Light-sheet microscopy for everyone? Experience of building an OpenSPIM to study flatworm developmen...
Light-sheet microscopy for everyone? Experience of building an OpenSPIM to study flatworm development
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM a type of light-sheet microscopy) involves focusing a thin sheet of laser light through a specimen at right angles to the objective lens. As only the thin section of the specimen at the focal plane of the lens is illuminated, out of focus light is naturally absent and toxicity due to light (phototoxicit...
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Light-sheet microscopy for everyone? Experience of building an OpenSPIM to study flatworm development
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4929743
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4929743
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1471-213X
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1471-213X
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10.1186/s12861-016-0122-0