaging tool that can be deployed endoscopically to better detect early stage gastrointestinal cancers. Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) is a low-cost imaging technique that produces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Jane Crowley , George S. D. Gordon

Phase and polarisation of coherent light are highly perturbed by interaction with microstructural changes in pre-malignant tissue, holding promise for label-free early cancer detection in endoscopically accessible tissues such as the…

Label-free imaging of rapidly moving, sub-diffraction sized structures has important applications in both biology and material science, as it removes the limitations associated with fluorescence tagging. However, unlabeled nanoscale…

A flexible multimode fiber is an exceptionally efficient tool for in vivo deep tissue imaging. Recent advances in compressive multimode fiber sensing allow for imaging with sub-diffraction spatial resolution and sub-Nyquist speed. At…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Zhouping Lyu , Shih-Te Hung , Carlas S. Smith , Lyubov V. Amitonova

Label-free imaging has gained broad interest because of its potential to omit elaborate staining procedures which is especially relevant for in vivo use. Label-free multiphoton microscopy (MPM), for instance, exploits two-photon excitation…

Imaging through optical multimode fibers (MMFs) has the potential to enable hair-thin endoscopes that reduce the invasiveness of imaging deep inside tissues and organs. Current approaches predominantly require active wavefront shaping and…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-13 Szu-Yu Lee , Vicente J. Parot , Brett E. Bouma , Martin Villiger

Fibered confocal fluorescence microscopy (FCFM) is a new technique that can be used during a bronchoscopy to analyze the nature of the human bronchial and alveolar mucosa fluorescence microstructure. An endoscopic fibered confocal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 G. Bourg-Heckly , L. Thiberville , C. Vever-Bizet , B. Viellerobe

Optical fibers are widely used in bioimaging systems as flexible endoscopes capable of low-invasive penetration inside hollow tissue cavities. Here, we report on the technique which allows magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of hollow-core…