<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Tim,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think you are mixing up two issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">1. Getting rid of stripes.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, you can do a little bit in post-processing but the stripes can be quite complex and are not necessarily straight. Oftentimes you see a lot of lensing and I do not think you can easily remove it with image processing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a) Double-sided illumination helps. Depending on the sample you may want to do simultaneous or sequential double-sided illumination. There are various ways of merging the two images.</div><div class="">b) A resonant mSPIM mirror is cheap and easy to integrate. You will get rid of most stripes, but again this depends on the sample. The details for a) and b) are in our Opt. Lett. paper (Huisken & Stainier, 2007). Basically, you are pivoting the light sheet around the center of your field of view, e.g. with 1kHz. The stripes are “washed out” during the exposure time of your camera. We use this on most of our systems and it helps a lot to reduce stripes.</div><div class="">c) Multi-view fusion can also help to some extent.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">2. DSLM vs. SPIM</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, DSLM should also help reducing stripes but I have no experience with that. Basically, your light sheet is not coherent anymore and the sheet does not “interfere with itself”. However, the setup is more expensive and requires you to power and control another element: the galvo scanner to sweep the beam up and down. You need a proper scan mirror and not just the cheap mSPIM mirror. The additional benefit is that the resulting light sheet is more uniform than the cropped Gaussian light sheet. However, you need to illuminate each line with higher intensity which may result in saturation and worse dynamic range. Obviously you need to wait for the scan and need to synchronize your readout. Depending whether you have a global shutter or rolling shutter camera you need to take some precaution.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class="">Jan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Feinstein, Timothy N <<a href="mailto:tnf8@PITT.EDU" class="">tnf8@PITT.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hello all, <br class=""><br class="">I found the Selzer group's solution (Keller et al. 2013) quite interesting<br class="">and would love to know if anyone had a positive experience doing that.<br class="">The banding from my basic openSPIM is definitely a problem for<br class="">segmentation and analysis.<br class=""><br class="">As far as I can tell fixing the banding will mostly involve buying a scan<br class="">mirror. I don't have a quote yet for the Cambridge VM500 scanning mirror<br class="">that the Selzer group used but its ThorLabs equivalent (#GVS101?) costs<br class="">about $1k. That seems reasonable and not that hard for regular folks to<br class="">implement. <br class=""><br class="">In related news I just noticed that the TeraStitcher plugin for Vaa3D now<br class="">has an option to fight banding in light sheet data. I have not tested it<br class="">yet but potentially that feature could be useful. I will just post my<br class="">usual warning for folks trying TeraStitcher for the first time: it<br class="">stitches really well but it could be a hair more user-friendly.<br class=""><br class="">Best, <br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim<br class=""><br class="">Timothy Feinstein, Ph.D.<br class="">Research Scientist<br class="">University of Pittsburgh Department of Developmental Biology<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">OpenSPIM mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OpenSPIM@openspim.org" class="">OpenSPIM@openspim.org</a><br class="">http://openspim.org/mailman/listinfo/openspim<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>