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Oh my dear, I will be driven crazy Alby... I cannot read Germany. But I
will surely list it there. :)
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> i propose confining this discussion to the far-field...what about the
> ultramicroscope?
> Siedentopf, H., & Zsigmondy, R. (1902). Uber Sichtbarmachung und
> Größenbestimmung ultramikoskopischer Teilchen, mit besonderer Anwendung auf
> Goldrubingläser. Annalen der Physik, 315(1), 1–39.
> Il giorno 23/ago/2012, alle ore 10:17, Guy Cox <
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> scritto:
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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
> >
> > Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
> > by Guy Cox 2nd edition, 2012 CRC Press
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012 4:59 PM
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> > Subject: Re: Light reading on optical nanoscopy
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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: +86 10-6276 7155
> > Email:
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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?
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>> Tel: +86 10-6276 7155
> >>> Email:
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> >>
> >> Mark B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
> >> Professor of Cardiac Cell Biology
> >> School of Physiology& Pharmacology
> >> Medical Sciences Building
> >> University of Bristol
> >> Bristol
> >> BS8 1TD UK
> >>
> >>
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