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Problem in microscopy solved after decades

April 18, 2024
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Flattened sample

Flattened sample

When viewing biological samples with a microscope, the light beam is disturbed if the lens of the objective is in a different medium than the sample. For example, when looking at a watery sample with a lens surrounded by air, the light rays bend more sharply in the air around the lens than in the water. This disturbance leads to the measured depth in the sample being smaller than the actual depth. As a result, the sample appears flattened. “This problem has been known for a long time, and since the 80s, theories have been developed to determine a corrective factor for determining the depth. However, all these theories assumed that this factor was constant, regardless of the depth in the sample. This happened despite the fact that the later Nobel laureate Stefan Hell pointed out in the 90s that this scaling could be depth-dependent”, explains Associate Professor Jacob Hoogenboom.

Calculations, experiments, and web tool

Sergey Loginov, a former postdoc at Delft University of Technology, has shown with calculations and a mathematical model that the sample indeed appears more strongly flattened closer to the lens than farther away. PhD candidate Daan Boltje and postdoc Ernest van der Wee subsequently confirmed in the lab that the corrective factor is depth-dependent. Van der Wee: “We have compiled our results into a web tool and software provided with the article. With these tools, anyone can determine the precise corrective factor for their experiment.”

Understanding abnormalities and diseases

“Partly thanks to our calculation tool, we can now very precisely cut out a protein and its surroundings from a biological system to determine the structure with electron microscopy. This type of microscopy is very complex, time-consuming, and incredibly expensive. Ensuring that you are looking at the right structure is therefore very important”, says Boltje. “With our more precise depth determination, we need to spend much less time and money on samples that have missed the biological target. Ultimately, we can study more relevant proteins and biological structures. And determining the precise structure of a protein in a biological system is crucial for understanding and ultimately combating abnormalities and diseases.”

About the web tool

In the web tool, you can fill in the relevant details of your experiment, such as the refractive indices, the aperture angle of the objective, and the wavelength of the light used. The tool then displays the curve for the depth-dependent scaling factor. You can also export this data for your own use. Additionally, you can plot the result in combination with the result of each of the existing theories.



Journal

Optica

DOI

10.1364/OPTICA.520595

Method of Research

Experimental study

Subject of Research

People

Article Title

Depth-dependent scaling of axial distances in light microscopy

Article Publication Date

18-Apr-2024

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