Digital Micrography
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Digital Micrography
Digital Micrography
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Talk outline:
• Types of hardware we have available
• Using your digital camera
• Microscope techniques to improve your images
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Hardware for digital micrography• SLR-type camera with macro lens
- up to around 5x mag
- good depth of field
- benefits from a copy stand
• Consumer compact camera with adapter lens- inexpensive, versatile
- can be difficult to focus
- can be some image vignetting
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Hardware for digital micrography (contd)• Specialised microscopy cameras:
1. “Ordinary”
- tethered or untethered
- uncooled → not for fluorescence
- e.g Olympus DP12
2. “Scientific”
- tethered, low noise, high sensitivity, high resolution…
- expensive ($25K+)
- e.g. Zeiss Axiocam
Leica DC500
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The Imaging CCD- An array of pixels –photon wells
Requirements:• Need high signal to noise ratio
→use cooling (-20º C) –allows long exposure (up to 10 min)
Sensitivity
• Need high frame rates
→use advanced circuitry –allows smooth focusing and framing in previews• Need colour images
→use RGB filters
• Need high resolution
→use large CCD
Accuracy
Rapidity
-the last two of these create problems
Detail
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The Colour Problem
Pixels are masked with tiny filtersallowing only red, green or blue light through
On any pixel, only light of wavelengths transmitted by the filter is recorded
The lost component must be made good by data interpolation
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The Resolution Problem:• Sampling theory: for the full resolution of a lens to be utilised, the smallest resolvable distance for that lens must beprojected onto at least two pixels
• For a typical 10x objective, this distance projects to about 7µm
• →Ideally we need pixels around 3µm square
• For a 2/3” CCD this equates to 12 Mpixel
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A solution: Microscanning of the CCD array
CCD sensor
• 4 steps of 1 pixel each to cover all colours
• 4 or 9 sub-pixel steps to increase resolution
• a combination of these up to 36-shots
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Pixel shifting –”Microscanning”-Zeiss Axiocam, Leica DC500
• Pros:- True colour
- High resolution
- Flexibility
• Cons:- Not suitable for moving specimen →use 1-shot
- Increases exposure time → risks from vibration etc.
- True colour required for best fluorescence
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Using the digital cameraUsing the digital camera
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Preparation•Appropriate accessories
- fast PC, CD burner, selection of lenses…
•Parfocality:- of eyepieces and camera
•Bulb alignment: - halogen and UV lamps
•Flat field correction:- white and black-corrected
(this is done in the camera software; repeat it if your images all have a graded background of colour or shading)
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Basic method for digital micrography(not necessarily in this order!)
•Preview
•Focus
•If necessary…- adjust exposure
- adjust white balance
- make colour correction
- select frame (ROI)
•Acquire
•Check the result in Photoshop at 100%
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Some jargon…• Binning
→ faster exposure
→ smaller files
→ less resolution
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Some jargon…• Binning
• Gain Increase this to boost the value assigned to each photon reaching the CCD
→ brighter image
→ faster exposure
→ more noise
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Some jargon…• Binning
• Gain
• Bit depth 14 bit camera → 16,000 levels
24 bit: 8 R + 8 G + 8 B
48 bit: 16 R + 16 G + 16 B
24 bit is fine for most things. Use 48 bit for quantitation and for processing difficult images –it takes up more space, and doesn’t suit all image processing software.
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Some jargon…• Binning
• Gain
• Bit depth
• Histogram
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Some jargon…• Binning
• Gain
• Bit depth
• Histogram
• Gamma
γ = 0.6
γ = 1
γ = 2
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Sharpening the image• Sharpening before Acquiring, or…
• Photoshop Unsharp Mask
-gives more precise control
-in the Filters→Sharpen menu
-try 50-100%, about 2 pixels radius, threshold 0-2
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Glitches with the Leica DC500…•Failure to acquire (alter histogram setting)
•Flickering preview (alter brightness setting or binning)
•White balance out of range (alter exposure setting)
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Some general points:• Set file size to suit the end need
- basic setting is good for 11 x 8.5 cm print (1300x1030 pixels @ 300 ppi)
• Can montage images very well using software
• Use the microscope to magnify the image, rather than relying on enlargement of high resolution images
-but bear in mind depth of field falls with higher magnifications
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3 best tips:• Ensure your microscope is set up properly
• Take the time to make good slides
-use no. 11/2 cover slips if possible
• Use the microscope correctly
Rubbish in → rubbish out
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Using the compound microscopeUsing the compound microscope
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Microscopy techniques
Autofluorescence, labelled probes
Fluorescence
Fine filaments, microorganisms
Dark field
Variety of stained and unstained specimens
Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) (=Nomarski)
Birefringent moleculese.g amylin, cellulose
Polarised light
Unstained preps, e.g cultured cell monolayers
Phase contrast
Stained/ pigmented material
Bright field
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Bright field
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Setting up your microscopeSet the eyepieces
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Spectacles icon appears on most modern eyepieces –it means the lens is designed to be viewed from a few mm back –the distance of the eyepiece caps, or of a pair of glasses
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If you don’t wear glasses, viewing is more comfortable if the eyepiece caps are in place
If you use glasses, unclip the caps and keep your glasses on –it makes viewing the PC monitor easier, while improving your field of view down the eyepieces
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The band indicates the right position for parfocality with the camera, if you have normal vision
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Setting up your microscopeSet the eyepieces
Set condenser top lens to suit magnification
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Condenser top lens:
In ≥ 10x-if the top lens is left out your image will look terrible at higher magnifications
Out < 10x-otherwise you can’t illuminate the full field of view
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Setting up your microscopeSet the eyepieces
Set condenser top lens to suit magnification
Use ND filters to adjust brightness
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Most microscopes have a marker or pushbutton setting for optimal bulb brightness (in this case a dot on the voltage wheel). Changing the voltage from this setting will alter the colour of your lighting.
By using neutral density filters, brightness can be reduced without colour change. ND filters are usually engaged using pushbuttons labelled with N or ND + a number.
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Setting up your microscopeSet the eyepieces
Set condenser top lens to suit magnification
Use ND filters to adjust brightness
Ensure objective lenses are clean
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Dirt on the objective lens can degrade your image quality greatly
The condition of a lens can be inspected in situ using a Bertrand lens or phase telescope
Lens oil is a weak solvent. It should always be cleaned off objectives at the end of a session using a good quality lens tissue
For more thorough cleaning use ethanol or diethyl ether
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Setting up your microscopeSet the eyepieces
Set condenser top lens to suit magnification
Use ND filters to adjust brightness
Ensure objective lenses are clean
Set Köhler illumination
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Köhler illuminationThis should be done every time you set up your microscope. All modern microscopes are designed to work in this condition.
1. Focus specimen
2. Close field diaphragm
3. Focus condenser
4. Open field diaphragm
5. Adjust aperture
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Field diaphragm control
Condenser focusing knob
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Numerical aperture: generally, bigger is better
The smallest distance a lens can resolve, d, reduces as NA increases: d = 0.61λ/NA
Definition: NA = n sinθ, where θ is the angle of light that can enter the lens, and n is refractive index. For air n=1, for oil n=1.515, so oil lenses are better
There is a price: depth of field is inversely proportional to NA
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Consequently…Lower magnification = more depth of field
-since lower magnification lenses tend to have lower NA
Closed condenser aperture = more depth of field-since this reduces θ and hence NA
= poorer resolution-also due to lower NA
= more contrast-as less light floods the specimen
Typically, set condenser aperture to just less than objective NA -but go by what looks best!
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Phase contrast
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Phase contrast• Phase rings must be aligned
-check with Bertrand lens or phase telescope
• Open fully the aperture diaphragm-as phase rings cut out much incoming light
Misaligned phase rings Aligned
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Bertrand lens
Phase telescope
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PH position of condenser aperture is fully open for phase contrast viewing.
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Polarised light
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Polarised light• Need properly crossed polars, giving a dark field
• Rotate stage to observe birefringence
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Analyser
Polariser
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DIC (Nomarski)
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DIC –Differential Interference Contrast• Need crossed polars
• Requires correct prism/ objective pairs
• Adjust prism angle for best look
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Upper and lower DIC prisms
Prism adjuster
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DIC –Differential Interference Contrast• alternative is Hoffman modulation contrast
-found on some inverted microscopes
-good for looking at plastic culture dishes, as birefringence makes these unsuitable for DIC
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Dark field
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Dark field• Can use HP phase rings for LP objectives
• Specialised dark field rings in the condenser are used up to c.40x
• Specialised condenser and low NA objective (with iris diaphragm) is required for 100x
• Avoid dust! –it interferes greatly with dark field images
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Fluorescence
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Specimen fluoresces by absorbing light of certain wavelengths and emtting it at longer wavelengths:
Absorption Emission
Use filters to select particular wavelengths
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eyepiece
3 second barrier filter: cuts out unwanted fluorescent signals, passing the specific red rhodamine emission above 590 nm
object
objective lens
LIGHT
SOURCE
2 beam splitting mirror: reflects light below 580 nm but transmits light above 580 nm
1 first barrier filter: lets through only green light with a wavelength between 515 and 560 nm
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Fluorescence microscopyUse an antifade
Use long pass or band pass filters as
appropriate
UV lamp -first on, last off –ignition causes electromagnetic pulse
-20 minute rule -allow warm-up and cool-down time
-fill in the log book
Optimise fluorescence with the field and aperture diaphragms
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Field diaphragm allows sensitive specimens to be protected by restricting illuminated area
Aperture diaphragm controls overall brightness of fluorescence
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Fluorescence microscopy• Need fluor lenses for UV illumination (e.g. DAPI)
-standard glass does not transmit UV wavelengths
• Brightness ∝ NA4/M2
→63x lens a good choice- giving both sufficient brightness and enough resolution to see subcellular detail; 100x lenses aren’t as bright.
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