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Super-resolution for a 3D world

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Technological developments are pushing the emerging super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques into the world of three-dimensional imaging.

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Figure 1: Two variations on 3D super-resolution imaging.

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  1. Joshua W. Shaevitz is in the Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. shaevitz@princeton.edu,

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