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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by billconan on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:21PM (#13147689)
Is this volumetric data?
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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by cake93 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @04:46AM (#13150368)
Yes.

These are images taken by confocal microscopy, where you focus a laser scanning microscope on a plane and only see that. Then you move the focus plane up by a bit and take the next picture.

Super-resolution microscopy such as STORM, STED or PALM on the other hand will give you coordinates.

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