4束光干涉实现超分辨与光学切片同步,突破传统显微镜成像局限。
Simultaneous super-resolution and optical sectioning with four-beam interference structured illumination microscopy (4I-SIM)
- 用4束光干涉扩展横向频率响应,补全轴向缺失锥
- 横向分辨率103纳米,轴向336纳米,接近两倍提升
- 适合活体厚组织成像,可捕捉毫秒级细胞动态
结构光照明显微技术(SIM)已成为广泛应用的超分辨荧光成像方法,具有高速、低光毒性、大视场和兼容常规探针等优势。然而,在厚或散射样品中,传统二维SIM(2D-SIM)因光学传递函数存在缺失锥问题,导致明显离焦背景和严重重建伪影,影响图像保真度。本文提出四束光干涉结构光照明显微技术(4I-SIM),通过引入额外干涉阶次,同时扩展横向频率支持并补偿轴向缺失锥。该策略实现了无伪影的超分辨成像与内在光学切片,从根本上克服了2D-SIM的局限,且无需额外采集成本。在多种厚固定及活体样品中的实验验证表明,4I-SIM相比2D-SIM实现近两倍横向分辨率提升,并显著改善切片性能,达到横向分辨率103 nm、轴向分辨率336 nm。尤其在高糖应激条件下,成功揭示线粒体重塑与凋亡过程,时间分辨率达毫秒级——这些特征在传统SIM中被掩盖。4I-SIM仅需少量硬件改造、低光毒性,并配备开源重建工具,为复杂生物环境下的超分辨与光学切片同步成像提供了实用且可重复的平台。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as a widely adopted super-resolution fluorescence imaging modality, offering high speed, low phototoxicity, large field-of-view, and compatibility with conventional probes. However, when applied to thick or scattering specimens, conventional two-dimensional SIM (2D-SIM) suffers from the missing cone problem in its optical transfer function, resulting in prominent out-of-focus background and severe reconstruction artifacts that compromise image fidelity. Here, we present four-beam interference structured illumination microscopy (4I-SIM), which introduces additional interference orders to expand lateral frequency support and compensate the axial missing cone simultaneously. This strategy achieves artifact-free super-resolution with intrinsic optical sectioning, effectively overcoming the fundamental limitation of 2D-SIM without additional acquisition overhead. Experimental validation across diverse thick fixed and live specimens demonstrates that 4I-SIM delivers nearly twofold lateral resolution enhancement and substantially improved sectioning compared with its 2D counterpart, achieving lateral and axial resolutions of 103 nm and 336 nm, respectively. In particular, 4I-SIM reveals mitochondrial remodeling and apoptosis under high-glucose stress with millisecond temporal resolution -- features that remain obscured with conventional SIM. With minimal hardware modification, low phototoxicity, and open-source reconstruction tools, 4I-SIM establishes a practical and reproducible platform for simultaneous super-resolution and optical sectioning imaging in complex biological environments.
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