{"id":222063,"date":"2025-09-18T03:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/innovative-microscope-captures-large-high-resolution-images-of-curved-samples-in-single-snapshot"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:33:46","slug":"innovative-microscope-captures-large-high-resolution-images-of-curved-samples-in-single-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/innovative-microscope-captures-large-high-resolution-images-of-curved-samples-in-single-snapshot","title":{"rendered":"Innovative microscope captures large, high-resolution images of curved samples in single snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-microscope-captures-large-high-resolution-images-of-curved-samples-in-single-snapshot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and medical diagnostics or be useful in quality inspection applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough traditional microscopes assume the sample is perfectly flat, real-life samples such as tissue sections, plant samples or flexible materials may be curved, tilted or uneven,\u201d said research team leader Roarke Horstmeyer from Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our approach, it\u2019s possible to adjust the focus across the sample, so that everything remains in focus even if the sample surface isn\u2019t flat, while avoiding slow scanning or expensive special lenses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and medical diagnostics or be useful in quality inspection applications. \u201cAlthough traditional microscopes assume the sample is perfectly flat, real-life samples such as tissue sections, plant samples [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}