Fast pixel shifting phase unwrapping algorithm in quantitative interferometric microscopy

Mingfei Xu; Yanke Shan; Keding Yan; Liang Xue; Shouyu Wang; Fei Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2070969

18 November 2014 Fast pixel shifting phase unwrapping algorithm in quantitative interferometric microscopy

Mingfei Xu, Yanke Shan, Keding Yan, Liang Xue, Shouyu Wang, Fei Liu

Proceedings Volume 9268, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics VI; 92681F (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070969
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

Quantitative interferometric microscopy is an important method for observing biological samples such as cells and tissues. In order to obtain continuous phase distribution of the sample from the interferogram, phase extracting and phase unwrapping are both needed in quantitative interferometric microscopy. Phase extracting includes fast Fourier transform method and Hilbert transform method, etc., almost all of them are rapid methods. However, traditional unwrapping methods such as least squares algorithm, minimum network flow method, etc. are time-consuming to locate the phase discontinuities which lead to low processing efficiency. Other proposed high-speed phase unwrapping methods always need at least two interferograms to recover final phase distributions which cannot realize real time processing. Therefore, high-speed phase unwrapping algorithm for single interferogram is required to improve the calculation efficiency. Here, we propose a fast phase unwrapping algorithm to realize high-speed quantitative interferometric microscopy, by shifting mod 2π wrapped phase map for one pixel, then multiplying the original phase map and the shifted one, then the phase discontinuities location can be easily determined. Both numerical simulation and experiments confirm that the algorithm features fast, precise and reliable.

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Mingfei Xu, Yanke Shan, Keding Yan, Liang Xue, Shouyu Wang, and Fei Liu "Fast pixel shifting phase unwrapping algorithm in quantitative interferometric microscopy", Proc. SPIE 9268, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics VI, 92681F (18 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070969

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Phase shifts

Microscopy

Interferometry

Phase retrieval

Signal to noise ratio

Microscopes

Refractive index

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