<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello List,<div><br></div><div>This conversation on a "sophisticated algorithm" to compute the off-axis oblique illumination got me to thinking about how it could be used with Nikon's 10x/0.3 water dipping lenses. Due to the objectives having only a 30 degree taper off the optical axis, you could cram 6 of them in a circle around a sample. It wouldn't be the best detection objective for really small samples, but I think it would work just fine with zebrafish embryos… Not sure about OPT though.</div><div><br></div><div>Any one care to chime in?!<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>On 2015-01-23 10:08, Balki K wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">You were saying that it requires a sophisticated reconstruction algorithm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">because of the non-uniform pixel spacings.<br></blockquote><br><br>Yes. As you can see from the figure I linked to earlier:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Please keep in mind that I bring the software engineering expertise to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the OpenSPIM project in our lab, not the optics expertise (you probably<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have much more knowledge of optics, given that you are tasked to build a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">microscope). And please keep in mind that I form the following<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">understanding only from reading the abstract of the article, supported<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">only by the figure at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/">http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">nphoton.2014.323_F1.html.<br></blockquote><br>... you can actually see for yourself how the pixel spacing differs between planes (and possibly between the pixels in each plane).<br><br>Now, I am not an optical expert, but I assume you are. So you should be in a better position to answer the question how the pixel spacings (often called "pixel dimensions") differ.<br><br>In practice, it might be that the differences are negligible, both within and between planes. If that is the case, you do not need that "sophisticated algorithm" I referred to. In that case, you would only need to compensate for the obliqueness of the planes, i.e. the fact that the planes are *not* perpendicular to the axis along which the plane is moved. It will require a little bit of coding and you should make sure to have some colleague or employee who can do that for you (I would probably use the interpolation algorithms of ImgLib2 to reconstruct the volume stacks).<br><br>As stated above, you should not take my hunches at face value. It is really important that you understand the intrinsic properties of the acquisition to reconstruct the images in software. I would be interested in that analysis, too, so if you would share it with this mailing list, that would be really cool.<br><br>Ciao,<br>Johannes<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenSPIM mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenSPIM@openspim.org">OpenSPIM@openspim.org</a><br>http://openspim.org/mailman/listinfo/openspim<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>