{"id":242151,"date":"2026-08-04T01:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/bringing-it-all-into-focus-computational-microscope-captures-25-2-billion-pixels-per-second-across-a-wide-field-of-view"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:21:29","slug":"bringing-it-all-into-focus-computational-microscope-captures-25-2-billion-pixels-per-second-across-a-wide-field-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/bringing-it-all-into-focus-computational-microscope-captures-25-2-billion-pixels-per-second-across-a-wide-field-of-view","title":{"rendered":"Bringing it all into focus\u2014computational microscope captures 25.2 billion pixels per second across a wide field of view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bringing-it-all-into-focus-computational-microscope-captures-25-2-billion-pixels-per-second-across-a-wide-field-of-view2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another. Now, a UC Berkeley\u2013led team of researchers has found a way to address this challenge, opening the door to new possibilities in the field of microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-026-01974-4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Photonics<\/i><\/a>, researchers designed a computational microscope capable of capturing micron-scale resolution across multi-centimeter areas at faster-than-video rates. Using an array of 48 camera sensors and computational imaging \u201ctricks,\u201d their new microscope was able to capture videos at a rate of 25.2 billion pixels per second\u2014an unprecedented combination of highly detailed magnification, wide field of view and high-speed imaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a breakthrough in the field of computational microscopy,\u201d said Laura Waller, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and the study\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cWith our microscope, we were able to achieve 3-micron resolution across 5 square centimeters at 120 frames per second, which isn\u2019t possible with traditional ways. It\u2019s the largest space-bandwidth time product of any practical microscope we know of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another. Now, a UC Berkeley\u2013led team of researchers has found a way to address this challenge, opening the door to new possibilities in the field of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242151","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=242151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}