| Date | 15th, Dec 2019 |
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The researchers tested their new nanoscopy approach technique by using it to image a 60-nanometer ring (inset). The new nanoscopy approach could resolve the ring using just 10 image frames while traditional approaches needed up to 4000 frames to achieve the same result. Credit: Zhongyang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ghost imaging speeds up super-resolution microscopy: New nanoscopy approach poised to capture biological processes occurring inside cells at submillisecond speeds.
Researchers have used advanced imaging approaches to achieve super-resolution microscopy at unprecedented speeds. The new method should make it possible to capture the details of processes occurring in living cells at speeds not previously possible.
Super-resolution techniques, often called nanoscopy, achieve nano-scale resolution by overcoming the diffraction limit of light. Although nanoscopy can capture images of individual molecules inside cells, it is difficult to use with living cells because hundreds or thousands of imaging frames are needed to reconstruct an image – a process too slow to capture quickly changing dynamics.
