Intensity weighted subtraction microscopy approach for image contrast and resolution enhancement

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Korobchevskaya, Kseniya ^a   Peres, Chiara ^a   Li, Zhibin ^a,c   Antipov, Alexei ^b   Sheppard, Colin J R ^a   Diaspro, Alberto ^a   Bianchini, Paolo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Plasmachem GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84968546879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25816     Document Type: Article

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