Miniature two-photon microscopy combines the two-photon excitation principle and is more lightweight and flexible, allowing it to be applied to freely behaving animals. The piezoelectric tube (PZT) fiber scanner is the key actuated component in miniature fiber-scanning two-photon endomicroscopy (TPEM). In this paper, we use multi-physics field finite element simulation to model and analyze a reverse-fixed PZT fiber scanner for TPEM. The simulation results show that the first two resonant frequencies of the PZT fiber scanner are 163.6 Hz and 757.9 Hz, respectively. At the first two resonant points, the PZT fiber scanner scan range are 0.078 mm and 0.68 mm, respectively. Theoretical guidance for frequency selection of the reverse-fixed PZT fiber scanner is provided by these simulation results.
In recent years, two-photon endomicroscopy has developed as a promising label-free optical biopsy technique for diagnosing gastrointestinal tumors. In this study, we optimize the imaging resolution of the lensed fiber-optic scanning two-photon endomicroscopic imaging scheme. By fabricating a lensed fiber for fiber-optic scanning two-photon endomicroscopy, a lateral resolution of 2.1 μm and a field of view of 600 μm in two-photon endomicroscopic imaging is achieved. Furthermore, the objective-lens-free imaging capability is also validated using gastric
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