title: Digital in-line holography for biological applications.
abstract: Digital in-line holography with numerical reconstruction has been developed into a new tool, specifically for biological applications, that routinely achieves both lateral and depth resolution, at least at the micron level, in three-dimensional imaging. The experimental and numerical procedures have been incorporated into a program package with a very fast reconstruction algorithm that is now capable of real-time reconstruction. This capability is demonstrated for diverse objects, such as suspension of microspheres and biological samples (diatom, the head of Drosophila melanogaster), and the advantages are discussed by comparing holographic reconstructions with images taken by using conventional compound light microscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Jericho
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Meinertzhagen
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kreuzer
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000166:cytology; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology; D004867:Equipment Design; D005780:Gelatin; D006257:Head; D006696:Holography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods; D008863:Microspheres; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D005780:Gelatin