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Label-Free Identification of Lymphocyte Subtypes Using Three-Dimensional Quantitative Phase Imaging and Machine Learning
Published on: November 19, 2018
Measurement and autocorrelation analysis of two-dimensional light-scattering patterns from living cells for
Yong-Le Pan1, Matthew J Berg, Samuel Shao-Min Zhang
1U S Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA. yongle.pan@arl.army.mil
Abstract:
We incorporate optics and an ICCD to record the two-dimensional angular optical scattering (TAOS) patterns retrieved from single aerosolized cells. We analyze these patterns by performing autocorrelations and demonstrate that we are able to retrieve cell size from the locations of the secondary maxima. Additional morphological information is contained in the autocorrelation functions and decay rate of the heights of the autocorrelation peaks. We demonstrate these techniques with C6 and Y79 cells, which are readily distinguishable. One key advantage of this methodology is that there is no requirement for antibody and fluorescent labeling molecules.
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