• DocumentCode
    500000
  • Title

    3D fluorescent particle tracking with nanometer scale accuracies using a double-helix point spread function

  • Author

    Pavani, Sri Rama Prasanna ; Piestun, Rafael

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate parallel three-dimensional (3D) tracking of multiple fluorescent microspheres with nanometer scale accuracies by engineering the 3D point spread function of a wide-field microscope to present a double-helix along the optical axis.
  • Keywords
    fluorescence; nanophotonics; optical microscopy; optical tracking; optical transfer function; particle tracks; 3D double-helix point spread function; multiple fluorescent microsphere; nanometer scale; parallel 3D particle tracking; wide-field microscope; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluorescence; Focusing; Nanobioscience; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical modulation; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Particle tracking; (110.1758) Computational imaging; (180.6900) Three-dimensional microscopy; (280.7250) Velocimetry;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5225378