Single fiber confocal microscope using a two-axis microscanner for cellular imaging

Author

Carlson, Kristen ; Shin, Hyun Joon ; Ra, Hyejun ; Lee, Daesung ; Solgaard, Olav ; Richards-Kortum, Rebecca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present a single fiber reflectance confocal microscope with a 2D MEMS gimbaled scanner. Achieved lateral and axial resolutions are 1.0times1.4 mum and 19 mum, respectively. The field of view is 140times100 mum at 8 frames/second.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical optical imaging; cellular biophysics; fibre optic sensors; micro-optomechanical devices; optical microscopes; optical scanners; reflectivity; cellular imaging; confocal microscope; reflectance microscope; single fiber microscope; two-axis microscanner; two-dimensional MEMS gimbaled scanner; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical optical imaging; Electrostatics; Lighting; Micromechanical devices; Micromirrors; Mirrors; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical recording; (110.2350) Fiber optics imaging; (170.1790, 180.1790) Confocal microscopy; (350.3950) Micro-optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627862

Filename

4627862