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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2013 Oct 10;13(11):10.1021/nl4026665. doi: 10.1021/nl4026665

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Three-dimensional images of simulated movie of quantum dots with a pattern of a 3D spiral coil using QDB3, in the absence of photon noise. (a) (b) The 3D positions of the quantum dots (with z positions highlighted by color), obtained by QDB3, are shown on top of the corresponding epi-fluorescence images. (c) Comparison between the 3D super-resolution images of quantum dots (blue stars) with their actual positions (green circles) shows that they overlap very well. (d) Deviations of the detected locations of quantum dots from their actual positions, δ = |rd − ra|, are small (≤ 10 nm). The average deviation for this specific example is ~ 4.0 nm. Note that, although photon noises are not present, the deviation is not zero presumably due to fitting errors.