A combination of light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) with structured illumination doubles resolving power over LSFM alone. We show a practical implementation using a single objective for illumination and fluorescence detection and demonstrate its use for rapid volumetric imaging.
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Doubling the resolution of light-sheet fluorescence microscopy. Nat Methods 19, 1355–1356 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01636-7
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