{"id":48,"date":"2015-11-05T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","slug":"light-sheet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/light-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Sheet Microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>What is light sheet microscopy\u00a0and how can it help me in my research?<\/i><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Light sheet microscopy \u2013 also referred to as Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) \u2013 is a fluorescent light\u00a0microscopical imaging technique whereby the\u00a0specimen is illuminated only in a single plane at a time and detected from the perpendicular direction. Images are built up on a \u00a0layer by layer basis \u00a0allowing<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from the obtained images, similar to confocal microscopy. Unlike confocal, the technique does not require a spatial pinhole to eliminate out of focus light.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Find out more:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-microsystems.com\/science-lab\/topics\/light-sheet-microscopy\/\">Leica Science Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu\/referencelibrary\/lightsheet.html\">Zeiss Online Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><em>Our lightsheet\u00a0system:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/zeiss-lightsheet-z.1\">Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 system<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is light sheet microscopy\u00a0and how can it help me in my research? Light sheet microscopy \u2013 also referred to as Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) \u2013 is a fluorescent light\u00a0microscopical imaging technique whereby the\u00a0specimen is illuminated only in a single plane at a time and detected from the perpendicular direction. Images are built up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}