Re: 0.3 NA 5x objective?

Posted by Csúcs Gábor-3 on
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Dear George,

I think your comment is partially misleading: they indeed have it on a regular microscope but the microscope part they use is only for sample holding/mounting and the "objective arm" is custom built. It is quite clear that the mesolens cannot be used as an easy replacement for a normal objective.

Greetings Gabor

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Hi Craig,

You should ask Brad and/or his collaborator Gail McConnell (corresponding author of their 2016 paper,
https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e18659 ).

They have it on a regular microscope in slide 29 of

http://www.innomol.eu/content/download/598/5822/file/Gail%20McConnell%20Optical%20mesoscopy%20with%20a%20new%20giant%20lens.pdf

(pdf may take several seconds to download).

enjoy,

George

p.s. hint to Nikon (whose scope is in slide 29), and other microscope
manufacturers: Mesolens or your own equivalents could be a good way to repurpose microscope stands. How about a 6mesolens(es) light sheet system with fusion deconvolution (and of course joint spectral unmixing) for use with Ed Boyden's 20x^2 iExM doi:10.1038/nmeth.4261