Fig. 2: Schematics of different light sheet geometries.

a SPIM: selective plane illumination microscopy8; b mSPIM: multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy49; c MuVi-SPIM: multiview selective plane illumination microscopy50; d OTLS: open-top light sheet53; e RLSM: reflected light sheet microscopy56; f LSBM: light-sheet Bayesian microscopy58; g TILT3D: tilted light sheet microscopy with 3D PSFs59; h DSLM: digital scanned laser light sheet fluorescence microscopy62; i LLS: lattice light sheet73; j HILO: highly inclined and laminated optical sheet83; k SOLEIL: single-objective lens inclined light sheet localization microscopy87; l soSPIM: single-objective selective plane illumination microscopy102; m SO-LSM: single-objective light-sheet microscopy104; n soTILT3D: single-objective TILT3D107.