Extended depth-of-field microscopy with a high-speed deformable mirror

Opt Lett. 2017 Mar 1;42(5):995-998. doi: 10.1364/OL.42.000995.

Abstract

We present a wide-field fluorescence microscopy add-on that provides a fast, light-efficient extended depth-of-field (EDOF) using a deformable mirror with an update rate of 20 kHz. Out-of-focus contributions in the raw EDOF images are suppressed with a deconvolution algorithm derived directly from the microscope 3D optical transfer function. Demonstrations of the benefits of EDOF microscopy are shown with GCaMP-labeled mouse brain tissue.