Image-formation in tissues: inside the eye, in microscopy, and in-silico.

  1. 1Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  2. 2Biocenter Martinsried, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

kreysing@mpi-cbg.de

Image formation inside biological tissues is of physiological relevance in the eye and practical importance in the context of tissue and whole organism microscopy. Here I discuss how a tissue that evolved under the strongest optical constraints, the vertebrate retina, deals with incoming light. We show by direct transmission measurements how the unique chromatin arrangement within photoreceptor nuclei impacts image quality at the level of the photorecetors. We complement these measurements by wave optical simulations of forward scattering. Finally, we show how these simulations can also be used to mimic the image formation process in tissue microscopy.

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@inproceedings{dgao118-s5, title = {Image-formation in tissues: inside the eye, in microscopy, and in-silico.}, author = {Moritz Kreysing, Kaushikaram Subramanian, Martin Weigert, Eugene Myers, Irina Solovei}, booktitle = {DGaO-Proceedings, 118. Jahrestagung}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik e.V.}, issn = {1614-8436}, note = {Talk S5} }
118. Annual Conference of the DGaO · Dresden · 2017