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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging modality that provides unique insights into the dynamics of proteins and other building blocks of life. The algorithmic challenge of jointly estimating the poses, 3D structure, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Axel Levy , Gordon Wetzstein , Julien Martel , Frederic Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an extremely powerful method for resolving structural details of large biomolecular complexes. However, challenging problems in single-particle methods remain open because of (1) the low…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Shengnan Lyu , Christian Wülker , Yuqing Pan , Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jianhao Zheng , Yilin Cai , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Coherent low-energy electrons have been demonstrated as a practical tool for imaging individual macromolecules and two-dimensional (2D) crystals. Low-energy electrons exhibit unique properties: low radiation damage to biological molecules…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-29 Tatiana Latychevskaia

The epitaxial growth of complex oxide thin films provide three avenues to generate unique properties: the ability to influence the 3-dimensional structure of the film, the presence of a surface, and the generation of an interface. In all…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-31 N. J. C. Ingle , A. Yuskauskas , R. Wicks , M. Paul , S. Leung

We introduce a probabilistic approach to ptychographic reconstruction in computational imaging. Ptychography is an imaging method where the complex amplitude of an object is estimated from a sequence of diffraction measurements. We…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-09 Hajime Ueda , Shun Katakami , Masato Okada

Multiple approaches to use deep learning for image restoration have recently been proposed. Training such approaches requires well registered pairs of high and low quality images. While this is easily achievable for many imaging modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tim-Oliver Buchholz , Mareike Jordan , Gaia Pigino , Florian Jug

Extracting as much information as possible about an object when probing with a limited number of photons is an important goal with applications from biology and security to metrology. Imaging with a few photons is a challenging task as the…

Motivation: Cellular Electron CryoTomography (CECT) enables 3D visualization of cellular organization at near-native state and in sub-molecular resolution, making it a powerful tool for analyzing structures of macromolecular complexes and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-14 Min Xu , Xiaoqi Chai , Hariank Muthakana , Xiaodan Liang , Ge Yang , Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Eric Xing

Ptychographic Coherent Diffractive Imaging enables diffraction-limited imaging of nanoscale structures at extreme ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths, where high-quality image-forming optics are not available. However, its reliance on a set…

Achieving a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of proteins is greatly facilitated by the knowledge of their structures, thermodynamics and dynamics. All this information can be provided in an effective manner in terms of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 Massimiliano Bonomi , Michele Vendruscolo

The recent improvements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in the past few years are now allowing to observe molecular complexes at atomic resolution. As a consequence, numerous structures derived from cryo-EM are now available in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-04 Mikael Trellet , Gydo van Zundert , Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin

Dielectric tensor tomography is an imaging technique for mapping three-dimensional distributions of dielectric properties in transparent materials. This work introduces an enhanced illumination strategy employing a micro-electromechanical…

Advances on cryo-electron imaging technologies have led to a rapidly increasing number of density maps. Alignment and comparison of density maps play a crucial role in interpreting structural information, such as conformational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Bintao He , Fa Zhang , Chenjie Feng , Jianyi Yang , Xin Gao , Renmin Han

The understanding of protein structure, folding, and interaction with other proteins remains one of the grand challenges of modern biology. Tremendous progress has been made thanks to X-ray- or electron-based techniques that have provided…

Organoids offer a promising alternative in biomedical research and clinical medicine, with better feature recapitulation than 2D cultures. They also have more consistent responses with clinical results when compared to animal models.…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-15 Caroline Ferguson , Yan Li , Yi Zhang , Xueju Wang

Feynman once asked physicists to build better electron microscopes to be able to watch biology at work. While electron microscopes can now provide atomic resolution, electron beam induced specimen damage precludes high resolution imaging of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Thomas Juffmann , Stewart A. Koppell , Brannon B. Klopfer , Colin Ophus , Robert Glaeser , Mark A. Kasevich

Classifying structural variability in noisy projections of biological macromolecules is a central problem in Cryo-EM. In this work, we build on a previous method for estimating the covariance matrix of the three-dimensional structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Joakim Andén , Eugene Katsevich , Amit Singer

While imaging individual atoms can routinely be achieved in high resolution transmission electron microscopy, visualizing the potential distribution of individually charged adsorbates leading to a phase shift of the probing electron wave is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Flavio Wicki , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Electron microscopy is a powerful tool for studying the properties of materials down to their atomic structure. In many cases, the quantitative interpretation of images requires simulations based on atomistic structure models. These…