http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Johannes-Amon-posted-new-Zeiss-white-paper-on-airyscanning-at-tp7582420p7582425.html
I think you're right. When I read this white paper again closely, it actually sounds more like what was recently branded "re-scan confocal microscopy":
De Luca, G. M. R., Breedijk, R. M. P., Brandt, R. A. J., Zeelenberg, C. H. C., de Jong, B. E., Timmermans, W., et al. (2013). Re-scan confocal microscopy: Scanning twice for better resolution.Biomed. Opt. Express, 4, 2644-2656.
A lot of the same references are in this article, and this also cites Enderlein and York.
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> Very interesting.
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> It's most likely based on the Image Scanning Microscopy (ref 4 of the white
> paper; it's a physics journal, so the style is a bit different), it allows
> up to 2x resolution improvement (as all the other linear structured
> illumination methods), but with the Enderlain's image processing you
> actually sacrifice axial resolution if you want high SNR (corresponds to
> bigger pinhole). Unfortunately they don't provide much details in the white
> paper about the new image processing approach that gives also axial
> superresolution...
>
> Moreover, I think this approach is not quite compatible with other benefits
> of modern confocals, such as spectral detection or lifetime imaging.
>
> Looking forward to seeing further advances in this direction.
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> Zdenek Svindrych, Charles univ., Czech Rep.
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> The white paper states:
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> "An acentric, shifted pinhole detector produces an image of about the same
> resolution as a pinhole detector which is aligned to the optical axis,
> although smaller in amplitude and shifted by half the displacement. This
> insight has been the motivation for constructing an area detector for a
> confocal microscope. Such a detector should cover more than 1 AU and contain
> multiple sub-Airy detector elements. Detection efficiency will be
> significantly increased by reassigning the detected photons from the shifted
> detector elements to the central detection position and summing up the back
> shifted signal from all detector elements. [2] No light is rejected by a
> closed pinhole but instead collected by the off-axis detector elements.
> Therefore an increased signal level arises from the reassignment of photons
> to a smaller spatial region."
>
> It sure does sound a lot like Jim Pawley's array detector pinhole idea to
> me, which is outlined in quite clearly chapter 2 of the Handbook of
> Biological Confocal Microscopy (3d Edition):
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>
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-45524-2_2>
> See Figure 2.15 in particular. There isn't much detail in the white paper to
> know what the differences are however, and there is no citation of Pawley's
> work on this. Here's the relevent passage from the chapter:
>
> "In addition to high QE, Si photon detectors have a variety of other
> practical advantages. As the sensitive element in such a detector is
> typically very small (5–30 mm on a side), selective use of only a few
> elements in a small, planar, 2D array could permit it to operate in the CLSM
> as a combination pinhole and detector. Figure 2.15 is a sketch of what such
> a detector might look like. After each pixel interval of the microscope, the
> charge pattern in the 5 x 5 sensor array at the top would be transferred to
> the read register and then the signal in all 25 pixels would be read out
> sequentially at about 35MHz. These 25 values could then be “decoded” in a
> number of possible ways, the most straightforward of which would be to
> provide three separate signals corresponding to the summed signals from the
> brown, orange, and red areas of the sensor array. In this way, it would be
> possible to collect signal simultaneously at three different pinhole sizes.
> With such a detector, pinhole alignment could be done elec- tronically
> simply by searching for the detector element producing the most signal from
> a planar specimen and misalignment could be detected on the fly by
> comparing, for example, summed output from the 5 pixels on the left with the
> 5 on the right (Pawley, 1996)."
>
> The other reference from 1996 has even more details about this idea:
>
> CCDiode: an optimal detector for laser confocal microscopes
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http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.237490>
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> On 2014-07-24, at 8:57 PM, George McNamara wrote:
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>> Johannes Amon posted the URL to download a new Zeiss white paper on
> airyscanning
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http://www.zeiss.com/airyscan <<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%">https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%
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>> Johannes post is at
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https://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID> =5898093815864004612&gid=837267
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>> and he welcomes comments.
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>> Airyscanning: A Novel Approach to Confocal Imaging
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>> It is with great pleasure that I am able to share with you a new White
> Paper by ZEISS. Airyscanning is a new detection concept that uses an array
> detector to oversample each Airy disk in order to gain sensitivity,
> resolution and speed. I'm curious to hear what you think of it! Download the
> free White Paper here:
http://www.zeiss.com/airyscan <
https://www.linkedin.
> com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeiss%2Ecom%2Fairyscan&urlhash=fM6m&_t=
> tracking_anet>
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>> Vladimir Zhukarev and I have already commented at the linkedin group. My
> comments are:
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>> Zeiss cites some but not all of the literature of using a (small) area
> array to collect light that would usually be blocked by the pinhole. I'm
> thinking that Jim Pawley had this, but could be 'off by one' (Tony Wilson,
> Guy Cox, etc?).
>>
>> Too bad Zeiss and the other microscope companies have pathetically slow
> spatial deconvolution AND on confocal microscopes deconvolution is a
> separate post-processing step the user has to undertake manually (I managed
> Leica confocals since 2000 and Zeiss LSM710 since 2009 ... just trained this
> week on a Leica SP8 confocal, LAS AF 3.x, haven't seen all the features, but
> deconvolution looks like still a separate manual step).
>>
>> Further, to get the maximum benefit from a confocal microscope, when
> acquiring multiple channels, should BOTH spatially deconvolve AND spectrally
> unmix. See the Hoppe et al 2008 Biphys J paper,
>>
>>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339754>>
>> their 3DFSR was tested with FRET specimens but the (claimed) 10x improved
> SNR should apply to any specimens.
>>
>> I also note that the Zeiss (claimed) 1.7x improvement could be massively
> improved by acquiring 300 images (per plane) and doing 3B microscopy or SOFI
> - for 3B see
>>
>>
http://www.coxphysics.com/3b/>>
>> for introduction to 3B (and yes, could work in 3D). 3B is also very slow.
> Parallel processing is speeding up 3B, see
>>
http://www.optnano.com/content/2/1/7/abstract>>
>> For an entry point to SOFI see
>>
>>
http://www.optnano.com/content/2/1/2/abstract>>
>> As I've noted on the Confocal Listserv
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>>
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1407&L=CONFOCALMICROSCOPY&P=5920>>
>> I am psyched what parallel processing is doing (ex. NVidia TITAN Z GPU
> card, Intel Phi 7120 card, lots of Phi's, as at
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/> stampede/ ) and will get even better with 2015 Knights Landing CPU's (and
> NVidia, IBM, HP if its "The Machine" meets their goals, etc).
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>> George
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