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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?

Sincerely,

Claire
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Yes it can if we refer to Lothar Schermelleh et al. Science 320, p1332  
(2008) and Gustafsson et al. Biophysical J. 94, p4957 (2008)

The only bottleneck is time and datacongestion. (2 min for a  
512x512x80 volume and 2 min calculation with this) .
So live imaging is nearly impossible I guess, but it should be nice if  
the authors could comment in this.

Patrick

Quoting Claire Brown <[hidden email]>:

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> versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claire
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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


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Sincerely,

Claire
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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (e.g. Schermelleh, Science 2008 or Gustafsson, Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
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Sincerely,

Claire
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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper Biophysical Journal 2008 or Schermelleh, Science 2008) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
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3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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Sincerely,

Claire
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Dear Claire,

*The list always rejects my email, perhaps this one gets through... *

According to recent reports Widefield-SIM (e.g. Schermelleh, Science 2008 or Gustafsson, Biophysical Journal 2008) breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, in terms of resolution you´ll obtain better images with SIM than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?

Sincerely,

Claire
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Dear Claire,

*The list always rejects my email, perhaps this one gets through... *

According to recent reports Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson or Schermelleh paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, in terms of resolution you´ll obtain better images with SIM than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
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3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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Sincerely,

Claire
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Sorry, for the multiple sending of the email. I always got an response from the list, that my email has been rejected so I sent it again without knowing it´s been sent already.

SORRY, won´t happen again!

Steffen



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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
>From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
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Sincerely,

Claire
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Rejected postings warnings keep coming up.

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Sorry, for the multiple sending of the email. I always got an response from the list, that my email has been rejected so I sent it again without knowing it´s been sent already.

SORRY, won´t happen again!

Steffen



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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
>From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
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Sincerely,

Claire

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Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Dear Listers,

There is a third alternative.  I just got back  yesterday from a private meeting hosted by CytoViva.  They have been developing a series of very interesting applications on live cell imaging, both as a single imaging modality and combined with fluorescence.  Although they call their device a "darkfield condenser," the behavior I have seen far exceed darkfield microscopy in several ways:
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Anyway, when you put all of these attributes together, you get high signal/high resolution (beyond the Abbe limit) imaging of live cells without staining.  When you add fluorescence (with their "DFM module"), you can produce a wonderful, live cell image of the cellular context simultaneously with the chemical tagged fluorescence ... all real-time, without the need to overlay computer images.  So, for those of you who need to know exactly where a tagged molecule/drug, etc. is going in a cell, and, especially for those of you who want to document the process over time, this system provides an excellent solution at a reasonable price tag.  (I think that the combined CytoViva/Fluorescence module combo ... including all the necessary light sources, etc., is on the order of 25K.  They now have both upright and inverted versions that fit most microscopes). 

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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
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Sincerely,

Claire
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Does anyone have any of these images they would be willing to share? I am very interested in seeing how this works?  

If you would be willing to share please contact me privately ;-)

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:57 AM
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Subject: AW: Structured Illumination vs Deconvolution

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Sorry, for the multiple sending of the email. I always got an response from the list, that my email has been rejected so I sent it again without knowing it´s been sent already.

SORRY, won´t happen again!

Steffen



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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
>From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

http://www.pi3.uni-stuttgart.de/en/
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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?

Sincerely,

Claire
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Hi Claire,

it depends whether you  want to know more about

1)
three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM)
see:
http://www.cipsm.de/en/publications/researchAreaD/Subdiffraction_Multicolor_Imaging/index.html?style=0

or

2)
structured illumination system like ApoTome or OptiGrid
see: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0403&L=CONFOCAL&E=0&P=117010&B=--%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D_-1133271579%3D%3D_ma%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D&T=text%2Fhtml;%20charset=us-ascii

Kind regards
Anneliese

2008/6/27 Claire Brown <[hidden email]>:

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> I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
> versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claire
>
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Structured illumination can do all sorts of things - it
just depends what your goal is.  Simple structured illumination
systems such as Apotome or Optigrid will give you optical
sectioning.  'Clever' sysyems - mostly based on the work of
Mats Gustafsson - can give you a two-fold resolution improvement
which is not to be sneezed at.  When you get into saturated pattern
structured illumination the resolution (as in STED) is in principle
unlimited (in practice, I guess, around 90 nm).

                                                          Guy



Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
by Guy Cox    CRC Press / Taylor & Francis
    http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
______________________________________________
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Electron Microscope Unit, Madsen Building F09,
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
______________________________________________
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Hi Claire,

it depends whether you  want to know more about

1)
three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM)
see:
http://www.cipsm.de/en/publications/researchAreaD/Subdiffraction_Multicolor_Imaging/index.html?style=0

or

2)
structured illumination system like ApoTome or OptiGrid
see: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0403&L=CONFOCAL&E=0&P=117010&B=--%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D_-1133271579%3D%3D_ma%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D&T=text%2Fhtml;%20charset=us-ascii

Kind regards
Anneliese

2008/6/27 Claire Brown <[hidden email]>:

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> illumination versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claire
>

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The problem appears to be that for some reason every message
gets submitted in duplicate.  This naturally causes the server
to reject the second copy on the grounds it has already been
posted (which it has).  What needs to be sorted is why messages
are getting posted twice when they are only sent once.

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    http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
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Electron Microscope Unit, Madsen Building F09,
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
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I have been getting similar odd notification each time I submit of late.  Wondering if a fix is needed.

Starts of with subject line:  Rejected posting to [hidden email]

Then this subject:  

"Your message  is being returned to  you unprocessed because it  appears to have already  been  distributed to  the  CONFOCAL  list.  That  is, a  message  with identical text  (but possibly with different  mail headers) has been  posted to the list  recently, either by  you or  by someone else.  If you have  reason to resend this message to the list (for instance because you have been notified of a hardware failure with loss of data),  please alter the text of the message in some way  and resend  it to the  list. Altering the  "Subject:" line  or adding blank lines at the top or bottom of the message is not sufficient. Instead, you should add a  sentence or two at  the top explaining why you  are resending the message. This explanation  will help the other subscribers  understand why they are getting two copies of the same message."

I haven't been double posting either.

Ideas on how to remedy?

Mike Ignatius,

Molecular Probes/Invitrogen





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Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:57 AM
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Sorry, for the multiple sending of the email. I always got an response from the list, that my email has been rejected so I sent it again without knowing it´s been sent already.

SORRY, won´t happen again!

Steffen



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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
>From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

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3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

http://www.pi3.uni-stuttgart.de/en/
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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?

Sincerely,

Claire


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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:32:26
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Subject: Re: Structured Illumination vs Deconvolution


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Structured illumination can do all sorts of things - it
just depends what your goal is.  Simple structured illumination
systems such as Apotome or Optigrid will give you optical
sectioning.  'Clever' sysyems - mostly based on the work of
Mats Gustafsson - can give you a two-fold resolution improvement
which is not to be sneezed at.  When you get into saturated pattern
structured illumination the resolution (as in STED) is in principle
unlimited (in practice, I guess, around 90 nm).

                                                          Guy



Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
by Guy Cox    CRC Press / Taylor & Francis
    http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
______________________________________________
Associate Professor Guy Cox, MA, DPhil(Oxon)
Electron Microscope Unit, Madsen Building F09,
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
______________________________________________
Phone +61 2 9351 3176     Fax +61 2 9351 7682
Mobile 0413 281 861
______________________________________________
     http://www.guycox.net
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Hi Claire,

it depends whether you  want to know more about

1)
three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM)
see:
http://www.cipsm.de/en/publications/researchAreaD/Subdiffraction_Multicolor_Imaging/index.html?style=0

or

2)
structured illumination system like ApoTome or OptiGrid
see: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0403&L=CONFOCAL&E=0&P=117010&B=--%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D_-1133271579%3D%3D_ma%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D&T=text%2Fhtml;%20charset=us-ascii

Kind regards
Anneliese

2008/6/27 Claire Brown <[hidden email]>:

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> illumination versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claire
>

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Re: AW: Structured Illumination vs Deconvolution - Another Alternative II

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Dear All

 

Programmable array microscopy looks quite interesting too,. I believe Cairn are developing a system, primarily as an alternative to CLSM or Nipkow disc systems.

 

No commercial interest.

 

Darran

 

 


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Sent: 27 June 2008 19:02
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Dear Listers,

There is a third alternative.  I just got back  yesterday from a private meeting hosted by CytoViva.  They have been developing a series of very interesting applications on live cell imaging, both as a single imaging modality and combined with fluorescence.  Although they call their device a "darkfield condenser," the behavior I have seen far exceed darkfield microscopy in several ways:
(a) while darkfield provides unlimited depth of field, CytoViva provides elegant, discrete optical sectioning
(b) while darkfield is detection limited, tests with a Richardson resolution target indicate that CytoViva produces true resolution on the order of 90-92 nm. 
(c) while darkfield improves the S/N ratio, CytoViva dramatically improves S/N.  This enhanced S/N, combined with its higher resolution makes it an great solution for live imaging of very tiny point-like objects such as nano gold particles. 
To date, I have not seen a satisfactory scientific explanation as to why their system works this way... it just really works.  (For the gurus on the listserver:  If you want to have a discussion, please email me or give me a call offline (972-924-5310).  I've got some ideas about what's going on, but would benefit from your broader experience).

Anyway, when you put all of these attributes together, you get high signal/high resolution (beyond the Abbe limit) imaging of live cells without staining.  When you add fluorescence (with their "DFM module"), you can produce a wonderful, live cell image of the cellular context simultaneously with the chemical tagged fluorescence ... all real-time, without the need to overlay computer images.  So, for those of you who need to know exactly where a tagged molecule/drug, etc. is going in a cell, and, especially for those of you who want to document the process over time, this system provides an excellent solution at a reasonable price tag.  (I think that the combined CytoViva/Fluorescence module combo ... including all the necessary light sources, etc., is on the order of 25K.  They now have both upright and inverted versions that fit most microscopes). 

At the meeting, they also discussed their new Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) system.  While their condenser/illumination provides excellent high resolution/high S to N qualitative images, the HSI is able to collect a visible/near IR spectrum to show quantitative chemical shifts, either over the whole image (pixel by pixel) or in selected ROIs.  This product is being finalized and will be formally announced later this year. In the interim, the folks at CytoViva are actively developing their application expertise, so if you think this would be of value in your lab, I encourage you to contact the head of Technical Sales: Byron Cheatham ([hidden email]). 

For those of you who are just curious, I encourage you to visit their website: www.CytoViva.com .  They have some great videos, both of the instrumentation and applications. 

Caveat:  while I launched the original CytoViva in 2004, I currently have no financial interest in this product.  It's just neat technology.

Hope this is helpful!

Best regards,
Barbara Foster, President
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Dear Claire,

According to recent reports (Schermelleh et al., Science 2008 or Gustafsson et al., Biophysical Journal 2008) Widefield-SIM breaks the resolution by a factor of about 2 to 3, laterally AND axially. Thus, you can separate objects being apart 100nm in lateral direction and 300nm axially.
From my understanding, the restoration of attenuated higher spatial frequencies due to Deconvolution of 'ordinary' Widefield images will give you at best a resolution proposed by Abbe/Rayleigh (in frequency domain k(z)= NA²/2ηλ and k(xy)=2NA/λ). As far as I know (and I know rather little), calculating information beyond that limit using Deconvolution is not possible, since your OTF is zero and hence the information is lost and not just attenuated. Due to the spatial frequency mixing with a certain illumination pattern in SIM (interference of 3 mutually coherent beams in the Gustafsson paper) you will get a way bigger total Optical-Transfer-Function (with higher k-values) since you can additively overlay these OTFs in the frequency domain. Therefore, you´ll obtain images with a higher resolution than with a Widefield/Deconvolution system.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Steffen


Steffen Steinert, Dipl.-Ing.

--------------------------------------
Universität Stuttgart
3. Physikalisches Institut
Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart

Tel.: 049/0711/68569832
Fax:  049/0711/68565281

http://www.pi3.uni-stuttgart.de/en/
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I was wondering if there is any clear advantage to structured illumination
versus deconvolution? Can it actually give you higher resolution?

Sincerely,

Claire

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