http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Light-reading-on-optical-nanoscopy-tp7578894p7578903.html
microscopy, 4Pi and SIM should be included. Actually I have done so in a
Y. Ding, *P. Xi**, Q. Ren, “Hacking the optical diffraction limit: Review
theme. This theme is also in coherent with Stefan Hell's Science 2009
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> Apart from Mark's suggestions, Synge proposed near-field microscopy in
> 1928 (Philosophical Magazine 6, 356). It was first demonstrated in visible
> light in 1984 (D.W. Pohl, W. Denk, and M. Lanz (1984). "Optical
> stethoscopy: Image recording with resolution λ/20". Appl. Phys. Lett. 44
> (7): 651.) though it had been achieved in the microwave region as early as
> 1972. This is all way before the concept of STED had even been proposed
> (1994) let alone demonstrated (2002).
>
> It's not fair to say that only 'unlimited' methods are true
> super-resolution. Both 4-pi (proposed by Cremer & Cremer in 1971) and
> linear structured illumination are generally regarded (and marketed) as
> super-resolution. Linear structured illumination was demonstrated two
> years before STED (Gustafsson, M.G.L. 2000 Surpassing the lateral
> resolution limit by a factor of two using structured illumination
> microscopy. Journal of Microscopy 198 (2) , pp. 82-87). I5 microscopy,
> another technique offering substantial but not unlimited super-resolution,
> was achieved even earlier (Gustafsson, Agard & Sedat, Journal of
> Microscopy, 195, 10-16, 1999).
>
> Guy
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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
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> Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
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> 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?
> >
> > 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 <
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> > > *****
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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
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> > > Email:
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> > Mark B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
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