This protocol explains how to prepare and mount bacterial samples for live three-dimensional imaging and how to reconstruct the three-dimensional shape of E. coli from those images.
Bratton, B. P., Barton, B., Morgenstein, R. M. Three-dimensional Imaging of Bacterial Cells for Accurate Cellular Representations and Precise Protein Localization. J. Vis. Exp. (152), e60350, doi:10.3791/60350 (2019).