Three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging of blood coagulation structures by optical projection tomography in flow
Hideki Funamizu1, Yoshihisa Aizu1
1Division of Production Systems Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan.
Abstract:
Blood coagulation is an important role in the hemostasis process. In the observation using microscopies, an aggregation structure of red blood cells indicates the degree of blood coagulation. Recently, it has been proposed that digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a powerful tool for biomedical cell imaging on the basis of quantitative phase information. DHM has the advantage in that the real-time and three-dimensional (3-D) quantitative phase imaging can be realized in the wide field of view, which means that the 3-D morphological parameters of biological cells without a staining process are obtained in real time. We report the complete 3-D quantitative phase imaging of blood coagulation structures by optical projection tomography in a flow cytometry using DHM.
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