Acronyms

MH, v1.2, 2021_03_11

• AFM, Atomic Force Microscopy
• APD, Avalanche Photo-Diode
• AuNP, gold NP
• CA, Clear Aperture
• CCD, Charged Coupled Device
• CLSM, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
• CM, Center of Mass
• CMOS, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
• CRB, Cramer-Rao Bound
• CRLB, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound
• DIC, Differential Interference Contrast
• dSTORM, direct STORM
• DON, DNA Origami Nanostructure
• DSOM, Dynamic Saturation Optical Microscopy
• EM, Electron Microscopy
• EM, Electro-Magnetic
• EMCCD, Electron Multiplying CCD
• FCS, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
• FDFD, Finite Difference Frequency Domain
• FDTD, Finite Difference Time Domain
• FIONA, Fluorescence Imaging with One-Nanometer Accuracy
• FLIM, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
• FOV, Field Of View
• FPALM, Fluorescence PALM
• FRAP, Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
• FRET, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
• FWHM, Full Width at Half-Maximum
• GFP, Green Fluorescent Protein
• GPU, Graphical Processing Unit
• ISM, Image Scanning Microscopy
• IR, Infrared light
• LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• LSM, Laser Scanning Microscopy
• MHT, Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
• MSD, Mean Square Displacement
• MTT, Multiple Target Tracking
• NA, Numerical Apperture
• ND, Nano-Diamand
• NV, Nitrogen-Vacancy
• NP, Nano-Particle
• NSOM, SNOM, Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
• OTF, Optical Transfer Function
• PAINT, Points Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography
• PALM, Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy
• PMT, Photo-Multiplier Tube
• PSF, Point Spread Function
• QE, Quantum Efficiency
• QED, Quantum Electrodynamics
• QM, Quantum Mechanics
• RESOLFT, Reversible, Saturable Optical Linear Fluorescence Transition microscopy
• SERS, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
• SIM, Structured Illumination Microscopy
• SMLM, Single Molecule Localization Microscopy
• SNR, Signal-to-Noise Ration
• SOFI, Super-resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging
• SPIM, Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy
• SPT, Single Particle Tracking
• SRLM, Super-Resolution Light Microscopy
• SRM, Super-Resolution Microscopy
• SSIM, Saturated SIM
• STED, Stimulated Emission Depletion
• STORM, Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy
• TIRF, Total Internal Reflectance Fluorescence
• UV, Ultraviolet light
• VIS, Visual light
• WF, Wide-Field