Optics Innovations
MUSE: Slide-Free Microscopy
Alexandre Y. Fong and Richard M. Levenson introduce a new optics-enabled microscopy method that creates diagnostic-quality images without lengthy and expensive specimen and slide preparation.
Farzad Fereidouni, assistant project scientist at U.C. Davis Medical Center, focuses the MUSE benchtop prototype to image a pig kidney artery. [U.C. Davis]
MUSE Microscopy Inc., a recent start-up from the University of California Davis (U.C. Davis) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, has developed a new, slide-free approach to microscopy. MUSE, which stands for microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation, is a relatively simple, quick and inexpensive histological imaging method that can provide enhanced, diagnostic-quality images from whole tissue specimens.
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