大数值孔径光学镜约束多级衍射机理

针对基于激光照明的离轴全息显微成像系统存在散斑和寄生条纹噪声,以及基于部分相干光照明的离轴数字全息显微技术存在相干条纹对比度差的问题,本文提出了一种基于单色LED照明的衍射相位显微成像系统。该系统利用大数值孔径物镜及光栅对物光进行多级衍射,并采用4f系统和空间滤波器分离出0级和+1级信息,分别作为参考光和物光,最终两束光在CCD阵面上干涉产生离轴全息图,从而形成共光路全息成像结构。通过理论分析和计算,对实验用到的光学元器件进行选型,确保衍射光频谱信息能够分开且满足抽样条件。最后与传统激光离轴数字全息显微成像检测结果进行对比,实验结果表明,本文提出的系统能够获得较高的成像准确度和信噪比。     

像前与像后预放大与数字全息显微成像比较

随着数字全息显微技术在医学影像信息处理领域的广泛应用,本文对其影像信息系统进行了研究。基于菲涅耳衍射公式和线性系统理论,对像前及像后预放大数字全息显微成像过程进行了理论分析,推导了系统的点扩散函数,分析了系统成像的横向分辨率,并对这两种系统的成像性能进行了比较,最后利用分辨率测试板进行了实验验证。     

数字全息显微在医学影像中的发展与最新应用

随着CCD等光电成像器件和计算机技术的迅猛发展,数字全息显微技术不断发展成熟起来,以其非接触、定量、三维成像等特点广泛应用于医学影像领域。本文综述了数字全息显微技术在生物医学方面的发展;比较了数字全息显微技术与其它显微技术在生物医学成像方面的优缺点;分析总结了不同全息显微影像信息系统;论述了不同光源结构对数字全息显微成像效果的重要影响以及相应算法补偿;列举了数字全息显微在生物医学中的最新应用。     

基于光强传输方程的多模式成像

在显微成像中,对于相位的恢复和定量相位的成像,基于光强传输方程的定量相位成像是一种有效的方法。在沿光轴分布的光强中采集一系列强度图像,利用数值差分估计光强在聚焦面处的一阶轴向微分并通过求解光强传输方程直接得到相位信息。该方法不需要复杂的干涉装置和参考光束,且能够在传统的明场显微镜下实现定量相位成像。近年来,光强传输方程在国内外得到广泛研究和关注,在自适应光学、X射线衍射光学、电子显微学、光学显微成像等领域中显现出巨大的应用前景。本文提出了一种基于光强传输方程的多模式成像系统,将传统的显微镜和计算成像结合起来,赋予了传统显微镜获得定量相位的能力。采用该系统对未染色的花粉粒以及海拉细胞的有丝分裂过程进行了显微观察,验证了系统的多样性与可靠性。     

浅谈2014年诺贝尔化学奖:超高分辨率荧光显微成像

超分辨显微成像技术是近些年来发展最快、受关注度最高的光学成像技术之一。这类技术突破了光学衍射极限,将显微镜的分辨率从几百纳米提高到几十纳米,为生命科学研究提供了一个强大工具。目前主流的超分辨率显微技术主要基于点扩散函数调制和单分子定位的原理来实现。其主要贡献者也成为2014年诺贝尔化学奖的获得者。本文简要讲述超分辨显微技术的发展历程并对其发展趋势进行展望。     

基于低相干干涉的透镜厚度测量及生物影像研究进展

低相干光干涉测量技术作为重要的非接触测量方法之一,由于具有结构简单、测量速度快及分辨率高的优点,在光学系统的非接触测量及生物医学影像等前沿领域具有广阔的应用前景。本文对透镜组的光学元件中心厚度及空气间隔的非接触测量技术进行了总结,简述了基于OCT的生物医学影像方面研究现状,重点论述基于低相干光干涉法测量原理和研究进展,对比分析相关研究方法的优缺点和创新之处,并从系统结构和应用范围的角度对低相干干涉测量技术的发展趋势作了展望。     

基于散射信号的超分辨光学相减显微镜

现有的光学超分辨显微成像技术主要依赖于特殊的荧光标记物,其对于大多数非荧光样品的超分辨成像就变得无能为力。因此我们提出将光学相减显微技术应用到非荧光样品的成像当中,利用普通共聚焦光斑和面包圈型光斑分别激发样品的散射光成像,从而得到样品同一区域的两幅图像,再通过图像相减的方法提高了图像空间分辨率。不同于一般的超分辨成像方法,这种光学相减显微镜不需要特殊的样品预处理过程,同时两次成像的激发光强度可以保持在一个较低水平,避免了样品损伤的影响。随后金纳米小球和有机聚合物微丝的散射成像实验证明了光学相减显微镜可以将空间分辨率提高到215 nm (0.33λ, 1λ = 650 nm),并且通过探测散射信号得到更多的样品细节信息。     

基于光学成像技术的单颗粒电化学研究

光学显微镜技术具有高时空分辨率、高通量、高灵敏度、非接触等优点,十分适合于微观、异相界面的电子转移过程研究,因而在单颗粒电化学分析中展现出良好的应用前景.结合本课题组的研究工作,本文主要介绍了单分子荧光显微镜、表面等离激元共振显微镜、暗场显微镜及电化学发光四种光学显微技术在单纳米粒子电化学研究方面取得的最新研究进展,最后展望了光学显微镜成像技术的应用前景和挑战.     

单分子宽场光学显微成像技术

单分子宽场光学显微成像技术是单分子检测技术的一种,具有通量高、参数多样、可实时动态监测等优点。本文评述了单分子宽场光学显微成像的技术方法、标记探针、判定原则、检测参数及其在分析化学、生物物理学等领域的应用,指出单分子成像技术正在向仪器设备的实用化、简易化,测量参数的精确化、可视化,研究范围的广泛化、复杂化等方面发展。未来几年单分子成像的研究重点可能会集中在实用定量、突破衍射极限的距离测量、重要生物过程的机理探索和纳米目标物的表征等方面。     

用于制备全息光波导的光致聚合物的研究进展

全息光波导具有体积小、重量轻、成像清晰、设计灵活、可为使用者提供较大的眼动范围等诸多优势,是头戴式增强现实显示器(HMD-AR)中最实用的波导耦合技术.为提升HMD-AR系统的成像能力,扩大其视场范围,作为耦入和耦出元件的体全息光栅(VHG)须具有高的折射率调制度(Δn).光致聚合物是制造高性能透明VHG材料中最有潜力的一种记录介质.本综述介绍了HMD-AR中全息光波导的工作原理和光致聚合物VHG的制备原理,梳理了近期该领域中光致聚合物的研究进展,归纳总结了光致聚合物配方中的光引发体系、成膜树脂、记录单体和纳米粒子等添加剂以及记录介质的后处理方式对其全息光学性能的影响,以期为设计新组分、研发Δn更高的记录介质、制备性能更优的HMD-AR提供指导.     

Holographic pixel super-resolution in portable lensless on-chip microscopy using a fiber-optic array

We report a portable lensless on-chip microscope that can achieve <1 μm resolution over a wide field-of-view of ～ 24 mm(2) without the use of any mechanical scanning. This compact on-chip microscope weighs ～ 95 g and is based on partially coherent digital in-line holography. Multiple fiber-optic waveguides are butt-coupled to light emitting diodes, which are controlled by a low-cost micro-controller to sequentially illuminate the sample. The resulting lensfree holograms are then captured by a digital sensor-array and are rapidly processed using a pixel super-resolution algorithm to generate much higher resolution holographic images (both phase and amplitude) of the objects. This wide-field and high-resolution on-chip microscope, being compact and light-weight, would be important for global health problems such as diagnosis of infectious diseases in remote locations. Toward this end, we validate the performance of this field-portable microscope by imaging human malaria parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) in thin blood smears. Our results constitute the first-time that a lensfree on-chip microscope has successfully imaged malaria parasites.     

Optofluidic microscopy--a method for implementing a high resolution optical microscope on a chip

We report a novel microfluidics-based lensless imaging technique, termed optofluidic microscopy (OFM), and demonstrate Caenorhabditis elegans imaging with an OFM prototype that gives comparable resolution to a conventional microscope and a measured resolution limit of 490 +/- 40 nm.     

DIFFRACTION AND HOLOGRAPHY WITH PHOTOELECTRONS AND FLUORESCENT X-RAYS

We consider studies of the atomic and magnetic structure near surfaces by photoelectron diffraction and by the holographic inversion of both photoelectron diffraction data and diffraction data involving the emission of fluorescent x-rays. The current status of photoelectron diffraction studies of surfaces, interfaces, and other nanostructures is first briefly reviewed, and then several recent developments and proposals for future areas of application are discussed. The application of full-solid-angle diffraction data, together with simultaneous characterization by low energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy, to the epitaxial growth of oxides and metals is considered. Several new avenues that are being opened up by third-generation synchrotron radiation sources are also discussed. These include site-resolved photoelectron diffraction from surface and interface atoms, the possibility of time-resolved measurements of surface reactions with chemical-state resolution, and circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions from both non-magnetic and magnetic systems. The addition of spin to the photoelectron diffraction measurement is also considered as a method for studying short-range magnetic order, including the measurement of surface magnetic phase transitions. This spin sensitivity can be achieved through either core-level multiplet splittings or circular-polarized excitation of spin-orbit-split levels. The direct imaging of short-range atomic structure by both photoelectron holography and two distinct types of x-ray holography involving fluorescent emission is also discussed. Both photoelectron and x-ray holography have demonstrated the ability to directly determine at least approximate atomic structures in three dimensions. Photoelectron holography with spin resolution may make it possible also to study short-range magnetic order in a holographic fashion. Although much more recent in its first experimental demonstrations, x-ray fluorescence holography should permit deriving more accurate atomic images for a variety of materials, including both surface and bulk regions.     

同步辐射X射线成像技术在脑成像研究中的应用

脑疾病的诊疗、 探索高级脑功能机制和理解意识本源对脑科学研究具有重要意义. 成像技术在阐明脑科学神经系统结构和功能中发挥了重要作用. 迄今, 核磁共振成像、 光学成像和电子显微镜成像技术已为脑科学研究提供了强有力的手段, 取得了突出的进展. 同步辐射X射线显微成像技术具有高分辨率、 快成像速度和高穿透深度等优点, 是一类与已有技术互补的新型脑成像技术. 本文介绍了核磁共振波谱、 光学显微镜和电子显微镜等成像方法在脑成像领域中的应用, 重点阐述了同步辐射X射线成像的优势以及在脑结构成像和功能成像中的应用. 在此基础上, 展望了同步辐射X射线成像应用于脑科学研究的未来发展方向, 讨论了该技术在绘制人脑联接图谱中的优势及可行性.     

Application of a novel photopolymer to a holographic head‐up display

A novel photopolymer for fabrication of high‐resolution volume holograms, which primarily are used on holographic optical elements such as head‐up display (HUD), is reported. This photopolymer consists of bisphenol‐type epoxy resin and radically polymerizable aliphatic monomer with diaryliodonium salt and 3‐ketocoumarin (KCD) as a complex initiator. The chemistry of imaging formation is based on the radical polymerization of the monomer initiated by a holographic exposure, following by the cationic polymerization of epoxy resin by UV‐exposure after post‐exposure baking. The yellowish color of hologram derived from KCD, the shape of peak of reconstructed light and the blue shift of wavelength of reconstructed light, were improved in order to satisfy the specifications for the combiner of HUD. A stand type holographic HUD system as an example of automotive display attached on the dashboard of an automobile is demonstrated. The display gives a high contrast image, and the combiner has good durability. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mapping nanoparticles injected into a biological tissue using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

We describe a setup for LIBS mapping of nanoparticles and trace metallic elements in biological organ as well as the followed experimental procedure. Mapping was performed for metallic elements such as Gd, Si, Ca and Fe, with a resolution of 100 μm on kidney slices sampled from a mouse 24 h after intravenous injection of a solution of gadolinium-based nanoparticles. An approach for quantifying Gd in the tissue is also presented with a good agreement with measurement performed by ICP-OES. We demonstrate that LIBS offers a simple and robust method to study the distribution of gadolinium-based nanoparticles in biological samples, without any labeling of the nanoparticles. The used bench-top instrumentation is fully compatible with the standard optical microscopy, which shows its large potential use in Biology and Medicine as a tool for complementary observation of trace metallic elements with respect to the classical optical observations which are generally based on the responses of biomolecules or cells.     

Application of digital holographic microscopy to investigate the sedimentation of intact red blood cells and their interaction with artificial surfaces

Red blood cells are able to undergo shape change from the "normal" discocyte to either echinocytes or stomatocytes depending on a large variety of membrane and cytoplasmic parameters. Such shape changes can be relatively fast (within seconds) during the sedimentation of the cells in suspension or after the cells are getting in contact with artificial surfaces. High resolution digital holographic microscopy has been applied to study these processes. This method represents a new set-up allowing a contact-less and marker-free quantitative phase-contrast imaging of living cells under conventional laboratory conditions. With the applied technique we were able to detect and analyse fast shape changes of red blood cells.