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    • Biomedical Imaging
    • Nanotechnology

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    • 3D nanoscale imaging is limited by the axial diffraction limit, which is significantly worse than lateral resolution.
    • Conventional optical tomography struggles to achieve high resolution along the optical axis.

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    • To introduce and validate an axial super-resolution evanescent wave tomography method.
    • To enable standard evanescent wave microscopes to perform beyond surface imaging with enhanced axial resolution.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing Fourier reconstruction principles with multiple 3D fluorescence images under evanescent wave illumination.
    • Extracting super-resolution features from the incremental penetration depth of evanescent waves.
    • 1D and 3D simulations to support the theoretical framework.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated tomographic reconstruction of microtubules in HeLa cells with an axial resolution of approximately 130 nm.
    • The method achieved axial super-resolution, surpassing conventional limitations.
    • No additional optical components or sample preparation were required.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed evanescent wave tomography method effectively achieves axial super-resolution for 3D nanoscale imaging.
    • This technique enhances the capabilities of existing evanescent wave microscopes.
    • The method is compatible with other super-resolution techniques and adaptable to different electromagnetic spectrum ranges (THz, microwave).