The FOM2010 conference wishes to gratefully acknowledge sponsorship from the following organisations: Main sponsors Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH Peking University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Supporting organisations University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB) Exhibitors Andor Technology Bitplane AG Chroma Technology Corp Coherent, Inc. Beijing Eastern-Dataphy Instruments Co. China Daheng Group, Inc. ETSC Technologies Co Eastwin LifeSciences Fianium Ltd Gatan, Inc. JF-Optical JPK Instruments Leica Microsystems GmbH Lucid, Inc. MediaCybernetics, Inc. Menlo Systems GmbH NBL Imaging System Ltd. Nikon Corporation NKT Photonics Okolab Olympus Omega Optical PerkinElmer Point Source Till Photonics GMBH Tokai Hit Co., Ltd. Spectra Physics Universal (HK) Technology Co. TOPTICA Photonics Inc. Veeco Media partner G.I.T. Imaging & Microscopy Photonics Media Microimage Opticsjournal.net