Acronyms

= LISH Alphabet =


 * 2P-DLSM (2012),
 * 2P3A-DLSM (2014),
 * 2p-SPIM (2010),
 * 2PE-SPIM (2013),
 * AO-SPIM (2012),
 * BBPI (Besel Beam Plane Illumination) (2011),
 * Confocal light sheet microscopy (CLSM) (2012),
 * COLM (Clarity Optimized Light-sheet Microscopy)(2014),
 * DiSPIM (Dual view inclined SPIM)(2013),
 * DSLM (Digital Scanned Laser light-sheet fluorescence Microscopy)(2008),
 * DSLM-SI (Digital Scanned Laser light sheet fluorescence Microscopy Structured Illumination)(2010),
 * EzDSLM (Easy Digital Scanned Laser light sheet Microscopy)(2012),
 * FLIM-SPIM (Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging SPIM)(2011),
 * HILO (Highly Inclined Laminated Optical sheet)(2010),
 * HR-OPFOS (High Resolution OPFOS)(2007),
 * IML-SPIM (2013),
 * iSPIM (Inclined SPIM) (2012),
 * iSPIM (diSPIM) (Inverted) (2011),
 * iSPIM (inclined, 2012),
 * L-OpenSPIM (2013),
 * Lattice SPIM (2015),
 * Light Sheet Z.1,
 * LISH, prism-coupled light-sheet Bayesian microscopy LSBM (Light Sheet Bayesian Microscopy) (2013),
 * LSFM (Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy) (2011),
 * LSP (Light Scanning Photomacrography)	(1960),
 * miniSPIM (miniaturized fiber-optic implementation of SPIM)	(2010),
 * MISERB (MIcroscopy Self Reconstructing Beam) (2010),
 * MLSM (Multiple Light Sheet Microscopy) (2014),
 * mSPIM (2007),
 * MuVi-SPIM (Multi View SPIM) (2012),
 * OCPI (Objective Coupled Planar Illumination) (2008)
 * OPFOS (1993),
 * OLSM (Oblique Light Sheet Microscopes) (2012),
 * OPM (2008),
 * OpenSPIM (2013),
 * L-OpenSPIM
 * T-OpenSPIM
 * X-OpenSPIM (fantasy)
 * OpenSPIM Farm
 * OPFOS (Orthogonal Plane Fluorescence Optical Microscopy) (1993),
 * OPM (Oblique Plane Microscopy) (2008),
 * OPTiSPIM (Optical Projection Tomography inverted SPIM) (2014),
 * PCLSM: (Prism-Coupled Light Sheet Microscopy)	(2013),
 * PLIF (2009)
 * RLSM (Reflected Light Sheet Microscopy) (2013),
 * SCAPE (Swept Confocally-aligned planar excitation) (2015),
 * SiMView (Simultaneous MultiView imaging) (2012),
 * STED-SPIM (STimulated Emission Depletion SPIM) (2011),
 * sTSLIM (scanning Thin Sheet Laser Imaging Microscope)	(2012),
 * SPIM (selective or single, 2004),
 * SPIM-FCS (SPIM Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy) (2010),
 * SPIM-FCCS (SPIM Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy (2014),
 * SPIM-SI (2007),
 * TC-LSFM (2014),
 * TLSM (Thin Light Sheet Microscopy) (2002),
 * TSLIM: (Thin Sheet Laser Imaging Microscopy) (2009),
 * UM (2007)
 * Ultramicroscope BTLSM (Bi-directional Triple Light Sheet Microscopy) (2009),
 * UltraMicroscope II BTLSM (Bi-directional Triple Light Sheet Microscopy) (2014),
 * WAO-SPIM (Wavefront sensor Adaptive Optics SPIM) (2012),

= Date of appearance: =


 * OPFOS (1993)
 * TSLM (2002)
 * SPIM (selective or single, 2004)
 * mSPIM (2007) SPIM-SI (2007) UM (1903, 2007)
 * DSLM (2008) OCPI (2008), OPM (2008),
 * HR-OPFOS (2009) PLIF (2009) TSLIM (2009)
 * 2p-SPIM (2010) DSLM-SI (2010) MISERB (2010) SPIM-FCS (2010)
 * FLIM-SPIM (2011) iSPIM (diSPIM) (inverted, 2011) STED-SPIM (2011)
 * AO-SPIM (2012) (CLSM) (2012) EzDSLM (2012) iSPIM (inclined, 2012) MuVi-SPIM (2012) Oblique Light Sheet Microscopes (OLSM) (2012) WAO-SPIM (2012) SiMView (2012) Light Sheet Z.1 (2012)
 * 2PE-SPIM (2013) IML-SPIM (2013) OpenSPIM (2013), RLSM (2013), LSBM (2013),
 * MLSM (2014) OPTiSPIM (2014) SPIM-FCCS (2014)

= Alphabet score (overall) =


 * 1) S (40) Sheet
 * 2) M (38) Microscopy
 * 3) I (34) Illumination
 * 4) P (26) Plane, Planar
 * 5) L (18) Light
 * 6) O (11) Oblique, Orthogonal
 * 7) E (8)
 * 8) T (6)
 * 9) C (5), D (5), F (5),
 * 10) H (4),
 * 11) U (3), R (3),
 * 12) A (2), V (2), W (2), Z (2), 2 (2), B ,
 * 13) N (1), G (1),

= Distance score =



Calculated with Levenshtein_distance: minimum number of single-character edits (i.e. insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other. Root acronym was set to OPFOS (oldest).