Localizing axial dense emitters based on single-helix point spread function and deep learning

Autor: Ji, Yihong, Chen, Danni, Wu, Hanzhe, Xiang, Gan, Li, Heng, Yu, Bin, Qu, Junle
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (STED) can achieve a spatial resolution as high as several nanometers. As a point scanning imaging method, it requires 3D scanning to complete the imaging of 3D samples. The time-consuming 3D scanning can be compressed into a 2D one in the non-diffracting Bessel-Bessel STED (BB-STED) where samples are effectively excited by an optical needle. However, the image is just the 2D projection, i.e., there is no real axial resolution. Therefore, we propose a method to encode axial information to axially dense emitters by using a detection optical path with single-helix point spread function (SH-PSF), and then predicted the depths of the emitters by means of deep learning. Simulation demonstrated that, for a density 1~ 20 emitters in a depth range of 4 nm, an axial precision of ~35 nm can be achieved. Our method also works for experimental data, and an axial precision of ~63 nm can be achieved.
Databáze: arXiv