… that spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), 6 – 8 a highly sensitive quantitative-phase
imaging (QPI) method, can be used to study unlabeled sperm cells in great detail. QPI is an …

… chose spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), which is highly sensitive in both space and
… SLIM has been used recently to characterized the topography and refractometry of sperm (…

… spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) to decouple the thickness and refractive index
information of individual cells. … cells on media of two different refractive indices and using a …

… the spatial accuracy of SLIM and atomic force microscopy (AFM) by imaging an amorphous
carbon film deposited on glass. The topography … of the sperm cell yield high refractive-index v…

… light source, the thickness and the integral refractive index of … obtained by contrast interference
microscopy (phase contrast … (x,y) incorporates information about the topographic profile of …

… brightfield microscope and further sorting of cells according to … is the constant refractive index
of 1.35 [18]. This assumption … and un-stained cells using a brightfield microscope. In most of …

… very low refractive index contrast with respect to the medium like tail of the sperm cells. …
investigation thus holography provides a 3D topographic profile of the specimen. The phase …

… to generate a topographical map of the spermatozoa. … sperm cells, as reported in [5], ie,
0.50 µm. From this information, we calculated the value of the refractive index when the OPD is in …

… -magnification microscope objective, while the sperm flagella (… Microscopic dynamic
observation of intact sperm in 3D is … -dimensional refractive-index profile of the sperm head and …

… is defined as the integration of the refractive index (RI) along an optical path; the topographic
information (optical thickness) of the sample is … stain-free interferometric phase microscopy …