State-of-the-Art in Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2022) | Viewed by 10180
Special Issue Editors
2. Nanoscopy & NIC@IIT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy;
3. Genoa Instruments s.r.l.i., Genoa, Italy
Interests: super-resolution optical microscopy; image scanning microscopy; confocal microscopy; fluorescence microscopy; microscopy architectures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Super-resolution optical microscopy techniques stand as an invaluable tool for the life sciences, allowing the selective observation of diverse structures and processes of interest with diffraction-unlimited spatial resolution, including also in living cells and tissues. These approaches exploit physical or chemical strategies to eventually achieve resolutions down to the single-digit nanometer range, thus providing critical insights for a variety of biological questions.
In the last decades, the scientific community has proposed many strategies to overcome the diffraction barrier, each performing differently in critical aspects such as the maximum achievable spatial and temporal resolution, invasiveness, dependency on post-processing analysis, and compatibility with time-resolved assays. In such a broad and exciting scenario, it is often possible to find the technique characterized by the performance fingerprint that best suits the experimental needs.
Within this framework, this Special Issue aims to cover advancements in the field of super-resolution optical microscopy by presenting novel techniques, improvements in technological implementations, new analysis tools to increase the information output, and critical applications.
Dr. Marco Castello
Dr. Giorgio Tortarolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- super-resolution
- optical microscopy
- nanoscopy
- fluorescence microscopy
- image analysis
- imaging
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