Mikael P. Backlund

1.4k total citations
17 papers, 993 citations indexed

About

Mikael P. Backlund is a scholar working on Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikael P. Backlund has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 993 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Biophysics, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mikael P. Backlund's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (10 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (6 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Mikael P. Backlund is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (10 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (6 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Mikael P. Backlund collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Israel. Mikael P. Backlund's co-authors include W. E. Moerner, Matthew D. Lew, Adam S. Backer, Steffen J. Sahl, Ginni Grover, Rafael Piestun, Stella Stylianidou, Andrew J. Spakowitz, Paul A. Wiggins and Anurag Agrawal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Mikael P. Backlund

14 papers receiving 959 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mikael P. Backlund United States 13 571 377 297 248 236 17 993
Ryan McGorty United States 19 369 0.6× 409 1.1× 317 1.1× 311 1.3× 92 0.4× 46 1.3k
Nicholas A. Moringo United States 10 240 0.4× 195 0.5× 234 0.8× 96 0.4× 49 0.2× 13 567
Alexandros Pertsinidis United States 14 293 0.5× 182 0.5× 445 1.5× 204 0.8× 141 0.6× 19 987
Kim I. Mortensen Denmark 12 561 1.0× 376 1.0× 328 1.1× 179 0.7× 287 1.2× 22 978
Martin Lindén Sweden 16 212 0.4× 87 0.2× 619 2.1× 105 0.4× 57 0.2× 24 823
Majid Badieirostami Iran 9 356 0.6× 283 0.8× 154 0.5× 130 0.5× 112 0.5× 31 611
Daniel Midtvedt Sweden 17 141 0.2× 255 0.7× 342 1.2× 285 1.1× 14 0.1× 32 1.0k
Albert F. Lawrence United States 14 95 0.2× 110 0.3× 310 1.0× 191 0.8× 185 0.8× 39 910
Maia Brunstein France 13 144 0.3× 204 0.5× 128 0.4× 145 0.6× 16 0.1× 32 571
Peng Gao China 29 748 1.3× 887 2.4× 256 0.9× 1.7k 6.9× 124 0.5× 139 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mikael P. Backlund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikael P. Backlund

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Das, Anish Kumar, et al.. (2025). Direct Observation of Three Chiral Conformers of an Atomically Precise Metal Nanoparticle. Nano Letters. 25(18). 7491–7498.
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Backlund, Mikael P., et al.. (2022). Quantum limits to resolution and discrimination of spontaneous emission lifetimes. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Yoav Shechtman, & Ronald L. Walsworth. (2018). Fundamental Precision Bounds for Three-Dimensional Optical Localization Microscopy with Poisson Statistics. Physical Review Letters. 121(2). 23904–23904. 43 indexed citations
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Stylianidou, Stella, et al.. (2017). Cytoplasmic RNA-Protein Particles Exhibit Non-Gaussian Subdiffusive Behavior. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 532–542. 148 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Pauli Kehayias, & Ronald L. Walsworth. (2017). Diamond-Based Magnetic Imaging with Fourier Optical Processing. Physical Review Applied. 8(5). 16 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Amir Arbabi, Petar N. Petrov, et al.. (2016). Removing orientation-induced localization biases in single-molecule microscopy using a broadband metasurface mask. Nature Photonics. 10(7). 459–462. 93 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., et al.. (2015). Chromosomal locus tracking with proper accounting of static and dynamic errors. Physical Review E. 91(6). 62716–62716. 67 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P. & W. E. Moerner. (2015). Motion of chromosomal loci and the mean-squared displacement of a fractional Brownian motion in the presence of static and dynamic errors. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9331. 933106–933106.
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Backlund, Mikael P., et al.. (2014). Correlations of three-dimensional motion of chromosomal loci in yeast revealed by the double-helix point spread function microscope. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(22). 3619–3629. 53 indexed citations
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Backer, Adam S., Mikael P. Backlund, Lexy von Diezmann, Steffen J. Sahl, & W. E. Moerner. (2014). A bisected pupil for studying single-molecule orientational dynamics and its application to three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 104(19). 193701–193701. 53 indexed citations
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Backer, Adam S., Mikael P. Backlund, Matthew D. Lew, & W. E. Moerner. (2013). Single-molecule orientation measurements with a quadrated pupil. Optics Letters. 38(9). 1521–1521. 50 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Matthew D. Lew, Adam S. Backer, et al.. (2013). The double-helix point spread function enables precise and accurate measurement of 3D single-molecule localization and orientation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8590. 85900L–85900L. 27 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Matthew D. Lew, Adam S. Backer, Steffen J. Sahl, & W. E. Moerner. (2013). The Role of Molecular Dipole Orientation in Single‐Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy and Implications for Super‐Resolution Imaging. ChemPhysChem. 15(4). 587–599. 107 indexed citations
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Lew, Matthew D., Mikael P. Backlund, & W. E. Moerner. (2013). Rotational Mobility of Single Molecules Affects Localization Accuracy in Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy. Nano Letters. 13(9). 3967–3972. 88 indexed citations
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Gahlmann, Andreas, Jerod L. Ptacin, Ginni Grover, et al.. (2013). Quantitative Multicolor Subdiffraction Imaging of Bacterial Protein Ultrastructures in Three Dimensions. Nano Letters. 13(3). 987–993. 89 indexed citations
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Backlund, Mikael P., Matthew D. Lew, Adam S. Backer, et al.. (2012). Simultaneous, accurate measurement of the 3D position and orientation of single molecules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(47). 19087–19092. 155 indexed citations

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