Optical Microscope for 3D Observation.

Single 3D cell segmentation from optical CT microscope images

Computational 3D Microscope

This project report covers the development of a computational 3D microscope, NoScope. Using tomographic and light field algorithms, we present a method to reconstruct 3D volumes of microscopic samples taken with a lensless sensor. Business and intellectual property strategies for commercializing NoScope are detailed in the first three sections. The remaining sections highlight the project’s tec...

The Scanning Optical Microscope

Instead of forming an entire image at one instant, a scanning optical microscope (SOM) scans a beam of light across specimen in a regular pattern, or raster, and forms its image point by point. A point of light is focused to a diffraction-limited spot on the sample by the objective lens. An image is built up point by point by a detector, either below the slide (if the microscope is exclusively ...

The Optical Microscope (draft)

Introduction The optical components of a microscope are its two imaging lenses (eyepiece and objective) and a condenser lens. The eyepiece and objective are responsible for magnifying the image of the specimen and projecting it onto the viewer’s retina or onto the film plane in a camera. The job of the condenser lens is to focus a cone of incident light onto the specimen. To provide the inciden...

Quantitative posture analysis of 2D, 3D, and optical microscope visualization methods for microsurgery tasks.

The purpose of this paper is to present a quantitative posture analysis of microsurgery tasks performed with different visualization methods. Microsurgery is traditionally performed using a binocular microscope; however surgeons are constrained by the optical eyepieces and are forced to assume joint angles that deviate away from neutral postures. This may be especially problematic for the neck ...