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Super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) is a widely used technique for enhancing the resolution of fluorescence imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Most existing SR-SIM methods rely on Moir\'e effect-based physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Junzheng Peng , Jiahao Xian , Xi Lin , Manhong Yao , Shiping Li , Jingang Zhong

In this work, we propose a structured illumination (SI) method based on a two-photon excitation (TPE) scanning laser beam. Advantages of TPE methods include optical sectioning, low photo-toxicity, and robustness in the face of sample…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Alex Bardales , Qinggele Li , Bingzhao Zhu , Xiaodong Tao , Marc Reinig , Joel Kubby

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) reconstructs a super-resolved image from multiple raw images captured with different illumination patterns; hence, acquisition speed is limited, making it unsuitable for dynamic scenes. We propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Fanglin Linda Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Laura Waller

By integrating a phase-only Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) into the illumination arm of a cylindrical-lens-based Selective Plane Illumination Microscope (SPIM), we have created a versatile system able to deliver high quality images by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Chiara Garbellotto , Jonathan M. Taylor

Over the past decade, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has found its niche in super-resolution (SR) microscopy due to its fast imaging speed and low excitation intensity. However, due to the significantly higher light dose compared…

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is one of the most versatile super-resolution techniques. Yet, its application to live imaging has been so far mainly limited to fluorescent and stationary specimens. Here, we present advancements in…

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as an essential technique for 3D and live-cell super-resolution imaging. However, to date, there has not been a dedicated workshop or journal issue covering the various aspects of SIM,…

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…

We propose to enhance the performance of localized plasmon structured illumination microscopy (LP-SIM) via intensity correlations. LP-SIM uses sub-wavelength illumination patterns to encode high spatial frequency information. It can enhance…

Sub-diffraction resolution, gentle sample illumination, and the possibility to image in multiple colors make Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) an imaging technique which is particularly well suited for live cell observations. Here,…

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

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has become an important technique for optical super-resolution imaging because it allows a doubling of image resolution at speeds compatible for live-cell imaging. However, the reconstruction of SIM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Charles N. Christensen , Edward N. Ward , Pietro Lio , Clemens F. Kaminski

We describe a two-beam interference structured illumination fluorescence microscope. The novelty of the presented system lies in its simplicity. A programmable electro-optical spatial light modulator in an intermediate image plane enables…

By exploiting the nonlinear responses of the fluorescent probes, the spatial resolution of structured illumination microscopy(SIM) can be further increased. However, due to the complex reconstruction process, the traditional reconstruction…

The structured illumination microscopy using unknown speckle patterns has shown the capacity to surpass the Abbe's diffraction barrier, giving the possibility to design cheap and versatile SIM devices. However, the state-of-the-art joint…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Penghuan Liu

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) achieves superresolution in fluorescence imaging through patterned illumination and computational image reconstruction, yet current methods require bulky, costly modulation optics and high-precision…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-15 Tamal Roy , Peter T. Brown , Douglas P. Shepherd , Lisa V. Poulikakos

We present experimental demonstration of tilt-mirror assisted transmission structured illumination microscopy (tSIM) that offers a large field of view super resolution imaging. An assembly of custom-designed tilt-mirrors are employed as the…

We present a new two-snapshot structured light illumination (SLI) reconstruction algorithm for fast image acquisition. The new algorithm, which only requires two mutually {\pi} phase-shifted raw structured images, is implemented on a…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yunlong Meng , Wei Lin , Chenglin Li , Shih-chi Chen

The structured illumination (SI) architecture can be adopted in a digital holographic (DH) microscope to enhance the spatial resolution. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a compact and simple SI method in a self-referencing…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-18 S. Hossein S. Yaghoubi , Samira Ebrahimi , Masoomeh Dashtdar

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is an optical super-resolution technique that enables live-cell imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Reconstruction of SIM data is prone to artefacts, which becomes problematic when imaging highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Charles N. Christensen , Meng Lu , Edward N. Ward , Pietro Lio , Clemens F. Kaminski