Revolutionary Gigapixel 3D Microscope Reveals Life in Unprecedented Detail.

Researchers at Duke University have developed a high-speed, 3D, gigapixel microscope called a Multi Camera Array Microscope (MCAM) that stitches together videos from dozens of smaller cameras to provide 3D views of experiments. The MCAM can record 3D movies of the behavior of dozens of freely swimming zebrafish or the grooming activity of fruit flies at near cellular-level detail across a very wide field of view. The highly parallelized design of the MCAM creates its own data processing challenges, but the researchers have developed new algorithms that can efficiently handle these extremely large video datasets.