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    01/01/11 | Probing tension and dynamics in actomyosin mediated cell shape change.
    Higgins CD, Tulu US, Gao L, Betzig E, Kiehart DP, Goldstein B
    Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2011;22:
    01/01/11 | Pupil-segmentation-based adaptive optics for microscopy.
    Ji N, Milkie DE, Betzig E
    Proceedings of SPIE. 2011;7931:79310I. doi: 10.1117/12.876398

    Inhomogeneous optical properties of biological samples make it difficult to obtain diffraction-limited resolution in depth. Correcting the sample-induced optical aberrations needs adaptive optics (AO). However, the direct wavefront-sensing approach commonly used in astronomy is not suitable for most biological samples due to their strong scattering of light. We developed an image-based AO approach that is insensitive to sample scattering. By comparing images of the sample taken with different segments of the pupil illuminated, local tilt in the wavefront is measured from image shift. The aberrated wavefront is then obtained either by measuring the local phase directly using interference or with phase reconstruction algorithms similar to those used in astronomical AO. We implemented this pupil-segmentation-based approach in a two-photon fluorescence microscope and demonstrated that diffraction-limited resolution can be recovered from nonbiological and biological samples.

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