Abstract
This study presents a partially coherent illumination based (PCI-based) SIM apparatus for dual-modality (phase and fluorescent) microscopic imaging. The partially coherent illumination (PCI) is generated by placing a rotating diffuser on a monochromatic laser beam, which suppresses speckle noise in the dual-modality images and endows the apparatus with sound sectioning capability. With this system, label-free quantitative phase and super-resolved/sectioned fluorescent images can be obtained for the same sample. We have demonstrated the superiority of the system in phase imaging of transparent cells with high endogenous contrast and in a quantitative manner. In the meantime, we have also demonstrated fluorescent imaging of fluorescent beads, rat tail crosscut, wheat anther, and hibiscus pollen with super-resolution and optical sectioning. We envisage that the proposed method can be applied to many fields, including but not limited to biomedical, industrial, chemistry fields.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 33679-33693 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 11 Oct 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding. National Natural Science Foundation of China (62075177); Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2020JM-193, 2020JQ-324, 2021JQ-184); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB210513, JC2112, XJS210503, XJS210504); Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515110590); State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics; Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.
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