Dark-based Optical Sectioning assists Background Removal in Fluorescence Microscopy

Abstract A fundamental challenge in fluorescence microscopy is the defocused background caused by scattering light, optical aberration, or limited axial resolution. Severe defocus backgrounds will submerge the in-focus information and cause artifacts in the following processing. Here, we leverage a priori knowledge about dark channels of biological structures and dual frequency separation to develop a single-frame defocus removal algorithm. It stably improves the signal-to-background ratio and structural similarity index measure of images by approximately 10-fold, and recovers in-focus signal with 85% accuracy, even when the defocus background is 50 times larger than in-focus information. Our Dark-based optical sectioning approach (Dark sectioning) is fully compatible with various microscopy techniques, such as wide-filed microscopy, polarized microscopy, laser-scanning / spinning-disk confocal microscopy, stimulated emission depletion microscopy, lightsheet microscopy, and light-field microscopy. It also complements reconstruction or processing algorithms such as deconvolution, structure illumination microscopy, and super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 06. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cao, Ruijie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yaning [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wenyi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guoxun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yiwei [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xinzhu [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Jiakui [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yanye [VerfasserIn]
Li, Changhui [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jiamin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meiqi [VerfasserIn]
Qu, Junle [VerfasserIn]
Xi, Peng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.03.02.578598

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI042693594