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Super-resolution for confocal scanning fluorescence microscopy by rotating line-shape point spread function of super-oscillation technique

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In this paper, we introduce the super-oscillation technique with the binary phase mask to obtain the line-shape point spread function which produces a super-resolution image in confocal scanning fluorescence microscopy. By rotating the binary phase mask for the four different angles, the line-shape point spread function spins the corresponding angles. From obtained dataset, the Richardson–Lucy deconvolution algorithm is used to acquire the super-resolution image. The imaging results demonstrated the ability of the proposed method to improve the spatial resolution in the confocal scanning fluorescence microscopy.

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The line-shape binary phase mask and the super-oscillation point spread function

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Van Nhu, L. Super-resolution for confocal scanning fluorescence microscopy by rotating line-shape point spread function of super-oscillation technique. Eur. Phys. J. D 77, 77 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00661-1

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