【英语时差8,16】选择性平面照明显微镜

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SPIM stands for Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy. SPIM is a new kind of microscope technology. It provides a significantly sharper image than current microscopes, and it also allows one to study living organisms without destroying or harming them. SPIM uses very thin slices of light to illuminate¹ one section of a sample at a time, a process that inflicts² little damage to a specimen³. This process is why SPIM provides images that are five times sharper than those of current microscopes. SPIM also enables a viewer to study a living organism from many different angles and layers. The machine moves the specimen through the slice of light to take images from each layer, resulting in a clear and detailed⁴ three-dimensional image. SPIM takes mere⁵ minutes to create detailed images, and it actually costs about one- third less to manufacture than the current microscope technologies.