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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Luca Lanzano, Irvine, CA (US);
Michelle Digman, Irvine, CA (US);
Enrico Gratton, San Clemente, CA (US);
Luca Lanzano, Irvine, CA (US);
Michelle Digman, Irvine, CA (US);
Enrico Gratton, San Clemente, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
An optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved three dimensional images of very small and moving features in live cells and in a matter of seconds. Images of microvilli in live cultured opossum kidney cells expressing NaPi co-transporter proteins with different GFP constructs and images of cell protrusions in a collagen matrix are produced with a resolution of about 20 nm. Along cell protrusions in three dimensional cellular adhesions could be identified to the extracellular matrix.