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).

Distance to OPFOS	Acronym
3	HR_OPFOS
OPM
4	HILO
LSFM
OCPI
OLSM
PLIF
SPIM
5	CLSM
DSLM
iSPIM
LISH
LSBM
mSPIM
MLSM
OPTiSPIM
RLSM
SPIM_SI
SPIM_FCS
TSLM
TSLIM
UM
6	2PE_SPIM
AO_SPIM
DSLM_SI
EzDSLM
diSPIM
MISERB
OpenSPIM
SPIM_FCCS
7	2p_SPIM
IML_SPIM
SiMView
WAO_SPIM
8	FLIM_SPIM
MuVi_SPIM
L_OpenSPIM
T_OpenSPIM
X_OpenSPIM
STED_SPIM
10	OpenSPIM_Farm
14	Light_Sheet_Z_1