Computational microscope achieves single-shot 3D high-resolution imaging with a wide field of view

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-microscope-3d-high-resolution-imaging-wide.html

"low-cost, computational miniature mesoscope... miniature LED collimators freeform optics... clear resin. tabletop 3D printer, collimators, 4-LED array illuminator, light efficiency 80%... highly confined, uniform illumination 75 mW excitation power across 8-mm diameter circular region... boosted image contrast with hybrid emission filter combining interference and absorption filters... enhanced axial resolution to 25 μm, reducing reconstruction time to <4 sec... large-scale 3D fluorescence imaging and neural recording"

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