Abstract
A new approach for determining the sizes of individual, small fluorescent objects with diameters considerably below the optical resolution limit is described in which spatially modulated illumination (SMI) microscopy and 360-647-nm excitation wavelengths are used. The results of SMI virtual microscopy computer simulations indicate that, in this wavelength range, reliable measurements of sizes as small as approximately 20 nm are feasible if the low numbers of fluorescence photons that are usually detected from such small objects are taken into account. This method is based on the well-known fact that the modulation of the diffraction image in a SMI microscope is disturbed by the size of the object. Using appropriately calculated calibration functions, one can use this disturbance of the modulation to determine the size of the original object.
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