[OpenSPIM] Follow-up: [Open-SPIM] Is anyone using digital scanning to reduce banding?

Frédéric BRAU brau at ipmc.cnrs.fr
Tue Jul 5 16:49:30 CDT 2016


Dear Jan and Tim,

Sorry to come into your discussions but I noticed your comment Jan 
concerning this point : 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.

In our lab we built a home-made ultramicroscope (and reproduce an 
open-spim : 
http://unice.fr/plateformes/mica/ressources/developpements-1/developpements) 
and I was wondering about the best method to fuse images taken from the 
left+those taken from the right from our ultramicroscope (without any 
rotation). At the moment we only do averaging which maybe not the best 
solution, I suppose. Do you know a paper mentionning the different ways 
to do image fusion, or any advice about that (I also knew about a method 
consisting to cut the image in 3 part, but I don't really remember all 
the steps)?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Frédéric


Le 05/07/2016 à 20:35, Jan Huisken a écrit :
> Hi Tim,
>
> great! I like your setup.
>
> One remark to the last figure caption in your document: You need to 
> adjust the amplitude to get the maximum efficiency of the mSPIM. You 
> start with a small amplitude and increase it until the light sheet 
> intensity (and fluorescence) drops. Now you have found the amplitude 
> where you pivot the sheet as much as the NA of your illumination lens 
> allows and you are getting the best performance. Going any further, 
> the beam will be cut off and you loose laser power.
>
> Best
> Jan
>
>> On Jul 5, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Feinstein, Timothy N <tnf8 at PITT.EDU 
>> <mailto:tnf8 at PITT.EDU>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.  After much testing I have concluded that 
>> anti-striping along the lines of Huisken & Stainier (2007) is 
>> extremely important for imaging large structures like a zebrafish 
>> embryo.  This adds significant complexity and cost (~$2,000) to the 
>> basic openSPIM design but in my opinion it makes the instrument 
>> dramatically more useful for segmentation and quantiative imaging. 
>>  Importantly the fact that I could make it suggests that it is within 
>> the engineering abilities of most people who can build an openSPIM. 
>>  We have not started using it yet as our lasers are also out for an 
>> upgrade; I will update the list when I have had a chance to test it.
>>
>> I had to fill in some details from the 2007 paper on my own, so it is 
>> likely that more elegant/less kludgy designs exist.  Still, this 
>> guide I wrote for our group may be useful for those thinking of 
>> adding anti-striping in the future.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/6r1z13pggat7v76/Anti-striping%20mirror.docx?dl=0
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Timothy Feinstein, Ph.D.
>> Research Scientist
>> University of Pittsburgh Department of Developmental Biology
>>
>>
>> From:<openspim-bounces at openspim.org 
>> <mailto:openspim-bounces at openspim.org>> on behalf of Timothy 
>> Feinstein <tnf8 at pitt.edu <mailto:tnf8 at pitt.edu>>
>> Date:Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 9:27 AM
>> To:Jan Huisken <huisken at mpi-cbg.de <mailto:huisken at mpi-cbg.de>>
>> Cc:"openspim at openspim.org <mailto:openspim at openspim.org>" 
>> <openspim at openspim.org <mailto:openspim at openspim.org>>
>> Subject:Re: [OpenSPIM] Is anyone using digital scanning to reduce 
>> banding?
>>
>> Correction, I meant 0.05% tricaine.
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> T
>> *From:*Jan Huisken [mailto:huisken at mpi-cbg.de]
>> *Sent:*Friday, April 29, 2016 3:01 AM
>> *To:*Feinstein, Timothy N
>> *Cc:*openspim at openspim.org <mailto:openspim at openspim.org>
>> *Subject:*Re: [OpenSPIM] Is anyone using digital scanning to reduce 
>> banding?
>> Dear Tim,
>> I think you are mixing up two issue.
>> *1. Getting rid of stripes.*
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> c) Multi-view fusion can also help to some extent.
>> *2. DSLM vs. SPIM*
>> 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.
>> Best
>> Jan
>>>> *Jan Huisken*
>> /Head of Max Planck Research Group/
>> Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
>>
>>     On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Feinstein, Timothy N <tnf8 at PITT.EDU
>>     <mailto:tnf8 at PITT.EDU>> wrote:
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     I found the Selzer group's solution (Keller et al. 2013) quite
>>     interesting
>>     and would love to know if anyone had a positive experience doing
>>     that.
>>     The banding from my basic openSPIM is definitely a problem for
>>     segmentation and analysis.
>>
>>     As far as I can tell fixing the banding will mostly involve
>>     buying a scan
>>     mirror.  I don't have a quote yet for the Cambridge VM500
>>     scanning mirror
>>     that the Selzer group used but its ThorLabs equivalent (#GVS101?)
>>     costs
>>     about $1k.  That seems reasonable and not that hard for regular
>>     folks to
>>     implement.
>>
>>     In related news I just noticed that the TeraStitcher plugin for
>>     Vaa3D now
>>     has an option to fight banding in light sheet data.  I have not
>>     tested it
>>     yet but potentially that feature could be useful.  I will just
>>     post my
>>     usual warning for folks trying TeraStitcher for the first time: it
>>     stitches really well but it could be a hair more user-friendly.
>>
>>     Best,
>>
>>
>>     Tim
>>
>>     Timothy Feinstein, Ph.D.
>>     Research Scientist
>>     University of Pittsburgh Department of Developmental Biology
>>
>>
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