Publications related to Superresolution with Optically-Motivated Blind Deconvolution

Subsurface fluorescence time-of-flight imaging using a large-format single-photon avalanche diode sensor for tumor depth assessment

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Yichen Feng

Significance: Fluorescence guidance is used clinically by surgeons to visualize anatomical and/or physiological phenomena in the surgical field that are difficult or impossible to detect by the naked eye. Such phenomena include tissue perfusion or molecula ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2024

Diffraction Tomography from Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy: Numerical Feasibility

Michaël Unser, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez, Emmanuel Emilien Louis Soubies

Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is a fluorescence microscopy technique that achieves super-resolution imaging by sequentially activating and localizing random sparse subsets of fluorophores. Each activated fluorophore emits light that then s ...

IEEE2021

SPAD array technology enables fluctuation-contrast super-resolution in a confocal microscope

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A fluorescence correlation contrast is a straightforward approach to super-resolution imaging. Combining a SPAD array with a novel detection scheme (ISM), we obtain images with up to x4 times resolution enhancement. ...

OSA-SPIE2021

Single-molecule localization microscopy

Suliana Manley, Juliette Griffie

Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) describes a family of powerful imaging techniques that dramatically improve spatial resolution over standard, diffraction-limited microscopy techniques and can image biological structures at the molecular scal ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Large-Format Time-Gated SPAD Cameras for Real-Time Phasor-Based FLIM

Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is an imaging modality often used to monitor biochemical properties of a cell or a tissue. In addition to conventional fluorescence microscopy features, such as selective labeling and non-invasiveness, FLIM e ...

EPFL2021

Active illumination and computational Methods for Temporal and Spectral Super-Resolution Microscopy

Christian Jaques

Light microscopy is a tool of paramount importance for biologists and has been constantly improved for the past four centuries. Despite many recent developments, microscopy techniques still require improvement, especially to reach better temporal and spect ...

EPFL2020

Waveguide platform and methods for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of sub-cellular structures

Anna Archetti

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is widespread, owing to its demonstrated ability to resolve dynamical processes within cells and to identify the structure and position of specific proteins in the interior of protein complexes. Nowadays, subcellula ...

EPFL2019

Photons in - numbers out: perspectives in quantitative fluorescence microscopy for in situ protein counting

Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer

The full understanding of cellular functions requires information about protein numbers for various biomolecular assemblies and their dynamics, which can be partly accessed by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Yet, many protein assemblies and cellu ...

2019

Strategies for increasing the throughput of super-resolution microscopies

Suliana Manley, Dora Mahecic, Juliette Griffie

Fluorescence microscopy methods have been developed to circumvent the diffraction limit by exploiting nonlinearities in the interactions between light and fluorophores. Initially, these methods were up to orders of magnitude slower than standard microscopi ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Imaging tissues and cells beyond the diffraction limit with structured illumination microscopy and Bayesian image reconstruction

Tomas Lukes, Jakub Pospisil

Background: Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a family of methods in optical fluorescence microscopy that can achieve both optical sectioning and super-resolution effects. SIM is a valuable method for high-resolution imaging of fixed cells or tis ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

Dielectric-sphere-based microsystem for optical super-resolution imaging

Gergely Huszka

Well-established imaging techniques proved that features below the diffraction limit can be observed optically using so-called super-resolution microscopies, which overcome Abbe's resolution limit. In traditional far-field microscopy, the introduction of f ...

EPFL2018

Custom Adapter For Extended Field-Of-View Microsphere-Based Scanning Super-Resolution Microscopy

Martinus Gijs, Gergely Huszka

We present a dielectric microsphere-based super resolution optical microscope that can image a sample beyond the classical diffraction limit [1]. The super resolution imaging capability of a single microsphere normally is restricted to an area of similar t ...

IEEE2018

Nanopatterning of a Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymer by Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Samuel Zimmermann

The miniaturization of nanometer-sized multicolor fluorescent features is of continuous significance for counterfeit security features, data storage, and sensors. Recent advances in engineering of stimuli-responsive supramolecular polymeric materials that ...

2017

Microsphere-based super-resolution scanning optical microscope

Martinus Gijs, Hui Yang, Gergely Huszka

High-refractive index dielectric microspheres positioned within the field of view of a microscope objective in a dielectric medium can focus the light into a so-called photonic nanojet. A sample placed in such nanojet can be imaged by the objective with su ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Coherent imaging from bacteria to multicellular organisms

Séverine Coquoz

Structural and functional imaging of cells, tissues and organisms is crucial for understanding biomedical processes. Fluorescence microscopy is an established tool and has contributed to many discoveries in the life sciences. This technique provides molecu ...

EPFL2017

Analytical Methods, Correlative Microscopy and Software Tools for Quantitative Single Molecule Localization Microscopy

Arun Shivanandan

Single Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM) techniques, such as PhotoActivated Localization Microscopy (PALM) and STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy(STORM), can get around the diffraction limited resolution of conventional fluorescent microsco ...

EPFL2015

Challenges in quantitative single molecule localization microscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Marco Scarselli, Arun Shivanandan, Hendrik Georges Deschout

Single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), which can provide up to an order of magnitude improvement in spatial resolution over conventional fluorescence microscopy, has the potential to be a highly useful tool for quantitative biological experiments. ...

Elsevier2014

Progress in quantitative single-molecule localization microscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Paolo Annibale, Marco Scarselli, Arun Shivanandan, Hendrik Georges Deschout

With the advent of single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) techniques, intracellular proteins can be imaged at unprecedented resolution with high specificity and contrast. These techniques can lead to a better understanding of cell functioning, as t ...

Springer2014

Functional and Structural Imaging with Optical Coherence Microscopy : Principles & Applications

Arno Pino Bouwens

Fluorescence microscopy techniques are well established research tools and have proven their use in a large variety of biomedical applications. Microscopic molecular contrast is achieved by imaging fluorescent dyes that bind specifically to a molecule of i ...

EPFL2013

Structural and Functional Stochastic Super-Resolution Microscopy

Stefan Geissbühler

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is a promising tool with the potential to strengthen our understanding of living processes. Based on the ability to switch fluorophores on and off in an either deterministic or stochastic manner, the fundamental lim ...

EPFL2013