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We propose a method to reconstruct the 3-D molecular structure from micrographs collected at just one sample tilt angle in the random conical tilt scheme in cryo-electron microscopy. Our method uses autocorrelation analysis on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-12 Ti-Yen Lan , Nicolas Boumal , Amit Singer

Determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes at atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made using "single particle" cryo-electron…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Andras Pataki , Marina Spivak

Modern microscopy techniques are aimed at imaging an individual molecule at atomic resolution. Here we show that low-energy electrons with kinetic energies of 50-250 eV offer a possibility of overcome the problem of radiation damage, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-09 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has achieved near-atomic level resolution of biomolecules by reconstructing 2D micrographs. However, the resolution and accuracy of the reconstructed particles are significantly reduced due to the…

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Three-dimensional atomic resolution imaging using transmission electron microscopes is a unique capability that requires challenging experiments. Linear electron tomography methods are limited by the missing wedge effect, requiring a high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Shengboy You , Andrey Romanov , Philipp Pelz

Ptychography is a computational imaging technique that has risen in popularity in the x-ray and electron microscopy communities in the past half decade. One of the reasons for this success is the development of new high performance electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Anton Gladyshev , Thomas C. Pekin , Marcel Schloz , Benedikt Haas , Johannes Müller , Christoph T. Koch

Microscopy is one of the most essential imaging techniques in life sciences. High-quality images are required in order to solve (potentially life-saving) biomedical research problems. Many microscopy techniques do not achieve sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jan Aelterman , Jonas De Vylder , Hiep Luong , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an invaluable technique for determining high-resolution three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules using transmission particle images. The inherent symmetry in these macromolecules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Qi Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Hai Lin , Mingxu Hu

Electron tomography is a technique used in both materials science and structural biology to image features well below optical resolution limit. In this work, we present a new algorithm for reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 David Ren , Michael Chen , Laura Waller , Colin Ophus

We introduce a Bayesian genetic algorithm for reconstructing atomic models of nanoparticles from a single projection using Z-contrast imaging. The number of atoms in a projected atomic column obtained from annular dark field scanning…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-31 Annick De Backer , Sandra Van Aert , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging imaging modality capable of visualizing proteins and macro-molecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. The low electron-doses used to prevent sample radiation damage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Qinwen Huang , Ye Zhou , Xiaochen Du , Reed Chen , Jianyou Wang , Cynthia Rudin , Alberto Bartesaghi

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

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The application of ionizing radiation for diagnostic imaging is common around the globe. However, the process of imaging, itself, remains to be a relatively hazardous operation. Therefore, it is preferable to use as low a dose of ionizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 A. Demir , M. M. A. Shames , O. N. Gerek , S. Ergin , M. Fidan , M. Koc , M. B. Gulmezoglu , A. Barkana , C. Calisir

Low-electron-dose observation is indispensable for observing various samples using a transmission electron microscope; consequently, image processing has been used to improve transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images. To apply such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Hiroyasu Katsuno , Yuki Kimura , Tomoya Yamazaki , Ichigaku Takigawa

Ptychography is a powerful computational imaging technique that transforms a collection of low-resolution images into a high-resolution sample reconstruction. Unfortunately, algorithms that are currently used to solve this reconstruction…

Accurate computational ptychographic phase reconstructions are enabled by fast direct-electron cameras with high dynamic ranges used for four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM). The availability of open software…

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