Optofluidic Tomography on a Chip

Abstract

Using lensfree holography we demonstrate optofluidic tomography on a chip. A partially coherent light source is utilized to illuminate the objects flowing within a microfluidic channel placed directly on a digital sensor array. The light source is rotated to record lensfree holograms of the objects at different viewing directions. By capturing multiple frames at each illumination angle, pixel super-resolution techniques are utilized to reconstruct high-resolution transmission images at each angle. Tomograms of flowing objects are then computed through filtered back-projection of these reconstructed lensfree images, thereby enabling optical sectioning on-a-chip. The proof-of-concept is demonstrated by lensfree tomographic imaging of C. elegans.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Apr 18, 2011
Source ID
10.1063/1.3548564

Entities

People

  • Aydoğan Özcan
  • Hongying Zhu
  • Serhan O. Isikman
  • Waheb Bishara

Organizations

  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of California

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology