Advanced Quantitative Phase Microscopy: Techniques and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1728
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quantitative phase microscopy; optical diffraction tomography; laser interferometry; digital holography; multimodal microscopic imaging; organelle dynamics
Interests: quantitative phase imaging; computational microscopy; optical diffraction tomography; Fourier ptychography microscopy; phase retrieval
Interests: super-resolution microscopy; single-molecule localization microscopy; structured illumination microscopy; quantitative phase contrast; digital holography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is an emerging label-free imaging technology that visualizes transparent samples by recovering the phase delay of the illumination beam caused when it passes through them. During the last decade, QPM has been widely used in industrial inspection, air/gas visualization, 3D imaging/display, and the biomedical field, etc. Meanwhile, many efforts have been made to enhance the spatial resolution, imaging speed, phase accuracy, and measurement range, as well as the reconstruction of QPM in general. Notably, with the rapid development of computer science and other subjects, several new quantitative phase imaging techniques have been developed, such as wavefront sensing, shearing interference, transport of intensity equation (TIE)-based approach, beam-propagation-based methods, Fourier ptychography, and so on. Meanwhile, dozens of image processing algorithms, including machine learning and deep learning technologies, have led to breakthroughs in QPM.
Topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Quantitative phase microscopy;
- Phase retrieval;
- Ptychography/Fourier ptychography;
- Digital holographic microscopy;
- Transport of intensity;
- Computational imaging;
- Biomedical, clinical, and medical applications of QPM;
- Optical diffraction tomography;
- Deep learning and neural networks related to QPM and applications;
- Digital staining;
- Optical information acquisition.
Dr. Ying Ma
Dr. Shaohui Zhang
Dr. Sha An
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- quantitative phase imaging
- quantitative phase microscopy
- phase retrieval
- label free
- ptychography
- 3D Imaging
- 3D tomography
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