Transport-of-intensity approach to differential interference contrast (TI-DIC) microscopy for quantitative phase imaging
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp. 447-449 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.000447
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Abstract
Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy is an inherently qualitative phase-imaging technique. What is obtained is an image with mixed phase-gradient and amplitude information rather than a true linear mapping of actual optical path length (OPL) differences. Here we investigate an approach that combines the transport-of-intensity equation (TIE) with DIC microscopy, thus improving direct visual observation. There is little hardware modification and the computation is noniterative. Numerically solving for the propagation of light in a series of through-focus DIC images allows linear phase information in a single slice to be completely determined and restored from DIC intensity values.
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OCIS Codes
(100.3010) Image processing : Image reconstruction techniques
(100.5070) Image processing : Phase retrieval
(180.0180) Microscopy : Microscopy
ToC Category:
Microscopy
History
Original Manuscript: October 27, 2009
Revised Manuscript: December 16, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: December 20, 2009
Published: January 29, 2010
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Citation
Shan Shan Kou, Laura Waller, George Barbastathis, and Colin J. R. Sheppard, "Transport-of-intensity approach to differential interference contrast (TI-DIC) microscopy for quantitative phase imaging," Opt. Lett. 35, 447-449 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-3-447
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