Table 1.

Top: Single-molecule fluorescence-based super-resolution imaging and tracking techniques in order of publication. Bottom: Other optical microscopy methods that have been used in live cells and that are discussed in the text.

Method	Full Name	Reference
FIONA	Fluorescence Imaging with One-Nanometer Accuracy	[16]
SHRImP	Single-molecule High-Resolution Imaging with Photobleaching	[20]
NALMS	Nanometer-Localized Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy	[21]
SHREC	Single-molecule High-Resolution Colocalization	[22]
ICA	Superresolution by Localization of Quantum Dots Using Blinking Statistics	[23]
PALM	Photoactivated Localization Microscopy	[12]
STORM	Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy	[14]
FPALM	Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy	[13]
PAINT	Point Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography	[24]
PALMIRA	PALM with Independently Running Acquisition	[25]
dSTORM	Direct STORM	[26]
uPAINT	Universal PAINT	[27]
CALM	Complementation Activated Localization Microscopy	[28]
BALM	Binding-Activated Localization Microscopy	[29]
SPRAIPAINT	Superresolution by Power-Dependent Active Intermittency PAINT	[30]
BaLM	Bleaching/blinking assisted Localization Microscopy	[31]
SMACM	Single-Molecule Active-Control Microscopy	[32]
TALM	Tracking and Localization Microscopy	[33]
FRET	Förster Resonance Energy Transfer	[7]
FCS	Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy	[34]
FRAP	Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching	[35]
STED	Stimulated Emission Depletion	[17]
(S)SIM	Saturated Structured-Illumination Microscopy	[18]