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Biomed Opt Express. 2017 Jun 20;8(7):3329-3342. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.003329. eCollection 2017 Jul 01.

Chip-on-the-tip compact flexible endoscopic epifluorescence video-microscope for in-vivo imaging in medicine and biomedical research.

Biomedical optics express

Gregor Matz, Bernhard Messerschmidt, Werner Göbel, Severin Filser, Christian S Betz, Matthias Kirsch, Ortrud Uckermann, Marcel Kunze, Sven Flämig, André Ehrhardt, Klaus-Martin Irion, Mareike Haack, Mario M Dorostkar, Jochen Herms, Herbert Gross

Affiliations

  1. GRINTECH GmbH, Schillerstrasse 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
  2. Institute of Applied Physics, FSU Jena, Fürstengraben 1, 07737 Jena, Germany.
  3. KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG, Mittelstrasse 8, 78532 Tuttlingen, Germany.
  4. LMU Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany.
  5. Klinikum Großhadern, Marchioninistr. 13, 81377 Munich, Germany.
  6. Neurosurgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany.

PMID: 28717570 PMCID: PMC5508831 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.8.003329

Abstract

We demonstrate a 60 mg light video-endomicroscope with a cylindrical shape of the rigid tip of only 1.6 mm diameter and 6.7 mm length. A novel implementation method of the illumination unit in the endomicroscope is presented. It allows for the illumination of the biological sample with fiber-coupled LED light at 455 nm and the imaging of the red-shifted fluorescence light above 500 nm in epi-direction. A large numerical aperture of 0.7 leads to a sub-cellular resolution and yields to high-contrast images within a field of view of 160

Keywords: (170.2150) Endoscopic imaging; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (170.3890) Medical optics instrumentation; (180.2520) Fluorescence microscopy; (350.3950) Micro-optics

Conflict of interest statement

P: W.G. and B.M. are authors on a patent application for the layout of the endomicroscopic system (US2016235278A1). E: G.M., B.M., M.K. and S.F. are full-time employees of Grintech GmbH. W.G., A.E. an

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