Issue 10, 2006
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Lab on a Chip

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

Xin Heng,a   David Erickson,†a   L. Ryan Baugh,b   Zahid Yaqoob,a   Paul W. Sternberg,b   Demetri Psaltisa  and  Changhuei Yanga  

a Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
E-mail: xin@caltech.edu
Fax: +1 (626)3958475

b Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Abstract

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B604676B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Mar 2006
Accepted
26 Jul 2006
First published
04 Aug 2006

Lab Chip, 2006,6, 1274-1276

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

X. Heng, D. Erickson, L. R. Baugh, Z. Yaqoob, P. W. Sternberg, D. Psaltis and C. Yang, Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 1274 DOI: 10.1039/B604676B

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