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Achieving nanoscale precision using neuromorphic localization microscopy

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Rohit Mangalwedhekar
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Nivedita Singh
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Chetan Singh Thakur
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Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
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Mini Jose
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Deepak Nair *
DOI:10.1038/s41565-022-01291-1delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Neuromorphic cameras are a new class of dynamic-vision-inspired sensors that encode the rate of change of intensity as events. They can asynchronously record intensity changes as spikes, independent of the other pixels in the receptive field, resulting in sparse measurements. This recording of such sparse events makes them ideal for imaging dynamic processes, such as the stochastic emission of isolated single molecules. Here we show the application of neuromorphic detection to localize nanoscale fluorescent objects below the diffraction limit, with a precision below 20 nm. We demonstrate a combination of neuromorphic detection with segmentation and deep learning approaches to localize and track fluorescent particles below 50 nm with millisecond temporal resolution. Furthermore, we show that combining information from events resulting from the rate of change of intensities improves the classical limit of centroid estimation of single fluorescent objects by nearly a factor of two. Additionally, we validate that using post-processed data from the neuromorphic detector at defined windows of temporal integration allows a better evaluation of the fractalized diffusion of single particle trajectories. Our observations and analysis is useful for event sensing by nonlinear neuromorphic devices to ameliorate real-time particle localization approaches at the nanoscale. A neuromorphic camera can localize single fluorescent particles to below 20 nm resolution and evaluate the diffusion trajectory with millisecond temporal precision.
Keywords:
SINGLE
MOLECULES
SPECTROSCOPY
ELECTRONICS
TRACKING

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Nature Nanotechnology cover
Nature Nanotechnology
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indian institute of science (iisc) - bangalore
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