Light-sheet microscope and sample observation method

Abstract

In order to simply and accurately acquire a three-dimensional image of a sample to observe the sample, a light-sheet microscope according to the present invention includes: a duct in which the sample can flow; a syringe pump for moving the sample in the duct; a cylindrical lens for causing planar illumination light along a plane intersecting the direction in which the sample is moved by the syringe pump to enter the duct; an objective lens that is disposed so as to face the radiation plane of the illumination light caused by the cylindrical lens to enter the duct and that collects fluorescence emitted from the sample moved by the syringe pump so as to pass through the radiation plane of the illumination light; and a camera for acquiring an image of the fluorescence from the sample collected by the objective lens.

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