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Quasiparticle Interference (QPI) imaging is a powerful tool for the study of the low energy electronic structure of quantum materials. However, the measurement of QPI by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is restricted to surfaces and is…

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Quasiparticle interference imaging (QPI) provides a route to characterize electronic structure from real space images acquired using scanning tunneling microscopy. It emerges due to scattering of electrons at defects in the material. The…

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Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a label-free technique providing both morphology and quantitative biophysical information in biomedicine. However, applying such a powerful technique to in vivo pathological diagnosis remains challenging.…

In computational phase imaging with a microscope equipped with an array of light emitting diodes as illumination unit, conventional Fourier ptychographic microscopy achieves high resolution and wide-field reconstructions but is constrained…

We introduce the white light quantitative phase imaging unit (WQPIU) as a practical realization of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) on standard microscope platforms. The WQPIU is a compact stand-alone unit which measures sample induced…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 YoonSeok Baek , KyeoReh Lee , Jonghee Yoon , Kyoohyun Kim , YongKeun Park

Optical imaging plays a critical role in advancing our understanding of three dimensional dynamics of biological systems. Coherent imaging (CI) methods exploit spatial phase information, encoded through propagation of coherent signal light…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-24 Jeffrey J. Field , David G. Winters , Randy A. Bartels

Tissue biopsy evaluation in the clinic is in need of quantitative disease markers for diagnosis and, most importantly, prognosis. Among the new technologies, quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has demonstrated promise for histopathology…

The principles of quantum optics have yielded a plethora of ideas to surpass the classical limitations of sensitivity and resolution in optical microscopy. While some ideas have been applied in proof-of-principle experiments, imaging a…

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently developed imaging modality that uses angularly varying illumination to extend a system performance beyond the limit defined by its optical elements. The FPM technique applies a novel…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-02 Xiaoze Ou , Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang , Guoan Zheng

In this work, we present a highly efficient quantitative phase imaging (QPI) approach using programmable annular LED illumination based on traditional bright-field microscope. As a new type of coded illumination, the LED array provides a…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-14 Jiaji Li , Qian Chen , Jialin Zhang , Yan Zhang , Linpeng Lu , Chao Zuo

In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate the possibility to create an image of an opaque object using a few-photon thermal optical field. We utilize the Quadrature-Noise Shadow Imaging (QSI) technique that detects the…

Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging can map tissue scattering and absorption properties over a wide field of view, making it useful for clinical applications such as wound assessment and surgical guidance. This technique has previously…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Mason T. Chen , Melina Papadakis , Nicholas J. Durr

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is often based on recording an object-reference interference pattern and its further phase demodulation. We propose Pseudo Hilbert Phase Microscopy (PHPM) where we combine pseudo thermal light source…

Recent advances in quantitative phase imaging (QPI) and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened up the possibility of an exciting frontier. The fast and label-free nature of QPI enables the rapid generation of large-scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 YoungJu Jo , Hyungjoo Cho , Sang Yun Lee , Gunho Choi , Geon Kim , Hyun-seok Min , YongKeun Park

Purpose: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a label-free technique that provides high-contrast images of tissues and cells without the use of chemicals or dyes. Accurate semantic segmentation of cells in QPI is essential for various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zhuchen Shao , Mark A. Anastasio , Hua Li

Distributed aperture telescopes are a well-established approach for boosting resolution in astronomical imaging. However, theoretical limits on quantitative imaging precision, and the fundamentally best possible beam-combining and detection…

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The structural complexity and instability of many interference phase microscopy methods are the major obstacles toward high-precision phase measurement. In this vein, improving more efficient configurations as well as proposing new methods…

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Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) enables label-free measurement of local optical path length variations, providing critical insight into the structure and dynamics of transparent biological specimens. Here, a highly sensitive lateral…

Automation in optical microscopy is critical for enabling high-throughput imaging across a wide range of biomedical applications. Among the essential components of automated systems, robust autofocusing plays a pivotal role in maintaining…

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) recovers the exact wavefront of light from the intensity measured by a camera. Topographical maps of translucent microscopic bodies can be extracted from these quantified phase shifts. We demonstrate…