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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Optics
    • Microscopy
    • Quantitative Phase Imaging

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    • Simultaneous reconstruction of quantitative phase and birefringence is challenging.
    • Existing multimodal imaging methods suffer from limited temporal resolution due to multi-angle illumination or optical path switching.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a single-shot dual-modality microscopy system for synchronous quantitative phase and birefringence parameter extraction.
    • To overcome the temporal resolution limitations of current multimodal imaging techniques.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a single-shot dual-modality microscopy system utilizing circularly polarized illumination and color-multiplexed differential phase contrast (cDPC).
    • Employed illumination encoded with color and polarization, coupled with a reconstruction algorithm, to extract phase and birefringence from a single intensity image.

    Main Results:

    • Verified high accuracy in phase quantification and birefringence reconstruction through imaging experiments.
    • Demonstrated video-rate dual-modality imaging, achieving 4 times the speed of previous methods.
    • Successfully imaged phase targets, crystals, blood cells, and live paramecia.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed system enables synchronous extraction of quantitative phase and birefringence, eliminating temporal misalignment and motion artifacts.
    • Offers a powerful tool for dynamic live-cell observation, pathological crystal identification, and label-free biomedical imaging.
    • Significantly improves imaging speed for advanced microscopy applications.