Cell refractive index for cell biology and disease diagnosis: past, present and future

PY Liu, LK Chin, W Ser, HF Chen, CM Hsieh, CH Lee… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell refractive index is a key biophysical parameter, which has been extensively studied. It is
correlated with other cell biophysical properties including mechanical, electrical and optical …

Solving inverse scattering problems in biological samples by quantitative phase imaging

T Kim, R Zhou, LL Goddard… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative phase imaging (QPI), a method that precisely recovers the wavefront of an
electromagnetic field scattered by a transparent, weakly scattering object, is a rapidly …

Optical diffraction tomography techniques for the study of cell pathophysiology

K Kim, J Yoon, S Shin, SY Lee, SA Yang… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2016 - cyberleninka.ru
Three-dimensional imaging of biological cells is crucial for the investigation of cell biology,
providing valuable information to reveal the mechanisms behind pathophysiology of cells …

Three-dimensional label-free imaging and quantification of lipid droplets in live hepatocytes

K Kim, SE Lee, J Yoon, JH Heo, C Choi, YK Park - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Lipid droplets (LDs) are subcellular organelles with important roles in lipid storage and
metabolism and involved in various diseases including cancer, obesity, and diabetes …

Fractal propagation method enables realistic optical microscopy simulations in biological tissues

AK Glaser, Y Chen, JTC Liu - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Current simulation methods for light transport in biological media have limited efficiency and
realism when applied to three-dimensional microscopic light transport in biological tissues …

Video-rate processing in tomographic phase microscopy of biological cells using CUDA

G Dardikman, M Habaza, L Waller, NT Shaked - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We suggest a new implementation for rapid reconstruction of three-dimensional (3-D)
refractive index (RI) maps of biological cells acquired by tomographic phase microscopy …

Computational out-of-focus imaging increases the space–bandwidth product in lens-based coherent microscopy

H Wang, Z Göröcs, W Luo, Y Zhang, Y Rivenson… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The space–bandwidth product (SBP) of modern objective lenses is often significantly larger
than the pixel count of opto-electronic image sensor chips, and, therefore, much of the …

3D refractive index measurements of special optical fibers

C Yan, SJ Huang, Z Miao, Z Chang, JZ Zeng… - Optical Fiber …, 2016 - Elsevier
A digital holographic microscopic chromatography-based approach with considerably
improved accuracy, simplified configuration and performance stability is proposed to …

HoloMonitor M4: holographic imaging cytometer for real-time kinetic label-free live-cell analysis of adherent cells

M Sebesta, PJ Egelberg, A Langberg… - … phase imaging II, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Live-cell imaging enables studying dynamic cellular processes that cannot be visualized in
fixed-cell assays. An increasing number of scientists in academia and the pharmaceutical …

Accuracy of image-plane holographic tomography with filtered backprojection: random and systematic errors

AV Belashov, NV Petrov, IV Semenova - Applied optics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
This paper explores the concept of image-plane holographic tomography applied to the
measurements of laser-induced thermal gradients in an aqueous solution of a …