Super-resolution light microscopy methods either localize single molecular labels or treat the sample as a continuous object. The fundamental requirements for super-resolution in the continuum regime are spatially non-uniform illumination and a nonlinear photoresponse.
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Rainer Heintzmann is at the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK
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Mats G. L. Gustafsson is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA. rainer.heintzmann@kcl.ac.uk; gustafssonm@janelia.hhmi.org
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