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NATURE METHODS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 579-584Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMETH.2919
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [INST 188/334-1 FUGG]
- International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)
- DFG Collaborative Research Center (CRC) [755, 803]
- DFG grant [KO 1674/5-1]
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) [FOR 916]
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When excited with rotating linear polarized light, differently oriented fluorescent dyes emit periodic signals peaking at different times. We show that measurement of the average orientation of fluorescent dyes attached to rigid sample structures mapped to regularly defined (50 nm)(2) image nanoareas can provide subdiffraction resolution (super resolution by polarization demodulation, SPoD). Because the polarization angle range for effective excitation of an oriented molecule is rather broad and unspecific, we narrowed this range by simultaneous irradiation with a second, de-excitation, beam possessing a polarization perpendicular to the excitation beam (excitation polarization angle narrowing, ExPAN). This shortened the periodic emission flashes, allowing better discrimination between molecules or nanoareas. Our method requires neither the generation of nanometric interference structures nor the use of switchable or blinking fluorescent probes. We applied the method to standard wide-field microscopy with camera detection and to two-photon scanning microscopy, imaging the fine structural details of neuronal spines.
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