PMID- 24974031 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150213 LR - 20140630 IS - 0091-679X (Print) IS - 0091-679X (Linking) VI - 123 DP - 2014 TI - Nanoscale cellular imaging with scanning angle interference microscopy. PG - 235-52 LID - B978-0-12-420138-5.00013-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00013-6 [doi] AB - Fluorescence microscopy is among the most widely utilized tools in cell and molecular biology due to its ability to noninvasively obtain time-resolved images of live cells with molecule-specific contrast. In this chapter, we describe a simple high-resolution technique, scanning angle interference microscopy (SAIM), for the imaging and localization of fluorescent molecules with nanometer precision along the optical axis. In SAIM, samples above a reflective surface are sequentially scanned with an excitation laser at varying angles of incidence. Interference patterns generated between the incident and reflected lights result in an emission intensity that depends on the height of a fluorophore above the silicon surface and the angle of the incident radiation. The measured fluorescence intensities are then fit to an optical model to localize the labeled molecules along the z-axis with 5-10 nm precision and diffraction-limited lateral resolution. SAIM is easily implemented on widely available commercial total internal reflection fluorescence microscopes, offering potential for widespread use in cell biology. Here, we describe the setup of SAIM and its application for imaging cellular structures near (<1 mum) the sample substrate. CI - (c) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - DuFort, Christopher AU - DuFort C AD - Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. FAU - Paszek, Matthew AU - Paszek M AD - School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York, USA. LA - eng GR - U54CA143836-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Cell Biol JT - Methods in cell biology JID - 0373334 RN - 0 (Fluorescent Dyes) SB - IM MH - Cell Line MH - Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry MH - Focal Adhesions/ultrastructure MH - Humans MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence/methods MH - Microscopy, Interference/methods MH - Nanotechnology MH - Single-Cell Analysis/*methods MH - Staining and Labeling OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cytoskeleton OT - Dynamic OT - Focal adhesion OT - Interference OT - Membrane OT - Microscopy OT - Nanoscale OT - Superresolution EDAT- 2014/06/30 06:00 MHDA- 2015/02/14 06:00 CRDT- 2014/06/30 06:00 PHST- 2014/06/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/06/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/02/14 06:00 [medline] AID - B978-0-12-420138-5.00013-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00013-6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Cell Biol. 2014;123:235-52. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00013-6.