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Faster and more versatile tools for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

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Two methods for estimating fluorophore positions provide useful new options to researchers performing either single-particle tracking or super-resolution imaging.

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Figure 1: Either compressed sensing or radial symmetry can be used to reconstruct a nanoscale map of the fluorophores in a labeled sample.

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Small, A. Faster and more versatile tools for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Nat Methods 9, 655–656 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2079

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