Academic Publications
Peer-Reviewed Research and Conference Papers
A collection of journal articles, conference papers, and other scholarly outputs produced through the OpenFlexure project and its international research collaborations.
If you’ve used our work, please consider citing the most relevant papers below, or our 2020 Robotic microscopy for everyone paper as:
Collins, J.T. et al. (2020) “Robotic Microscopy for everyone: The OpenFlexure Microscope”, Biomedical Optics Express, 11(5), p. 2447. doi:10.1364/boe.385729.
Publications and conferences
The work of the OpenFlexure project has been published in scientific journals and presented at conferences.
- Developing the OpenFlexure Microscope towards medical use: technical and social challenges of developing globally accessible hardware for healthcare
- Utility of a low-cost 3-D printed microscope for evaluating esophageal biopsies
- Controlling and scripting laboratory hardware with open-source, intuitive interfaces: OpenFlexure Voice Control and OpenFlexure Blockly
- Multi-modal microscopy imaging with the OpenFlexure Delta Stage
- Simplifying the OpenFlexure Microscope software with the web of things
- Fast, high precision autofocus on a motorised microscope: automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope
- HardOps: Utilising the software development toolchain for hardware design
- An Open‐Source Modular Framework for Automated Pipetting and Imaging Applications
- Transitioning from Academic Innovation to Viable Humanitarian Technology: The Next Steps for the OpenFlexure Project
- Low-cost, multimodal bioimaging with the OpenFlexure Delta Stage Microscope
- The OpenFlexure Project. The technical challenges of Co-Developing a microscope in the UK and Tanzania
- Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope
- The OpenFlexure Block Stage: sub-100 nm fibre alignment with a monolithic plastic flexure stage
- Flat-Field and Colour Correction for the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
- A one-piece 3D printed flexure translation stage for open-source microscopy
Citing publications
The OpenFlexure project is now used and cited by a growing number of academic publications. If you have used the designs in your work, please let us know and we’ll add you to the list below.
- Jay Christopher, Rebecca Craig, Rebecca E. McHugh, Andrew J. Roe, Ralf Bauer, Brian Patton, Gail McConnell, Liam M. Rooney, A 3D-printed optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging, Journal of Microscopy, 298, 274–282
- P. Thongtade and W. Pora, Development of an Autoscan Motorized Microscope Utilizing the OpenFlexure Architecture ECTI-CON, Thailand, (2024)
- Sven Schulze, Kumar Arumugam, Stephan Schlamminger, Ryan Fitzgerald, R Michael Verkouteren, René Theska and Gordon Shaw, Development of a high precision electrostatic force balance for measuring quantity of dispensed fluid as a new calibration standard for the becquerel, Meas. Sci. Technol. 35 085020 (2024)
- Koki Uebo, Yuto Shiokawa, Ryunosuke Takahashi, Suguru Nakata and Hiroki Wadati Development of a magneto-optical Kerr microscope using a 3D printer [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 not approved]. F1000Research 2024, 12:860
- Mark Kristan Espejo Cabello and Jeremie E. De Guzman Utilization of accessible resources in the fabrication of an affordable, portable, high-resolution, 3D printed, digital microscope for Philippine diagnostic applications, PLoS Global Public Health 3(11): e0002070 (2023)
- A. Reguilon, W. Bethard and E. Brekke A low-cost confocal microscope for the undergraduate lab, American Journal Physics 91(5): 404 (2023)
- Tai The Diep, Sarah Helen Needs, Samuel Bizley, and Alexander D. Edwards Rapid Bacterial Motility Monitoring Using Inexpensive 3D-Printed OpenFlexure Microscopy Allows Microfluidic Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Micromachines 13, no. 11: 1974 (2022)
- T. Matsui and D. Fujiwara Optical sectioning robotic microscopy for everyone: the structured illumination microscope with the OpenFlexure stages, Opt. Express 30(13), pp. 23208-23216 (2022).
- Bowen Chen, Max Nadeau, Ming Y. Lu, Jana Lipkova, and Faisal Mahmood Real Time, Point-of-Care Pathology Diagnosis via Embedded Deep Learning, a poster awarded the “best research” prize at Pathology Visions 2020
- Stephen D. Grant, Kyle Richford, Heidi L. Burdett, David McKee and Brian R. Patton Low-cost, open-access quantitative phase imaging of algal cells using the transport of intensity equation Royal Society Open Science 7, 1 (2020)
- Grant SD, Cairns GS, Wistuba J and Patton BR. Adapting the 3D-printed Openflexure microscope enables computational super-resolution imaging [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research 2019, 8:2003
Resources
If you’re planning on publishing based on our work, we’ve found it can be challenging to make the figures look as good as the microscope itself! We’ve built a set of resources to help show the optical path and components of the OpenFlexure Microscope.
