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The REU student will develop hardware and software for a biological microscope that uses adaptive optics to overcome aberrations in biological tissue, allowing high resolution images at planes deep beneath the tissue surface. The project will exploit our lab\u2019s world-leading expertise in wavefront control systems and microscopy to increase resolution, field of view, and speed of adaptive optics techniques for bio-microscopes.<\/span><\/p>\nLEARNING GOALS<\/strong> Learn more about Professor Bifano’s<\/a> work at his lab website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adaptive Biological Microscope PROJECT DESCRIPTION The REU student will develop hardware and software for a biological microscope that uses adaptive optics to overcome aberrations in biological tissue, allowing high resolution images at planes deep beneath the tissue surface. The project will exploit our lab\u2019s world-leading expertise in wavefront control systems and microscopy to increase resolution, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11551,"featured_media":0,"parent":780,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions\/1714"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Understand the basics of photolithographic patterning to produce a 3D phase mask using commercial mask writing tools.
\n<\/span>\u2022 <\/span>Understand the key concepts of feedback control and adaptive optics.
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Become familiar with deformable mirror technology.
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Develop an appreciation for the state-of-the-art in biological microscopy for deep-tissue imaging.<\/p>\n