Three-dimensional (3D) imaging is essential for investigating cellular structure and dynamics. Traditional optical methods ...

A team has made a major breakthrough in the field of three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large-scale biological tissues. They ...

“The resolution of the standard optical microscope is basically limited by the diffraction barrier of light, which restricts the resolution to 200–300 nm for visible light,” explains Mark Schüttpelz, ...

In the 20 th century, light microscopes relied solely on focusing light in space for the separation (=resolution) of adjacent tiny features. Either they focused the illumination light as sharply ...

Optical microscopes are still second to none when it comes to analyzing biological samples. However, their low resolution, improved only in recent years in STED microscopes, continues to be a problem.

A new type of super-resolution optical microscopy takes a high-resolution image (at right) of graphite "nanoplatelets" about 100 nanometers wide. The imaging system, called saturated transient ...

The optical microscope, invented more than 400 years ago, has tended to grow larger and more complex as it has been modified to image ever-smaller objects with better resolution.

All the latest science news on optical microscopy from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and ... it takes many years of work to discover new super-resolution microscopy techniques.

Tucson-headquartered scientific camera specialist Photometrics says that thanks to a collaboration with the Netherlands-based microscopy startup Confocal.nl, laboratories are now able to buy a new ...

A key limitation of microscopes is that they can only image objects or details that are half the wavelength of the light used – so for optical microscopes, details can be seen down to about 200 ...