The paper proposed a simple large scale bio-sample phase detecting equipment called gravity driven phase detecting cytometer, which is based on quantitative interferometric microscopy to realize flowing red blood cells phase distribution detection. The method has advantages on high throughput phase detecting and statistical analysis with high detecting speed and in real-time. The statistical characteristics of red blood cells are useful for biological analysis and disease detection. We believe this method is shedding more light on quantitatively measurement of the phase distribution of bio-samples.
Volume Moiré Tomography (VMT) is an important technique to diagnose the flow field. In this Letter, the characteristic of temporal phase-shifting is analyzed for VMT. When the distance between two cross gratings is not on the Talbot distance, the phase-shifting factors are existed between moiré patterns of different orders. Especially, when the distance conforms to the sub-Talbot distance, the phase-shifting factors are maximum. This characteristic of temporal phaseshifting could be used for real 3-D flow fields reconstruction in the future.
Single-shot quantitative interferometric microscopy (QIM) needs a high-accuracy and rapid phase retrieval algorithm. Retrieved phase distributions are often influenced by phase aberration background caused by both imaging system and phase retrieval algorithms. Here, we propose an improved phase aberration compensation (PAC) approach in order to eliminate the phase aberrations inherent in the data. With this method, sample-free parts are identified and used to calculate the background phase, reducing phase errors induced in samples and providing high-quality phase images. We now demonstrate that QIM based on this PAC approach realizes high-quality phase imaging from a single interferogram. This is of great potential for a real-time speedy diagnosis.
Quantitative phase imaging of cells with high accuracy in a completely noninvasive manner is a challenging task. To provide a proper solution to this important need, interferometric phase microscopy is described which relies on the off-axis interferometry, confocal microscopy and high-speed image capture technology. Phase retrieval from the single interferogram is done by algorithms based on the fast Fourier transform, traditional Hilbert transform and two-step Hilbert transform, respectively. Furthermore, a phase aberrations compensation approach is applied to correct the phase distribution of the red blood cells obtained via the three methods mentioned before without the pre-known knowledge for removing the wave front curvature introduced by the microscope objectives, off-axis imaging, etc., which otherwise hinders the phase reconstruction. The improved results reveal the better inner structures of the red blood cells. The development of quantitative phase imaging technique is shedding light on their future directions and applications for basic and clinical research.
Moiré tomography is an important technique to diagnose the flow field. However, the traditional moiré deflectometry cannot meet the requirements of Volume Moiré Tomography (VMT). In this Letter, an improved moiré deflected system based on double orthogonal gratings is introduced for real 3-D reconstruction. The proposed method could obtain the first-order partial derivatives in two vertical directions of the projection in one time. Comparing with the traditional moiré deflectometry, the proposed system is more effective and easier to realize the multi-direction data acquisition.
Optical Computerized Tomography is a technique which is famous for real-time, stable and non-contact characteristics in
various flow fields' diagnosis. As a result, it shows superiorities in many domains, including the aerospace survey and
the measurement of the thermo physical parameters. Due to most of the traditional reconstruction methods of OCT are
based on 2-D Radon Transform, they are pseudo three-dimensional in essence. That is to say, the flow field is divided
into several parallel slices firstly, and then, the stack of tomogram slices is subsequently used to compute the 3-D
representation. However, all the flow fields own real three-dimensional character. Therefore, in this paper, based on the
3-D Radon Transform, the optical interferometry is studied on the model of the volume CT. Meanwhile, the sufficiency
condition of accurate reconstruction is studied. Besides, the transform reconstruction algorithm for volume OCT is also
presented and verified by simulated experiments. In a word, this study will be better to visualize and display flow fields.
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