From micro to nano: recent advances in high-resolution microscopy

Y Garini, BJ Vermolen, IT Young - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2005 - Elsevier
Improving the spatial resolution of optical microscopes is important for a vast number of
applications in the life sciences. Optical microscopy allows intact samples and living cells to …

True optical resolution beyond the Rayleigh limit achieved by standing wave illumination

JT Frohn, HF Knapp, A Stemmer - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
During the last decade, various efforts have been undertaken to enhance the resolution of
optical microscopes, mostly because of their importance in biological sciences. Herein, we …

FPscope: a field-portable high-resolution microscope using a cellphone lens

S Dong, K Guo, P Nanda, R Shiradkar… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
The large consumer market has made cellphone lens modules available at low-cost and in
high-quality. In a conventional cellphone camera, the lens module is used to demagnify the …

Exploiting disorder for perfect focusing

IM Vellekoop, A Lagendijk, AP Mosk - Nature photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Optical microscopy and manipulation methods rely on the ability to focus light to a small
volume. However, in inhomogeneous media such as biological tissue, light is scattered out …

Structured illumination microscopy using unknown speckle patterns

E Mudry, K Belkebir, J Girard, J Savatier, E Le Moal… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Using spatially non-uniform illumination significantly improves the resolution of light
microscopy. Indeed, frequency mixing between the object and the illumination permits the …

Field-portable reflection and transmission microscopy based on lensless holography

M Lee, O Yaglidere, A Ozcan - Biomedical optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a lensfree dual-mode holographic microscope that can image specimens in
both transmission and reflection geometries using in-line transmission and off-axis reflection …

3D differential phase contrast microscopy

M Chen, L Tian, L Waller - Biomedical optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate 3D phase and absorption recovery from partially coherent intensity images
captured with a programmable LED array source. Images are captured through-focus with …

Focal modulation microscopy

N Chen, CH Wong, CJR Sheppard - Optics Express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We report a novel light microscopy method for high resolution molecular imaging of thick
biological tissues with one photon excited fluorescence. Effective optical sectioning and …

Laser scanning reflection-matrix microscopy for aberration-free imaging through intact mouse skull

S Yoon, H Lee, JH Hong, YS Lim, W Choi - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
A mouse skull is a barrier for high-resolution optical imaging because its thick and
inhomogeneous internal structures induce complex aberrations varying drastically from …

Computational adaptive optics for live three-dimensional biological imaging

Z Kam, B Hanser, MGL Gustafsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Light microscopy of thick biological samples, such as tissues, is often limited by aberrations
caused by refractive index variations within the sample itself. This problem is particularly …