• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 9, 2247 (2022)
You Zhou1、†, Bo Xiong2、3、†, Weizhi Song1, Xu Zhang4, Guoan Zheng5, Qionghai Dai2、3、6、*, and Xun Cao1、7、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing Universityhttps://ror.org/01rxvg760, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 4Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation, Beijing 100094, China
  • 5Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
  • 6e-mail: qhdai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: caoxun@nju.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.464051 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    You Zhou, Bo Xiong, Weizhi Song, Xu Zhang, Guoan Zheng, Qionghai Dai, Xun Cao. Light-field micro-endoscopy using a fiber bundle: a snapshot 3D epi-fluorescence endoscope[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): 2247 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Micro-endoscopes are widely used for detecting and visualizing hard-to-reach areas of the human body and for in vivo observation of animals. A micro-endoscope that can realize 3D imaging at the camera framerate could benefit various clinical and biological applications. In this work, we report the development of a compact light-field micro-endoscope (LFME) that can obtain snapshot 3D fluorescence imaging, by jointly using a single-mode fiber bundle and a small-size light-field configuration. To demonstrate the real imaging performance of our method, we put a resolution chart in different z positions and capture the z-stack images successively for reconstruction, achieving 333-μm-diameter field of view, 24 μm optimal depth of field, and up to 3.91 μm spatial resolution near the focal plane. We also test our method on a human skin tissue section and HeLa cells. Our LFME prototype provides epi-fluorescence imaging ability with a relatively small (2-mm-diameter) imaging probe, making it suitable for in vivo detection of brain activity and gastrointestinal diseases of animals.
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    You Zhou, Bo Xiong, Weizhi Song, Xu Zhang, Guoan Zheng, Qionghai Dai, Xun Cao. Light-field micro-endoscopy using a fiber bundle: a snapshot 3D epi-fluorescence endoscope[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): 2247
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