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Imaging volumes as thick as whole cells at three-dimensional (3D) super-resolution is required to reveal unknown features of cellular organization. We report a light microscope that generates images with translationally invariant 30 × 30 × 75nm resolution over a depth of several micrometers. This method, named biplane (BP) FPALM, combines a double-plane detection scheme with fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM) enabling 3D sub-diffraction resolution without compromising speed or sensitivity.
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We thank L. Rocco Carpenter for purification and antibody-conjugation of the caged fluorescein, Th. Tripp for machining services, E. Burns and B. Knowles for valuable comments on the manuscript and J. Spatz for support. This work was supported by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K25-65459), the US National Cancer Institute (P30 CA034196), the US National Science Foundation (CHE-0722759 and EPS-0132384), the W.M. Keck Foundation, and start-up funds from The Jackson Laboratory and the University of Maine.
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Juette, M., Gould, T., Lessard, M. et al. Three-dimensional sub–100 nm resolution fluorescence microscopy of thick samples. Nat Methods 5, 527–529 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1211
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