Carl Zeiss and the University of California, San Francisco, agree on marketing rights for superresolution microscopy techniques
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of “superresolution”, a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution.
The technique called Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) was developed by scientists Mats G.L. Gustafsson, John W. Sedat and David A. Agard at the University of San Francisco (UCSF). The technology overcomes the classical diffraction limit to microscopic resolution by combining a special illumination pattern with state-of-the-art computational image analysis. Compared to a conventional microscope, the resulting superresolution images have up to double the resolution in all three spatial directions.
The agreement grants Carl Zeiss the right to integrate the SIM technique into its microscope systems. With the ELYRA S.1 system, the supperresolution SIM technology will be available on standard microscopes for the first time.
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