Dual-color 4Pi-confocal microscopy with 3D-resolution in the 100 nm range
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1High Resolution Optical Microscopy Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
We report the development of simultaneous two-color channel recording in 4Pi-confocal microscopy. A marked increase of spatial resolution over confocal microscopy becomes manifested in 4Pi-confocal three-dimensional (3D) data stacks of dual-labeled objects. The fundamentally improved resolution is verified both with densely labeled fluorescence beads as well as with membrane labeled fixed Escherichia coli. The synergistic combination of dual-color 4Pi-confocal recording with image restoration results in dual-color imaging with a 3D resolution in the 100 nm range.
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