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Comparative Study
. 2012 Jul 30;20(16):17741-59.
doi: 10.1364/OE.20.017741.

Localization-based super-resolution microscopy with an sCMOS camera part II: experimental methodology for comparing sCMOS with EMCCD cameras

Fan Long  1 , Shaoqun Zeng, Zhen-Li Huang
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Comparative Study

Localization-based super-resolution microscopy with an sCMOS camera part II: experimental methodology for comparing sCMOS with EMCCD cameras

Fan Long et al. Opt Express. .

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a hot debate among industry and academic researchers that whether the newly developed scientific-grade Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) cameras could become the image sensors of choice in localization-based super-resolution microscopy. To help researchers find answers to this question, here we reported an experimental methodology for quantitatively comparing the performance of low-light cameras in single molecule detection (characterized via image SNR) and localization (via localization accuracy). We found that a newly launched sCMOS camera can present superior imaging performance than a popular Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Device (EMCCD) camera in a signal range (15-12000 photon/pixel) more than enough for typical localization-based super-resolution microscopy.

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