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ArticleNature communications2017

Pointwise error estimates in localization microscopy.

Martin Lindén, Vladimir Ćurić, Elias Amselem, Johan Elf

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Martin LindénDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
Vladimir ĆurićDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
Elias AmselemDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
Johan ElfDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5522-1810

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Abstract

Pointwise localization of individual fluorophores is a critical step in super-resolution localization microscopy and single particle tracking. Although the methods are limited by the localization errors of individual fluorophores, the pointwise localization precision has so far been estimated using theoretical best case approximations that disregard, for example, motion blur, defocus effects and variations in fluorescence intensity. Here, we show that pointwise localization precision can be accurately estimated directly from imaging data using the Bayesian posterior density constrained by simple microscope properties. We further demonstrate that the estimated localization precision can be used to improve downstream quantitative analysis, such as estimation of diffusion constants and detection of changes in molecular motion patterns. Finally, the quality of actual point localizations in live cell super-resolution microscopy can be improved beyond the information theoretic lower bound for localization errors in individual images, by modelling the movement of fluorophores and accounting for their pointwise localization uncertainty.

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PMCPMC5418599

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