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Fluorescence Imaging with One-nanometer Accuracy (FIONA)
Published on: September 26, 2014
Direct object resolution by image subtraction: a new molecular ruler for nanometric measurements on complexed
Rémi L Boulineau1, Mark A Osborne
1Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9QJ, UK.
Abstract:
A technique for measuring distances between two or more fluorophores spaced in the 10-100 nm range is described. We identify a linear correlation between the intensity-amplitude in the difference-image of single molecules undergoing fluorescence fluctuations and their separation. The transform is used to map distances between coupled fluorophores.

