Re: Light reading on optical nanoscopy

Posted by Peng Xi-2 on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Light-reading-on-optical-nanoscopy-tp7578894p7578898.html

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Dear Mark,
    I am not sure what you mean by "well before". Super-resolution is a
term that usually refers to techniques that provides theoretically
'infinitely small' resolution, or down to single molecule size. That's why
although confocal is already better (1.4x better) in resolution, it is
generally not treated as super-resolution. And so to multiphoton microscopy.
   If you have a better candidate on inventing super-resolution, please let
me and everybody know. I am sure that people are keen to know this.


Sincerely,
Peng Xi
Ph. D.    Associate Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Peking University, Beijing, China
Tel: [phone]
Email: [hidden email]


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Mark Cannell
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> Hmm, A very myopic blog on a subject with a rich past.  It was appreciated
> that the Abbe 'limit' was not a limit well before Stephan Hell's work.
> Suggest you might like to research the subject matter a bit deeper?
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> Cheers
>
> PS I hope others don't start advertising their  'blogs' on this list, we
> ban commercial 'blogs', perhaps this should be extend?
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> On 23/08/2012, at 1:32 AM, Peng Xi <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> > Dear List,
> >     I am blogging on optical nanoscopy, in a very casual mode.
> >
> http://xipeng.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/how-optical-super-resolution-is-achieved-1/
> >     It is originally written in Chinese, after I gave a related plenary
> > talk in May 2012. Last talk, in the noon time. And the audiences were
> from
> > all sorts of disciplines, from fresh graduate students to renowned
> > professors. Therefore, I decided to make the talk interesting, and easy
> to
> > follow by everyone. It turns out to be very successful -- much better
> than
> > equations and diagrams. So, I decide to broadcast it by blogging. :)
> >     Hope you like it.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Peng Xi
> > Ph. D.    Associate Professor
> > Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
> > Peking University, Beijing, China
> > Tel: [phone]
> > Email: [hidden email]
>
> Mark  B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
> Professor of Cardiac Cell Biology
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> Bristol
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