A comparative study of high resolution microscopy imaging modalities using a three-dimensional resolution measure

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24377-24402

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

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; FOCUSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

3D IMAGING; 3D RESOLUTION; BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DISTANCE DETERMINATION; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; DISTANCE INFORMATION; FOCAL PLANE; FOCUS POINTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; OPTICAL AXIS; PHOTOACTIVATABLE; POINT SOURCES; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; SINGLE-MOLECULE MICROSCOPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RESOLUTION; TWO-POINT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73949134269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024377     Document Type: Article

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