White-light diffraction tomography of unlabelled live cells

T Kim, R Zhou, M Mir, SD Babacan, PS Carney… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We present a technique called white-light diffraction tomography (WDT) for imaging
microscopic transparent objects such as live unlabelled cells. The approach extends …

Spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM)

Z Wang, L Millet, M Mir, H Ding, S Unarunotai… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We present spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) as a new optical microscopy
technique, capable of measuring nanoscale structures and dynamics in live cells via …

Optical measurement of cycle-dependent cell growth

M Mir, Z Wang, Z Shen, M Bednarz… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Determining the growth patterns of single cells offers answers to some of the most elusive
questions in contemporary cell biology: how cell growth is regulated and how cell size …

Tissue refractive index as marker of disease

Z Wang, K Tangella, A Balla… - Journal of biomedical …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The gold standard in histopathology relies on manual investigation of stained tissue
biopsies. A sensitive and quantitative method for in situ tissue specimen inspection is highly …

Quantitative phase imaging

M Mir, B Bhaduri, R Wang, R Zhu, G Popescu - Progress in optics, 2012 - Elsevier
Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging field aimed at studying weakly scattering
and absorbing specimens (Popescu, 2011). The main challenge in generating intrinsic …

Diffraction phase microscopy with white light

B Bhaduri, H Pham, M Mir, G Popescu - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present white light diffraction phase microscopy (wDPM) as a quantitative phase
imaging method that combines the single shot measurement benefit associated with off-axis …

[HTML][HTML] Possible existence of optical communication channels in the brain

S Kumar, K Boone, J Tuszyński, P Barclay, C Simon - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Given that many fundamental questions in neuroscience are still open, it seems pertinent to
explore whether the brain might use other physical modalities than the ones that have been …

Spatial light interference microscopy: principle and applications to biomedicine

X Chen, ME Kandel, G Popescu - Advances in optics and photonics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we review spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), a common-path, phase-
shifting interferometer, built onto a phase-contrast microscope, with white-light illumination …

Are there optical communication channels in the brain?

P Zarkeshian, S Kumar, J Tuszynski, P Barclay… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Despite great progress in neuroscience, there are still fundamental unanswered questions
about the brain, including the origin of subjective experience and consciousness. Some …

Wavefront microscopy using quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry: From bioimaging to nanophotonics

G Baffou - ACS photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Common cameras are only sensitive to the intensity of light, discarding an essential feature
of a light wave: its phase profile or, equivalently, its wavefront profile. This Review focuses …