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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 28, Issue 18, Pages 25969-25988Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.401374
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- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ((Dynamic Interactions at Biological Membranes), Research and Training Group 1962)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy is an emerging label-free technique optimized for the sensitive detection of nano-matter. Previous iSCAT studies have approximated the point spread function in iSCAT by a Gaussian intensity distribution. However, recent efforts to track the mobility of nanoparticles in challenging speckle environments and over extended axial ranges has necessitated a quantitative description of the interferometric point spread function (iPSF). We present a robust vectorial diffraction model for the iPSF in tandem with experimental measurements and rigorous FDTD simulations. We examine the iPSF under various imaging scenarios to understand how aberrations due to the experimental configuration encode information about the nanoparticle. We show that the lateral shape of the iPSF can be used to achieve nanometric three-dimensional localization over an extended axial range on the order of 10 mu m either by means of a fit to an analytical model or calibration-free unsupervised machine learning. Our results have immediate implications for three-dimensional single particle tracking in complex scattering media. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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