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RIED
System: Reaction-luminescence super-resolution imaging.
Camera: EMCCD camera (iXon Ultra 897, Andor).
Description: RIED combines entropy-weighted correlation with deconvolution to reconstruct super-resolution ECL, CL, and BL images at approximately 100 nm resolution, without external light excitation.
RIED / ECLConventional ECL ↔ RIED reconstruction
System: Electrochemiluminescence super-resolution imaging (ECL-RIED).
Objective: Oil-immersion 100× objective (NA = 1.45, Olympus).
Camera: EMCCD camera (iXon Ultra 897, Andor).
Sample: Microtubules in a HeLa cell.
Label: α-tubulin immunostaining with Ru(bpy)32+-conjugated antibodies.
Description: Left: conventional ECL; Right: ECL-RIED, reaching 97 nm resolution.
System: Bioluminescence super-resolution imaging (BL-RIED).
Objective: Oil-immersion objectives (100×/1.42 NA or 60×/1.49 NA, Nikon).
Camera: EMCCD camera (iXon Ultra 897, Andor).
Sample: Mitochondrial outer membranes in live COS-7 cells.
Label: Mitochondrial-outer-membrane-targeted GeNL (NanoLuc–mNeonGreen BRET probe).
Description: Left: conventional BL; Right: BL-RIED. It reaches 117 nm resolution and supports continuous live-cell imaging for 41 h.
RIED / 2D ECLConventional 2D ECL ↔ RIED reconstruction
System: Two-dimensional ECL-RIED.
Objective: Oil-immersion 100× objective (NA = 1.45, Olympus).
Camera: EMCCD camera (iXon Ultra 897, Andor).
Sample: Microtubules in a HeLa cell.
Label: α-tubulin immunostaining with Ru(bpy)32+-conjugated antibodies.
Description: Left: conventional 2D ECL; Right: 2D ECL-RIED with substantially improved structural detail.
RIED / 3D ECLConventional 3D ECL ↔ RIED reconstruction
System: Three-dimensional ECL-RIED.
Objective: Oil-immersion 100× objective (NA = 1.45, Olympus).
Camera: EMCCD camera (iXon Ultra 897, Andor).
Sample: Microtubules in a HeLa cell.
Label: α-tubulin immunostaining with Ru(bpy)32+-conjugated antibodies.
Color code: Color represents axial depth, distinguishing structures at different z positions.
Description: Left: conventional 3D ECL; Right: 3D ECL-RIED, resolving approximately 116 nm laterally and 235 nm axially.
System: MTPM.
Objective: Micro-objective with NA 0.7
Sample: Brain of a transgenic mouse (in vivo).
Label:
Thy1-GFP
Description: Left: raw MTPM; Right: Sparse MTPM. Color-coded 3D volume (50~160 μm).
SPoSI
System: Label-free super-resolution microscopy (SPoSI).
Objective: Wide-field objective (NA 0.9)
Sample: Gold nanorod (20 nm x 300 nm).
Description: Left: raw wide-field (552 nm laser); Right: SPoSI.
Endoscope
System: Volumetric endoscope probe.
Objective: GRIN lens (NA 0.5).
Sample: USAF target and live worm.
Description: Left: 3D live worm; Right: tilted USAF target.
Smart palm-size optofluidic hematology analyzer
System: A smart palm-sized optofluidic hematology analyzer based on a miniature fluorescence microscope and a microfluidic platform to reduce the device weight and improve portability.
Objective: GRIN lens (NA 0.5).
Sample: Leukocyte.
Description: Tracking of the leukocytes.
System: High NA TIRF-SIM.
Objective: TIRF objective (100×/1.7 HI oil, Olympus)
Camera: sCMOS camera (Flash 4.0 V3, Hamamatsu, Japan)
Cell line: INS-1 cell.
Label:
LifeAct-EGFP.
Description: Left: TIRF; Right: MGAN-SIM.
Long-term 1h imaging, 3400 frames.
ODT
System: ODT.
Objective: Wide-field objective (100×/1.49 oil, Olympus)
Camera: sCMOS camera (Flash 4.0 V3, Hamamatsu, Japan)
Cell line: COS-7 cell.
Description: The process of cell division in hours. 0~10 μm and the plane at 7 μm is visualized on the left. From Prof. Liangyi Chen.
SIM-assisted ODT
Single channel
Merged
System: 2D-SIM assisted ODT.
Objective: Wide-field objective (100×/1.49 oil, Olympus)
Camera: sCMOS camera (Flash 4.0 V3, Hamamatsu, Japan)
Cell line: COS-7 cell.
Label:
MitoTracker Green.
Description: Left panel: ODT (left) at 5μm plane (0~6μm in total); 2D-SIM (right). Right panel: 2D-SIM (red) + ODT (gray). From Prof. Liangyi Chen.
Miniaturized light-field microscopy
System concept
System on a live-mouse
System: Miniaturized light-field microscopy.
Objective: GRIN lens (0.5 NA)
Camera: CMOS camera
Sample: Live-mouse.
Label: GCaMP6s in vivo.
Description: From Changliang Guo.