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Optical Scatter Microscopy Based on Two-Dimensional Gabor Filters
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Biology
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Optical Scatter Microscopy Based on Two-Dimensional Gabor Filters
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14:58 min

June 02, 2010

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Chapters

  • 00:00Title
  • 00:50Introduction
  • 01:26Protocol
  • 02:18Preparing the Optical Setup
  • 05:26Loading the Filterbank and Using the Setup to Acquire Filtered-Background Images
  • 06:57Plating the Cells
  • 09:44Performing Optical Scatter Microscopy
  • 11:53Representative Images
  • 14:28Conclusion

Summary

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We demonstrate a dark-field microscopy method based on Gabor-like filtering to measure subcellular dynamics within single living cells. The technique is sensitive to alterations in the structure of organelles, such as mitochondrial fragmentation.

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