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Achieving localization with molecular precision has been of great interest for extending fluorescence microscopy to nanoscopy. MINFLUX pioneers this transition through point spread function (PSF) engineering, yet its performance is…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-07 Kun Zhao , Xinzhu Xu , Wei Ren , Peng Xi

We introduce MINFLUX, a concept for localizing photon emitters in space. By probing the emitter with a local intensity minimum of excitation light, MINFLUX minimizes the fluorescence photons needed for high localization precision. A 22-fold…

MINFLUX is an emerging super-resolution technology that measures the position of single fluorophores with nanometer precision using fewer photons than any other fluorescence imaging or tracking technique. Here, we derive simple and…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-09 Zach Marin , Jonas Ries

MINFLUX microscopy allows for localization of fluorophores with nanometer precision using targeted scanning with an illumination profile with a minimum. However, current scanning patterns and the overall procedure are based on heuristics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Steffen Schultze , Helmut Grubmüller

MINFLUX (Minimal Photon Flux) is a single-molecule imaging technique capable of resolving fluorophores at a precision of <5 nm. Interpretation of the point patterns generated by this technique presents challenges due to variable emitter…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-24 Jack Peyton , Benjamin Davis , Emily Gribbin , Daniel Rolfe , Hannah Mitchell

Point spread function (PSF) engineering of the emitter can code higher spatial frequency information of an image to break diffraction limit but suffer from the complexed optical systems. Here we present a robust strategy to simultaneously…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Chaohao Chen , Baolei Liu , Yongtao Liu , Jiayan Liao , Xuchen Shan , Fan Wang , Dayong Jin

Optical super-resolution microscopy is a key technology for structural biology that offers high imaging contrast and live-cell compatibility. Minimal (fluorescence) photons flux microscopy, or MINFLUX, is an emerging super-resolution…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Lukas Scheiderer , Zach Marin , Jonas Ries

This Point spread function (PSF) plays a crucial role in many computational imaging applications, such as shape from focus/defocus, depth estimation, and fluorescence microscopy. However, the mathematical model of the defocus process is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Renzhi He , Yan Zhuang , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sachin Shah , Matthew Albert Chan , Haoming Cai , Jingxi Chen , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Chahat Deep Singh , Yiannis Aloimonos , Christopher Metzler

The past decade has brought many innovations in optical design for 3D super-resolution imaging of point-like emitters, but these methods often focus on single-emitter localization precision as a performance metric. Here, we propose a simple…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-28 James M. Jusuf , Matthew D. Lew

In the past years, optical fluorescence microscopy (OFM) made steady progress towards increasing the localisation precision of fluorescent emitters in biological samples. The high precision achieved by these techniques has prompted new…

Localization microscopy is an imaging technique in which the positions of individual nanoscale point emitters (e.g. fluorescent molecules) are determined at high precision from their images. This is the key ingredient in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Elias Nehme , Daniel Freedman , Racheli Gordon , Boris Ferdman , Lucien E. Weiss , Onit Alalouf , Reut Orange , Tomer Michaeli , Yoav Shechtman

Pink-beam Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy (pDFXM) is a powerful emerging technique for time-resolved studies of microstructure and strain evolution in bulk crystalline materials. In this work, we systematically assess the performance of pDFXM…

A long-standing challenge in multiple-particle-tracking is the accurate and precise 3D localization of individual particles at close proximity. One established approach for snapshot 3D imaging is point-spread-function (PSF) engineering, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Elias Nehme , Boris Ferdman , Lucien E. Weiss , Tal Naor , Daniel Freedman , Tomer Michaeli , Yoav Shechtman

We consider the high-resolution imaging problem of 3D point source image recovery from 2D data using a method based on point spread function (PSF) engineering. The method involves a new technique, recently proposed by S.~Prasad, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Chao Wang , Raymond Chan , Mila Nikolova , Robert Plemmons , Sudhakar Prasad

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…

Fluorescence microscopy is essential in biological and medical research, providing critical insights into cellular structures. However, limited by optical diffraction and background noise, a substantial amount of hidden information is still…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yongsheng Huang , Jielong Yang , Zhili Wang , Si Chen , Linbo Liu , Xin Ge

The point spread function (PSF) reflects states of a telescope and plays an important role in development of data processing methods, such as PSF based astrometry, photometry and image restoration. However, for wide field small aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Zhengyang Li , Bo Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Liu , Adam Popowicz

Fluorescence depletion microscopy techniques such as STED and RESOLFT require optical fields with a well-defined and spatially confined central intensity minimum to achieve sub-diffraction lateral resolution. Here, we present the design and…

Fluorescent molecules are versatile nanoscale emitters that enable detailed observations of biophysical processes with nanoscale resolution. Because they are well-approximated as electric dipoles, imaging systems can be designed to…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-26 Tingting Wu , Matthew D. Lew
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