Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Super-resolution spectroscopic microscopy via photon localization

  • Biqin Dong,
  • Luay Almassalha,
  • Ben E. Urban,
  • The-Quyen Nguyen,
  • Satya Khuon,
  • Teng-Leong Chew,
  • Vadim Backman,
  • Cheng Sun,
  • Hao F. Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12290
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Photon localization microscopy uses stochastic emission events from fluorescent molecules to enable super-resolution imaging, but spectroscopic information is lost. Here, the authors improve the spatial resolution of this technique with a method that also detects each blink’s fluorescence spectrum.