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Intraoperative histology: Lightning 3D histopathology

A light-sheet microscope offers fast three-dimensional imaging of intact clinical tissue samples over large fields of view.

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Figure 1: Examples of light-sheet microscopes.

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Power, R., Huisken, J. Intraoperative histology: Lightning 3D histopathology. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0101

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