Researchers have developed a new fluorescence microscopy approach that significantly improves
image resolution by acquiring three views of a sample at the same time.
The difference is palpable: Google's new model has better
image resolution by about two orders of magnitude, the company claims.
Not exact matches
Holographic video has been held back
by requirements for ultrafine screen
resolutions and staggering data rates — a crisp, moving, holographic
image can burn through terabytes of data in a fraction of a second.
«If you wanted to have a satellite look for something, find what it needs to, and then go send a drone to have a high -
resolution image on it, the system can «tip and cue»
by itself using our software,» Paez said.
Whanger built on their findings
by examining high -
resolution photographs that uncovered new details of the
image, as well as using 3D imaging techniques.
At the press of a button the
image of the hole is beamed onto a 9 -
by -10-foot high -
resolution projection screen.
The vibrant colors show high -
resolution images of nebulae and constellations - captured
by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The mystery of how butterflies with translucent wings stay dry has been solved
by new high -
resolution images — and the trick is bounciness.
The resulting composite
images provided a new view of the sun that spanned all the way from the surface to far out in the corona:
by contrast, previous
images of such high
resolution have typically been confined to one region or another.
This high -
resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6
by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.
High -
resolution high - contrast X-ray radiography of plant seeds combined with
images taken
by microscopy.
Such use of computers to enhance the quality of low -
resolution images is familiar to fans of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case
by magnifying some small detail of a digital
image pulled from grainy surveillance footage.
Through a combination of high -
resolution cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) and a unique methodology for
image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played
by a family of end - binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.
A true - color
image of the Central Andes and surrounding landscape acquired
by the Moderate -
resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft.
This was complemented
by obtaining high -
resolution images and electron diffraction patterns of the material's atomic structure using Hokkaido University's high voltage electron microscope.
According to the atlas, which was produced
by analyzing tens of thousands of high -
resolution images of nighttime lights on Earth from the NOAA — NASA Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite, roughly one in three humans on Earth can not see the Milky Way when they look up into the night sky.
Scientific American reconstructed this rotation of Earth from
images taken
by the high -
resolution EPIC camera onboard the satellite DISCOVR.
The resulting high -
resolution images and video, released yesterday and cobbled together using data gathered
by the Voyager missions of the late 1970s and the Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, depict mountains that range up to 17 kilometers high, active volcanoes, dark lava fields, and bright plains smothered
by sulfur deposits that have rained down from plumes that spew hundreds of kilometers high.
Image made
by Super
Resolution Microscopy.
The
images chronicle the evolution of the particles» chemical composition and reaction rates at a nanoscale spatial
resolution and a minute -
by - minute time
resolution.
Hubble's sensitivity and high
resolution allow it to see faint and distant lenses that can not be detected with ground - based telescopes whose
images are blurred
by Earth's atmosphere.
FIRST HIGH -
RESOLUTION IMAGE of the South Pole clearly shows the U.S. Amundsen - Scott Station, which was established
by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1957 and has been continuously occupied ever since.
«When we were using traditional paper notebooks, we were actually losing a lot of information
by printing high -
resolution digital
images and pasting them in a notebook.
Images from MRO's High
Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera show sand dunes with linear gullies covered
by carbon - dioxide frost during the Martian winter.
To enhance the spatial
resolution of their microscope they put a single carbon monoxide molecule on the tip, a technique called non-contact AFM first used
by Gerhard Meyer and collaborators at IBM Zurich to
image molecules several years ago.
With a
resolution of 2 miles (3 kilometers) per pixel, the LORRI
image shows the tiny potato - shaped moon measures 27 miles (43 kilometers)
by 20 miles (33 kilometers).
By using thousands of
images, they reconstructed a high -
resolution cryo - electron microscopy structure of the Zika virus.
In their new study, they adapted DNA - PAINT technology to microscopes that are widespread among cell biology laboratories, called confocal microscopes, and that are used
by researchers to
image whole cells and thicker tissues at lower
resolution.
The investigators optimized the
image resolution and acquisition time to under five minutes
by adopting a 1.5 millimeter - thick scintillator, which picks up gamma rays as they are emitted from within the body, and a 1 millimeter pin - hole collimator, which acts like an aperture to narrow focus on a particular field of view.
First, the permissible level of
resolution of satellite
images which are presented as evidence should be fixed
by the ICJ.
After data processing, the echoes returned
by the structures crossed
by these waves can provide
images with unequalled spatial and temporal
resolution: 80 micrometers and a few tens of milliseconds.
«Most approaches to single - particle analysis have so far been based on trying to determine these particle orientations from the
images; however, the best
resolution achievable from these analyses is restricted
by how precisely these orientations can be determined from noisy data.»
The color
image taken July 8, 2013,
by the High
Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter catches Opportunity crossing relatively level ground called «Botany Bay» on its way to a rise called «Solander Point.»
A subsequent cruise
by JAMSTEC's RV Kaiyo 7 - 8 months after the earthquake collected additional high -
resolution reflection seismic
images in the area.
By making the sample physically larger, it can be
imaged with very high
resolution using ordinary microscopes commonly found in research labs.
By correlating the local effects of this emitted light with the position of the electron beam, spatial
images of these effects can be reconstructed with nanometer - scale
resolution.
The highly resolved STED
image, however, always has a background of low
resolution, which is due to incomplete stimulated depletion and fluorescence excitation
by the STED beam itself.
(The path of the comet across the higher -
resolution images in this video is denoted
by moving red circles.)
Whereas most of the nine spectral bands of imagery captured
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Landsat 8, launched in 2013, for example, are delivered at 30 - meter
resolution, other commercial providers of remote - sensing
images, such as Skybox Imaging and BlackBridge (formerly RapidEye), have the capability to deliver much higher
resolutions — as fine as one meter per pixel.
Investigators are still working to pin down the exact cause of Schiaparelli's crash, and will be aided
by additional details revealed in higher -
resolution images scheduled to be gathered next week
by MRO.
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software that compares
images from the high -
resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with ground panoramas taken
by the rovers to map features on the Martian surface.
This
image taken
by the High
Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on July 8, 2013, captures Opportunity traversing south (at the end of the white arrow) to new science targets and a winter haven at «Solander Point,» another portion of the Endeavour rim.
With the use of high -
resolution images and topographic data from cameras on orbiting satellites, B.T. Cardenas and colleagues from the Jackson School of Geosciences identify fluvial deposit stacking patterns and changes in sedimentation styles controlled
by a migratory coastline.
By adding a third objective lens, researchers were able to capture previously neglected fluorescence, improving
image resolution in three dimensions.
A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, compares high -
resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with surface video taken
by the Mars Rover Spirit, which is stuck in the Gusev crater.
«We reasoned that if we could simultaneously
image this neglected signal
by adding a higher numerical aperture lens that acquired the bottom view, then we could boost the lateral
resolution.»
Newer synchrotron scanners can do even better, producing extremely focused beams a trillion times brighter than the ones generated
by standard X-ray machines and yielding incredibly high -
resolution images.
Although the
images are relatively low -
resolution at just 6 meters per pixel, they reveal a bright object thought to be Schiaparelli's parachute, as well as a 15 -
by -40-meter dark patch roughly one kilometer to the north of the parachute.
Through the development of a technique called photoacoustic tomography, Wang was able to conquer this limit and advance the imaging depth
by nearly two orders of magnitude, from one millimeter to several centimeters, an improvement that could enable doctors to acquire high -
resolution images through a patient's skin using light.
Instead of approaching the problem
by creating better imaging software that helps to increase the
resolution after the fact, as most high
resolution microscopes do, Shroff and his lab developed a microscope with better lenses and mirrors so that the higher
resolution is captured in the original
image.