Advanced system check

MPI-CBG LMF

Advanced System Check Protocol (draft)

Fluorescence and Brightfield Imaging

• • purpose: test general performance of the system - basic functions work fine? + Koehler illumination, light paths ok?
  • requirements: Zeiss/Leica Convallaria demo sample
  • work flow: acquire two images in basic resolution (512x512), blue ex / green em plus transmitted light image, using 10x objective

Field of Illumination

• • purpose: check for even illumination
  • requirements: mirror
  • work flow: 80/20 mirror, 488 nm laser, pinhole 1 AU. focus on reflective side of mirror. try to obtain "japanese flag".

Point Spread Function (PSF)

• • purpose:
  • requirements:
  • work flow:
• overlay UV/V and VIS (confocal systems with separate UV/V laser coupling)
  • purpose: check the coupling precision of the UV/V laser
  • requirements: 0.2/0.5µm fluorescent beads sample
  • work flow: open pinhole(s), use high resolution apochromatic lens (NA 1.2 or above), acquire two images (UV/V plus VIS channel) with good sampling (pixel size ~100nm)

PSF Macro

PSF macro result: 500 nm bead, confocal

PSF macro result 2: 500 nm bead, confocal

requirements for bead stacks

• 100 planes, 200 nm spacing
• optimal: single bead in center of image
• the macro attempts to crop a 15x15 µm area with the bead in center; if the image dimensions are already smaller, extend the area: Fiji > Image > Adjust > Canvas Size...

install LUT

• Mac: go to applications folder > fiji: ctrl+click on the Fiji(.app) icon > Show package content
• PC: go to \Program Files\Fiji.app (or to the place you installed Fiji)
• create a folder called "luts", if it's not there yet
• drag and drop the *.lut into it
• (re)start fiji

install macro

• Fiji > Plugins > Macros > Install...
• select macro txt file
• macro gets installed to that menu for the current session

load bead stack

• Fiji > File > Open
• select bead stack file
• if necessary, split channels (Fiji > Image > Color > Split Channels)
• if necessary, crop image to a single bead

run macro

PSF macro: parameters dialog, open bead stack

description by Laurent

Thanks a lot for your interest in our ImageJ Macro, which I join as an attachment.

You need to install it each time you start ImageJ. Go to >Plugins>Macros>Install...

Select it in the dialog window and click "open".

To run it, you need before to open a stack. We take stacks of 100 planes, spaced by 0.2mm, for all objectives and all microscopes. Then go to >Plugins>Macros>MIPs for PSFs for all microscopes to run the Macro.

Automatic Macro actions / User actions:

A. Selects the plane with the highest pixel intensity, adjusts display settings, opens the information dialog box.

1. Enter information in the dialog window which popped up.

2. Zoom in the image to clearly localize the center of the bead (you can also navigate between planes if needed).

3. Right clicks with the mouse on the center of the bead.

B. Crops the image to get 15mmx15mm area centered over the pixel clicked by the user.

C. Makes projections in X and Y of the stack

D. Stitches together the cropped area and the projections

E. Estimates and subtracts background

F. Takes the square root of the image (to minimize photon noise and to mimic a decrease in histogram gain)

G. Resizes the image to 550x550 pixels, adjusts display, changes LUT and saves the picture in a JPEG format with a standardized name: Date_Scope name_Magnification_NA.jpg.

Z-Resolution

Leica Z-resolution mirror

Fiji: XZ-scan, Z-resolution profile

• leica mirror
• XZY Scan
• Zoom 16.00
• 30% 488nm laser
• 30/70 splitter
• pmt 1 > detection slit around 488nm
• scan speed 200 Hz
• line average 4
• 512x256
• 8 bit
• min pinhole diameter!

• requirements: Leica mirror