Super-resolution video microscopy of live cells by structured illumination
Open Access
- 26 April 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Methods
- Vol. 6 (5), 339-342
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1324
Abstract
The use of a spatial light modulator for illuminating the sample in structured-illumination microscopy (SIM) increases imaging speed by three orders of magnitude. The resulting 100-nm resolution and 11-Hz frame rate allowed video imaging of tubulin polymerization and depolymerization as well as kinesin movement on microtubules. Structured-illumination microscopy can double the resolution of the widefield fluorescence microscope but has previously been too slow for dynamic live imaging. Here we demonstrate a high-speed structured-illumination microscope that is capable of 100-nm resolution at frame rates up to 11 Hz for several hundred time points. We demonstrate the microscope by video imaging of tubulin and kinesin dynamics in living Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells in the total internal reflection mode.Keywords
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