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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23249-y
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- MEXT/JSPS [JP19K12218, JP20H05038, JP15H05952]
- MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H06280]
- AMED [JP20gm1210001]
- Nakatani Foundation for advancement of measuring technologies in biomedical engineering
- Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation
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The use of two-photon excitation in light-sheet microscopy is limited by its narrow excitation range, but a new illumination optics proposed in this study aims to generate longer extent Bessel beams to address this limitation. A microscope constructed with this technique allows for long-term time-lapse observations and high-speed recording with similar to 2-3-μm axial resolution, expanding the applications of two-photon excitation in light-sheet microscopy.
Two-photon excitation can lower phototoxicity and improve penetration depth, but its narrow excitation range restricts its applications in light-sheet microscopy. Here, we propose simple illumination optics, a lens-axicon triplet composed of an axicon and two convex lenses, to generate longer extent Bessel beams. This unit can stretch the beam full width at half maximum of 600-1000 mu m with less than a 4-mu m waist when using a 10x illumination lens. A two-photon excitation digital scanned light-sheet microscope possessing this range of field of view and similar to 2-3-mu m axial resolution is constructed and used to analyze the cellular dynamics over the whole body of medaka fish. We demonstrate long-term time-lapse observations over several days and high-speed recording with similar to 3 mm(3) volume per 4s of the embryos. Our system is minimal and suppresses laser power loss, which can broaden applications of two-photon excitation in light-sheet microscopy.
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