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Dear Louis et al,

Thank you so much for the pdf! More than that, for the historical
background. I had seen the reference in Video Microscopy, the Confocal
Handbook, the patent, and a few other places and soon realized that the
libraries of London Universities (UCL, Imperial, KCL) are sorely lacking in
older paper copies of JCB.

Ken Spring has at least one published paper where they show a fiber coiling
around the laser fan to remove speckling (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=1760509). One other reference I
found interesting was a group who used a rotating plastic petri dish as
their "low cost" alternative to the wedge+diffuser system from the Hard
paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=15556992.

Thank you all,
Best,
Pedro

On 27 February 2015 at 00:43, George McNamara <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi Louis,
>
> Thanks for the Ellis abstract link (it worked) and back story. The Hard,
> Zeh, Allen 1977 J Cell Sci paper is freely available at
> http://jcs.biologists.org/content/23/1/335.long
>
> Speaking of JCS, it has an 'Imaging' site
> http://imaging.jcs.biologists.org/
>
> I am especially looking forward to reading tonight the Stramer and Dunn
> essay, Cells on film – the past and future of cinemicroscopy
> http://jcs.biologists.org/content/128/1/9
> (freely available).
>
> Scramblers - May 1992 Ken Spring helped UIC at the AQLM course with a
> Brimrose AOTF (wavelength selector) and some length (a couple of meters?)
> optical fiber, plus something to vibrate the optical fiber - maybe by
> touching the fiber to the fan of the (Argon?) laser (though maybe was an Hg
> lamp?). This may have also been the first time MetaMorph (pre-1.0) was
> "brought out to play".
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George
>
>
> On 2/26/2015 12:52 PM, Louis Kerr wrote:
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>> Hello Pedro and others,
>>
>> The Marine Biological Laboratory Library was able to locate this
>> reference rather easily through our affiliation with JSTOR.
>>
>> The Library kindly put the citation at: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/7174
>>
>> Gordon Ellis worked closely with Shinya Inoue for many decades and taught
>> in the MBL course started by Shinya, the Analytical and Quantitative Light
>> Microscopy Course. Bob Allen started the Optical Microscopy in Biomedical
>> Sciences Course which is now headed up by Robert Hard who is mentioned in
>> the citation. Bob Knudson worked for Shinya and later had his own business,
>> Technical Video, Ltd, where he produced the scrambler for widefield
>> imaging. I am not sure anyone around here ever used the scrambler with
>> lasers, mostly they were used with mercury arc lamps. Bob Knudson passed
>> away several years ago and I do not know of anyone still producing the
>> scramblers.
>>
>> This was a good stroll trip down memory lane!
>> Louie
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Pedro Almada"<[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 1:22:18 PM
>> Subject: "Lost" paper reference
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> We're looking for references on the first work done with vibrating
>> multimode fibers to homogenize illumination. One particular paper is cited
>> very often in the Handbook and elsewhere:
>>
>> Ellis, G.W., 1979, A fiber-optic phase-randomizer for microscope
>> illumination by laser, J. Cell Biol. 83:303a
>>
>> Checking the archives on the JCB website (
>> http://jcb.rupress.org/content/83/2.toc), it seems volume 83 doesn't have
>> such a paper. Does anyone have a copy of it they could share?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Pedro Almada
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> George McNamara, Ph.D.
> Single Cells Analyst
> L.J.N. Cooper Lab
> University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
> Houston, TX 77054
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