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Quantitative Optical Microscopy: Measurement of Cellular Biophysical Features with a Standard Optical Microscope
Published on: April 7, 2014
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On-chip quantitative phase microscopy without support constraint
Sibi Chakravarthy Shanmugavel1, Shwetadwip Chowdhury1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
Biomedical Optics (Washington, D.C.)
|December 22, 2025
Abstract:
We present a novel imaging system that combines an on-chip imaging sensor with a computational phase-retrieval framework that does not utilize any support constraint. This system represents a cost-effective and straightforward strategy for phase-imaging over large fields-of-view and with off-the-shelf components.
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