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Creating Clarity: Adaptive Optics for Bioimaging

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Adaptive optics helps improve ophthalmic and microscopy applications.

Paul Bierden and Steven Menn, Boston Micromachines Corp.

Biological imaging instruments often have resolution limitations that restrict the ability of researchers and clinicians to detect critical detail. One reason is that, as light passes through tissue to reach the object of interest — a cell, the retina or a tumor — the tissue induces wavefront aberrations in the light. Adaptive optics can actively correct these aberrations in the optical path between the camera and the object being imaged. The increased resolution allows vital information to be extracted from biological specimens. Introduced in the 1950s as a way to correct...Read full article

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