Abstract
We quantitatively investigate the axial imaging properties of dynamic phase-contrast microscopy, with a special focus on typical combinations of tracer particles and magnifications that are used for velocimetry analysis. We show, for the first time, that a dynamic phase-contrast microscope, which is the integration of an all-optical novelty filter in a commercially available inverted microscope, can visualize three- dimensional velocity fields with a significantly reduced optical sectioning depth. The depth of field for dynamic phase-contrast microscopy is extracted from the three-dimensional response function and compared with the respective values for incoherent bright-field illumination. These results are then used to perform a depth-resolved particle image velocimetry analysis of Hagen–Poiseuille as well as electro-osmotically actuated flows in a microchannel.
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