Miniature near-infrared dual-axes confocal microscope utilizing a two-dimensional microelectromechanical systems scanner

JTC Liu, MJ Mandella, H Ra, LK Wong, O Solgaard… - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
The first, to our knowledge, miniature dual-axes confocal microscope has been developed,
with an outer diameter of 10 mm, for subsurface imaging of biological tissues with 5-7 μm …

Three-dimensional in vivo imaging by a handheld dual-axes confocal microscope

H Ra, W Piyawattanametha, MJ Mandella… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We present a handheld dual-axes confocal microscope that is based on a two-dimensional
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scanner. It performs reflectance and fluorescence …

Dual-axes confocal microscopy with post-objective scanning and low-coherence heterodyne detection

TD Wang, CH Contag, MJ Mandella, NY Chan… - Optics letters, 2003 - opg.optica.org
We present a dual-axes confocal microscope that employs postobjective scanning and low-
coherence heterodyne detection to collect vertical cross-sectional images from biological …

3-D near-infrared fluorescence imaging using an MEMS-based miniature dual-axis confocal microscope

W Piyawattanametha, H Ra… - IEEE Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a fast miniature microelectro-mechanical-system-based near-infrared
fluorescence dual-axis confocal microscope in a 10-mm-diameter package for 3-D imaging …

Miniature in vivo MEMS-based line-scanned dual-axis confocal microscope for point-of-care pathology

C Yin, AK Glaser, SY Leigh, Y Chen, L Wei… - Biomedical optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
There is a need for miniature optical-sectioning microscopes to enable in vivo interrogation
of tissues as a real-time and noninvasive alternative to gold-standard histopathology. Such …

Confocal fluorescence microscope with dual-axis architecture and biaxial postobjective scanning

TD Wang, CH Contag, MJ Mandella… - … of biomedical optics, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a novel confocal microscope that has dual-axis architecture and biaxial
postobjective scanning for the collection of fluorescence images from biological specimens …

Handheld line-scanned dual-axis confocal microscope with pistoned MEMS actuation for flat-field fluorescence imaging

L Wei, C Yin, Y Fujita, N Sanai, JTC Liu - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A handheld line-scanned dual-axis confocal (LS-DAC) microscope has been developed for
high-speed (16 frames/s) fluorescence imaging of tissues with sub-nuclear resolution. This …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-color miniature dual-axis confocal microscope for point-of-care pathology

SY Leigh, JTC Liu - Optics letters, 2012 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present a miniature micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based dual-axis
confocal microscope capable of spatially co-registered fluorescence imaging at multiple …

Optical axial scanning in confocal microscopy using an electrically tunable lens

JM Jabbour, BH Malik, C Olsovsky… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents the use and characterization of an electrically focus tunable lens to
perform axial scanning in a confocal microscope. Lateral and axial resolution are …

Handheld subcellular-resolution single-fiber confocal microscope using high-reflectivity two-axis vertical combdrive silicon microscanner

K Kumar, K Hoshino, X Zhang - Biomedical microdevices, 2008 - Springer
We introduce a handheld single-fiber laser-scanning confocal microscope, incorporating a
high-reflectivity two-axis silicon vertical combdrive microscanner, aimed at in vivo early …