Fluorescent microspheres as point sources: A localization study
Fluorescent microspheres as point sources: A localization study
The localization of fluorescent microspheres is often employed for drift correction and image registration in single molecule microscopy, and is commonly carried out by fitting a point spread function to the image of the given microsphere. The mismatch between the point spread function and the image of the microsphere, however, calls into question the suitability of this localization approach. To investigate this issue, we subject both simulated and experimental microsphere image data to a maximum likelihood estimator that localizes a microsphere by fitting an Airy pattern to its image, and assess the suitability of the approach by evaluating the ability of the estimator to recover the true location of the microsphere with the best possible accuracy as determined based on the Cramér-Rao lower bound. Assessing against criteria based on the standard errors of the mean and the variance for an ideal estimator of the microsphere's location, we find that microspheres up to 100 nm in diameter can in general be localized using a fixed width Airy pattern, and that microspheres as large as 1 μm in diameter can in general be localized using a floated width Airy pattern.
Chao, Jerry
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Lee, Taiyoon
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Ward, E. Sally
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Ober, Raimund J.
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28 July 2015
Chao, Jerry
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Lee, Taiyoon
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Ward, E. Sally
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Ober, Raimund J.
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Chao, Jerry, Lee, Taiyoon, Ward, E. Sally and Ober, Raimund J.
(2015)
Fluorescent microspheres as point sources: A localization study.
PLoS ONE, 10 (7), [e0134112].
(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134112).
Abstract
The localization of fluorescent microspheres is often employed for drift correction and image registration in single molecule microscopy, and is commonly carried out by fitting a point spread function to the image of the given microsphere. The mismatch between the point spread function and the image of the microsphere, however, calls into question the suitability of this localization approach. To investigate this issue, we subject both simulated and experimental microsphere image data to a maximum likelihood estimator that localizes a microsphere by fitting an Airy pattern to its image, and assess the suitability of the approach by evaluating the ability of the estimator to recover the true location of the microsphere with the best possible accuracy as determined based on the Cramér-Rao lower bound. Assessing against criteria based on the standard errors of the mean and the variance for an ideal estimator of the microsphere's location, we find that microspheres up to 100 nm in diameter can in general be localized using a fixed width Airy pattern, and that microspheres as large as 1 μm in diameter can in general be localized using a floated width Airy pattern.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 July 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 July 2015
Published date: 28 July 2015
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/423663
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