Multiplexed PSF Engineering for Three-Dimensional Multicolor Particle Tracking

Three-dimensional spatiotemporal tracking of microscopic particles in multiple colors is a challenging optical imaging task. Existing approaches require a trade-off between photon efficiency, field of view, mechanical complexity, spectral specificity, and speed. Here, we introduce multiplexed point-...

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Published in:Nano letters 2021-07, Vol.21 (13), p.5888-5895
Main Authors: Opatovski, Nadav, Shalev Ezra, Yael, Weiss, Lucien E, Ferdman, Boris, Orange-Kedem, Reut, Shechtman, Yoav
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Language:English
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Summary:Three-dimensional spatiotemporal tracking of microscopic particles in multiple colors is a challenging optical imaging task. Existing approaches require a trade-off between photon efficiency, field of view, mechanical complexity, spectral specificity, and speed. Here, we introduce multiplexed point-spread-function engineering that achieves photon-efficient, 3D multicolor particle tracking over a large field of view. This is accomplished by first chromatically splitting the emission path of a microscope to different channels, engineering the point-spread function of each, and then recombining them onto the same region of the camera. We demonstrate our technique for simultaneously tracking five types of emitters in vitro as well as colocalization of DNA loci in live yeast cells.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02068