A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques employed in astronomy to unblur images of far-away galaxies for use in the life sciences, providing biologists with a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper microscopy images. The findings are published in the journal Optica.
A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques employed in astronomy to unblur images of far-away galaxies for use in the life sciences, providing biologists with a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper microscopy images. The findings are published in the journal Optica.
Astronomers figured out long ago how to make the images their telescopes capture of far-away galaxies clearer and sharper. By using techniques that measure how light is distorted by the atmosphere, they can apply corrections to cancel out aberrations.
Microscopists have been adapting these methods to generate clearer images of thick biological samples, which also bend light and create distortions.
