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Let there be light—at the right place

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A light-sheet microscope that automatically corrects optical aberrations enables quantitative imaging of deep tissue.

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Figure 1: Optical aberrations in microscopy.

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  1. Lars Hufnagel and Rainer Pepperkok are in the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany,

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  2. Rainer Pepperkok is in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,

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