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Fluorescence microscopy is a critical tool across various disciplines, from materials science to biomedical research, yet it is limited by the diffraction limit of resolution. Advanced super-resolution techniques such as localization…

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as a widely adopted super-resolution fluorescence imaging modality, offering high speed, low phototoxicity, large field-of-view, and compatibility with conventional probes. However, when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jiaming Qian , Jing Feng , Hongjun Wu , Maoxian Zhang , Dongqin Lu , Tianchi Kang , Xinyu Han , Qian Chen , Chao Zuo

Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) provide sub-angstrom lateral resolution; however, the large convergence angle greatly reduces the depth of field. For microscopes with a small depth of field,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-15 Robert Hovden , Huolin L. Xin , David A. Muller

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) uses a set of images captured with different illumination patterns to computationally reconstruct resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we propose an alternative approach using a single…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Guanghan Meng , Laura Waller

Fluorescence microscopy has enabled a dramatic development in modern biology by visualizing biological organisms with micrometer scale resolution. However, due to the diffraction limit, sub-micron/nanometer features are difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Varun Mannam , Yide Zhang , Xiaotong Yuan , Scott Howard

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) improves resolution by down-modulating high-frequency information of an object to fit within the passband of the optical system. Generally, the reconstruction process requires prior knowledge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Li-Hao Yeh , Lei Tian , Laura Waller

Video-rate super-resolution imaging through biological tissue can visualize and track biomolecule interplays and transportations inside cellular organisms. Structured illumination microscopy allows for wide-field super resolution…

Expansion Microscopy is a super-resolution technique in which physically enlarging samples in an isotropic manner increases inter-molecular distances such that nano-scale structures can be resolved using light microscopy. This is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-22 Shakila Behzadi , Jacquelin Ho , Zainab Tanvir , Gal Haspel , Limor Freifeld , Kristen E. Severi

Sub-diffraction resolution imaging has played a pivotal role in biological research by visualizing key, but previously unresolvable, sub-cellular structures. Unfortunately, applications of far-field sub-diffraction resolution are currently…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Shwetadwip Chowdhury , Will J. Eldridge , Adam Wax , Joseph A. Izatt

We demonstrate that a deep neural network can significantly improve optical microscopy, enhancing its spatial resolution over a large field-of-view and depth-of-field. After its training, the only input to this network is an image acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yair Rivenson , Zoltan Gorocs , Harun Gunaydin , Yibo Zhang , Hongda Wang , Aydogan Ozcan

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) is an imaging technique for achieving both super-resolution (SR) and optical sectioning (OS) in wide-field microscopy. It consists in illuminating the sample with periodic patterns at different…

A resolution-enhanced dark-field microscope by structured light illumination is proposed to improve resolution and contrast. A set of phase-shifted fringes are projected to the sample plane at large angle to capture modulated dark-field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Shaobai Li , Bofan Song , Rongguang Liang

FRET-based approaches are a unique tool for sensing the immediate surroundings and interactions of (bio)molecules. FRET imaging and FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy) enable the visualization of the spatial distribution of…

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is indispensable in diverse applications ranging from microelectronics to food processing because it provides large depth-of-field images with a resolution beyond the optical diffraction limit. However,…

The blind structured illumination microscopy (SIM) strategy proposed in (Mudry et al., 1992) is fully re-founded in this paper, unveiling the central role of the sparsity of the illumination patterns in the mechanism that drives…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-04-26 Simon Labouesse , Awoke Negash , Jérôme Idier , Sébastien Bourguignon , Thomas Mangeat , Penghuan Liu , Anne Sentenac , Marc Allain

Optical microscopy is one of the oldest scientific instruments that is still used in forefront research. Ernst Abbe's nineteenth century formulation of the resolution limit in microscopy let generations of scientists believe that optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-09 Siegfried Weisenburger , Vahid Sandoghdar

Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy has emerged as a powerful technique providing visualization of biological structures at the molecular level in living samples. In this technique, the diffraction limit is broken by selectively…

We demonstrate a simple scheme for high-resolution imaging of nanoplasmonic structures that basically removes most of the resolution limiting allowed light usually transmitted to the far field. This is achieved by implementing a Fourier…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. Mollet , S. Huant , A. Drezet

In 2011, super-resolution imaging by microsphere superlens was emerged as a simple yet effective method to overcome the diffraction limit that limits the resolution of conventional lenses. Significant progress has since been made. Key…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Zengbo Wang , Boris Luk'yanchuk , Limin Wu

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a wide-field super-resolution technique normally limited to roughly twice the diffraction-limited resolution ($\approx 100$--$200$~nm). Surpassing this bound is a classic ill-posed inverse…