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Imaging cleared tissues made easy

A flexible open-top light-sheet microscope has been developed that can perform deep three-dimensional imaging on all clearing protocols with low and high optical resolution.

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Fig. 1: Simplified schematic of the optical layout of the hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope.

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Kanatani, S., Uhlén, P. Imaging cleared tissues made easy. Nat Methods 19, 527–529 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01424-3

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