A novel approach to determining the three-dimensional location of microscopic objects with applications to 3D particle tracking

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6443, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ram, Sripad ^a,b   Chao, Jerry ^a,c   Prabhat, Prashant ^a,c   Ward, E Sally ^a   Ober, Raimund J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

3D localization accuracy; 3D single molecule tracking; Cramer Rao inequality; Fisher information matrix; Multifocal plane microscopy; Single molecule microscopy

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFORMATION THEORY; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; CRAMER RAO INEQUALITY; MULTIFOCAL PLANE MICROSCOPY; WIDEFIELD MICROSCOPE;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 34247344904     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.698763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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