Phase-shifting interferometric holography of living cells

Dominik M. Giel; Markus Fratz; Albrecht Brandenburg

doi:10.1117/12.645952

21 February 2006 Phase-shifting interferometric holography of living cells

Dominik M. Giel, Markus Fratz, Albrecht Brandenburg

Proceedings Volume 6088, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IV; 60880E (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.645952
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We present a phase-shifting holographic set-up for the microscopic imaging of adherent cells. The superposition of an object wave field and a reference wave is recorded on a digital sensor with three reference wave phases. The reference phases are then recovered by statistical analysis of the recorded intensities. Subsequently, the object wave phase is calculated by the generalized phase shifting algorithm. After phase unwrapping and background subtraction, the phase shift introduced by the adherent cell culture is reconstructed. As the interferograms are recorded in the image plane of the microsope objective, the full lateral resolution is achieved in contrast to off-axis holography where the reconstruction requires numerical propagation for the separation of 0^th and 1^st order. Our approach uses three arbitrary unknown reference phases and poses thus minimum requirements on the mechanical and thermal stability of the set-up. We give preliminary results of images from a Vero cell line and pollen grains.

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Dominik M. Giel, Markus Fratz, and Albrecht Brandenburg "Phase-shifting interferometric holography of living cells", Proc. SPIE 6088, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IV, 60880E (21 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.645952

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