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Thomas A. Klar and Stefan W. Hell, Subdiffraction resolution in far-field
fluorescence microscopy PTICS LETTERS / Vol. 24, No. 14 / 954-956, 1999
being imaged onto the focal spot, only also diffraction limited. If the
It is very hard to do this optical modulation. On the contrary,
This discussion will be in the upcoming CRC book I am editing. (Thank
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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).
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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
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> > 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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> > > 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
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