Upsampled PSF enables high accuracy 3D superresolution imaging with sparse sampling rate

Jianwei Chen; Wei Shi; Jianzheng Feng; Jianlin Wang; Sheng Liu; Yiming Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.547778

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 1485(2025)

Upsampled PSF enables high accuracy 3D superresolution imaging with sparse sampling rate

Jianwei Chen^1,2, Wei Shi², Jianzheng Feng², Jianlin Wang², Sheng Liu³, and Yiming Li^2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

³Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA

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Paper Information

Category: Imaging Systems, Microscopy, and Displays

Received: Nov. 14, 2024

Accepted: Mar. 5, 2025

Published Online: May. 15, 2025

The Author Email: Yiming Li (liym2019@sustech.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.547778

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.547778

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