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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Microscopy
    • Image Reconstruction

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    • Conventional microscopy is limited by diffraction.
    • Quantitative super-resolution imaging is crucial for detailed analysis.
    • Existing methods often depend on illumination or sample properties.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel quantitative super-resolution microscopy technique.
    • To overcome limitations of existing super-resolution methods.
    • To enable thickness-independent super-resolution imaging.

    Main Methods:

    • Introduced ptychographic structured modulation (PSM) using a diffuser.
    • Employed ptychographic phase retrieval to recover object wavefront and diffuser profile.
    • Propagated recovered wavefront for super-resolution imaging.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved a 4.5-fold resolution gain beyond the diffraction limit.
    • Demonstrated resolution enhancement with as few as ~30 images.
    • Validated the technique on various samples, including thick specimens.

    Conclusions:

    • PSM offers a quantitative super-resolution strategy for coherent imaging modalities.
    • The method is independent of sample thickness, simplifying reconstruction.
    • This technique has potential applications in light, X-ray, and electron microscopy.