A great technique obtained from astronomy plays a vital role to help sharpen microscopic imaging of those complex biological materials that can present problems or obstacles even to highly high-tech microscopes. When light pass through and reflect off biological samples, they can bend in many ways difficult to predict, leading to microscopic images that are usually daunting to comprehend.
Fortunately, a scientist in Maryland's Howard Hughes Medical Institute developed a unique imaging technology that is based on a type of adaptive optics that is usually used in astronomy. This can easily correct for deformations or distortions in the image and offer images that are in higher resolutions and sharper in greater amounts of biological sample object.
Such technique works effectively in kinds of tissues that do not scatter light. The method also takes its cue from astronomy that has developed adaptive optics with the use of deformable telescope mirrors in order to cancel out or eliminate distortion of any cosmic observation that is caused by the turbulence in the atmosphere of the earth.
There is a great difference that can be noticed once the quality of image before and after the correction is compared. The image that has been corrected tells a lot of essential information that the experts want and need to know.
This microscopic method us using the same principle, gather images of the target from a lot of different angles in order to determine the right correction that needs to be applied. Experts reveal that the technique is very robust and reliable. There is no need for anyone to have anything special just to apply the technology. They also reiterated that it could be a highly convenient and reliable add-on component every microscope that is available commercially. It really provides sharper and clearer images that will be more essential in the future.
