University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023
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Description:
Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is a powerful super resolution fluorescence microscopy technique that surpasses the diffraction limit. However, the performance of a STED microscope can be adversely influenced by aberrations. In thick biological specimens, aberrations are primarily induced by wavefront distortion caused by variations in the refractive index within the specimen. These aberrations have a substantial impact on the quality of the acquired images and impose limitations on the achievable resolution. This problem can be resolved by using adaptive optics (AO) in a fe...