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Light-sheet (SPIM) microscopy
- Power, RM & Huisken, J (2017) A guide to light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for multiscale imaging Nature Methods 14/4: 260-373
- Adams, MW et al (2017) Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM) Curr. Protoc. Cytometry 71: Unit 12.37, 1-15
- Reynaud, EG et al (2015) Guide to light-sheet microscopy for adventurous biologists Nature Methods 12/1: 30-34
- Heddleston, JM & Chew, T-L (2016) Light sheet microscopes: Novel imaging toolbox for visualizing life’s processes Int. Jour. Biochem. Cell Biol. 80: 119-123
- de Medeiros, G et al (2016) Light-sheet imaging of mammalian development Seminars Cell & Dev. Biology 55: 148-155
- Chen, B-C et al (2014) Lattice light-sheet microscopy: imaging molecules to embryos at high spatiotemporal resolution Science 346 (6208): 439; 1257998
- Gao, L et al (2014) 3D live fluorescence imaging of cellular dynamics using Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy Nature Protocols 9/5: 1083-1101
- Scherf, N & Huisken, J (2015) The smart and gentle microscope Nature Biotech. 33/8: 815-818
- Reynaud, EG (2008) Light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy: More dimensions, more photons, and less photodamage HFSP Journal 2/5: 266-275
- Stelzer, EHK (2015) Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for quantitative biology Nature Methods 12/1: 23-26
- The Nature Methods collection of articles
Mesoscopy
- Gigan, S (2017) Optical microscopy aims deep Nature Photonics 11/1: 14-16
- Chhetri, RK & Keller, PJ (2016) Imaging far and wide eLife 5: e21072 – commentary on McConnell et al (2017) below:
- McConnell, G et al (2016) A novel optical microscope for imaging large embryos and tissue volumes with sub-cellular resolution throughout eLife 5: e18659
Clearing Tissues
- Ariel, P (2017) A beginner’s guide to tissue clearing Int. Jour. Biochem & Cell Biol. 84: 35-39
- Vigouroux, RJ et al (2017) Neuroscience in the third dimension: shedding new light on the brain with tissue clearing Mol. Brain 10/1:33
- Richardson, DS & Lichtman, JW (2015) Clarifying tissue clearing Cell 162/2: 246-257
- Silvestri, L et al (2016) Clearing of fixed tissue: a review from a microscopist’s perspective Jour. Biomed. Optics 21/8: 081205
- Marx, V (2014) Microscopy: seeing through tissue Nature Methods 11/12: 1209-1214
- Seo, J et al (2016) Clearing and Labeling Techniques for Large-Scale Biological Tissues Mol. Cells 39/6: 439-446
- Höckendorf, B et al (2014) Making biology transparent Nature Biotechnology 32/11: 1104-1105
- Tomer, R et al (2014) Advanced CLARITY for rapid and high-resolution imaging of intact tissues Nature Protocols 9/7: 1682-1697
- Magliaro, C (2016) Clarifying CLARITY: Quantitative Optimization of the Diffusion Based Delipidation Protocol for Genetically Labeled Tissue Front. Neurosci. 10: 179
- Azaripour, A et al (2016) A survey of clearing techniques for 3D imaging of tissues withspecial reference to connective tissue Prog. Histochem. Cytochem. 51/2: 9-23.
- Pan, C et al (2016) Shrinkage-mediated imaging of entire organs and organisms using uDISCO Nature Methods 13/10: 859-867
- Treweek, JB & Gradinaru, V (2016) Extracting structural and functional features of widely distributed biological circuits with single cell resolution via tissue clearing and delivery vectors Curr Opin Biotechnol. 40:193-207
Refractive Index Mismatch
- Visser, TD et al (1992) Refractive index and axial distance measurements in 3-D microscopy Optik 90/1: 17-19
- Besseling, TH et al (2015) Methods to calibrate and scale axial distances in confocal microscopy as a function of refractive index Jour. Microscopy 257/2: 142-150
- Hell, S et al (1992) Aberrations in confocal fluorescence microscopy induced by mismatches in refractive index Jour. Microscopy 169/3: 391-405
- Ji, N (2017) Adaptive optical fluorescence microscopy Nature Methods 14/4: 374-380
- Diel, EE et al (2020) Tutorial: avoiding and correcting sample-induced spherical aberration artifacts in 3D fluorescence microscopy. Nature Protocols 15/9: 2773-2784. See also the companion Nature Protocols paper Jonkman et al (2020) Tutorial on confocal here and poster.
Digital Imaging
- Ossi, J (2008) Light Microscopy Digital Imaging Curr. Protoc. Cytom. Unit 2.3.
- Bernas, T (2005) Basics of Digital Microscopy Curr. Protoc. Cytom. Unit 12.2.
- Cromey, DW (2013) Digital Images Are Data: And Should Be Treated as Such Chapter 1, in: Cell Imaging Techniques: Methods and Protocols Douglas J. Taatjes, DJ & Roth, J (eds.) Methods Mol. Biol. 931: 1-27
- Rossner, M & K. Yamada, K (2004) What’s in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation Jour. Cell Biol. 166/1: 11-5 plus guidelines
- Entwistle, A (2005) Digital images in science: Fair or fraud? The Biochemist 27/5: 17-22
- Pawley, JB (2006) Points, Pixels and Gray Levels: Digitizing Image Data pp 59-79, Chapter 4 in: Handbook of Biology Confocal Microscopy 3rd edition. (ed.) JB Pawley. Springer, New York. ISBN = 0-387-25921-X
For further resources on digital imaging, see also the Other Links page
Colocalisation
- Barlow, AL et al (2010) Colocalization Analysis in Fluorescence Micrographs: Verification of a More Accurate Calculation of Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Microscopy and Microanalysis 16/6: 710-724.
- Adler, J & Parmryd, I (2021) Quantifying colocalization: The case for discarding theManders overlap coefficient CytometryA Mar 15. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.24336: 1-11.
- Adler, J & Parmryd I (2010) Quantifying colocalization by correlation: the Pearson correlation coefficient is superior to the Mander’s overlap coefficient. Cytometry A 77(8): 733-42.
- Sheng, H et al. (2016) Systematic and general method for quantifying localization in microscopy images. Biol Open 5(12): 1882-1893.
- Dunn KW et al. (2011) A practical guide to evaluating colocalization in biological microscopy. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 300(4): C723-42
- McDonald, JH & Dunn KW (2013) Statistical tests for measures of colocalization in biological microscopy. J Microsc. 252(3): 295-302.
- Lagache T et al. (2015) Statistical analysis of molecule colocalization in bioimaging. Cytometry A 87(6): 568-79.
- Lavancier, F et al. (2020) Testing independence between two random sets for the analysis of colocalization in bioimaging. Biometrics 76(1): 36-46.
- Aaron, JS, Taylor, AB & Chew TL (2018) Image co-localization – co-occurrence versus correlation. Jour Cell Sci. 131 (3): jcs211847. But also see the correspondence from Adler/Parmryd here.
Image Analysis
- Dr John Russ – Roadmap Guide to Image Analysis for more on Seeing the Scientific Image, go here
- Meijering, E et al (2016) Imagining the future of bioimage analysis Nature Biotechnol. 34/12: 1250-1255
- Roeder, AHK et al (2012) A computational image analysis glossary for biologists Development 139/17: 3071-3080
- Bassel, GW (2015) Accuracy in Quantitative 3D Image Analysis Plant Cell 27/4: 950-953
- Editorial (2012) The quest for quantitative microscopy Nature Methods 9/7: 627
- Fazeli, E et al (2020) Automated Cell Tracking with Fiji F1000Research 2020, 9:1279
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