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ArticlePhysical review letters2025

Resolving the Orientations of and Angular Separation Between a Pair of Dipole Emitters.

Yiyang Chen, Yuanxin Qiu, Matthew D Lew

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Article in Physical review letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Painting rich six-dimensional pictures using polarized fluorescence microscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Yiyang ChenWashington University in St. Louis, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Missouri 63130, USA.
Yuanxin QiuWashington University in St. Louis, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Missouri 63130, USA.
Matthew D LewWashington University in St. Louis, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Missouri 63130, USA.

Funding

Six-Dimensional Single-Molecule Nanoscopy for Elucidating the Dynamic Organization of BiomoleculesR35GM124858 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Matthew D Lew · 2017 to 2026
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124858
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We prove that it is impossible to distinguish two spatially coinciding fluorescent molecules from a single rotating molecule using polarization-sensitive imaging, even if one modulates the polarization of the illumination or the detection dipole-spread function (DSF). If the target is known to be a dipole pair, existing imaging methods perform poorly for measuring their angular separation. We propose simultaneously modulating the excitation polarization and DSF, which demonstrates robust discrimination between dipole pairs versus single molecules. Our method improves the precision of measuring centroid orientation by 50% and angular separation by two- to four-fold over existing techniques.

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PMID40131087
PMCPMC11937548

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