A cellular-level study of the pathophysiology is crucial for understanding the mechanisms
behind human diseases. Recent advances in quantitative phase imaging (QPI) techniques …

Red blood cells (RBCs) exhibit a unique deformability, which enables them to change shape
reversibly in response to an external force. The deformability of RBCs allows them to flow in …

The utilizations of microfluidic chips for single RBC (red blood cell) studies have attracted
great interests in recent years to filter, trap, analyze, and release single erythrocytes for …

Human red blood cells (RBCs) or erythrocytes have remarkable deformability. Upon external
forces, RBCs undergo large mechanical deformation without rupture, and they restore to …

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 …

A simple and practical method to measure three-dimensional (3-D) refractive index (RI)
distributions of biological cells is presented. A common-path self-reference interferometry …

Eustachian tube dysfunction can cause fluid to collect within the middle ear cavity and form a
middle ear effusion (MEE). MEEs can persist for weeks or months and cause hearing loss as …

Erythrocytes must undergo severe deformation to pass through narrow capillaries and
submicronic splenic slits for several hundred thousand times in their normal lifespan …

We demonstrate an acoustic device to mechanically probe a population of red blood cells at
the single cell level. The device operates by exciting a surface acoustic wave in a …

In this review, we summarize how the new concept of digital optics applied to the field of
holographic microscopy has allowed the development of a reliable and flexible digital …