Journal
OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 14, Pages 15699-15712Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.015699
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [TEC2014-57394-P]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Crucial benefits provided by partially coherent light microscopy such as improved spatial resolution, optical sectioning and speckle-noise suppression are exploited here to achieve 3D quantitative imaging: reconstruction of the object refractive index (RI). We present a partially coherent optical diffraction tomography technique (PC-ODT) that can be easily implemented in commercially available bright-field microscopes. We show that the high numerical apertures of the objective and condenser lenses, together with optical refocusing, are main issues for achieving fast and successful 3D RI reconstruction of weak objects. In particular, the optical refocusing is performed by a high-speed focus tunable lens mounted in front of the digital camera enabling compatibility with commercial microscopes. The technique is experimentally demonstrated on different examples: diatom cells (biosilica shells), polystyrene micro-spheres and blood cells. The results confirm the straightforward 3D-RI reconstruction of the samples providing valuable quantitative information for their analysis. Thus, the PC-ODT can be considered as an efficient and affordable alternative to coherent ODT which requires specially designed holographic microscopes. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available