title: Hybrid shear force feedback/scanning quantitative phase microscopy applied to subsurface imaging.
abstract: Quantitative phase microscopy allows for the study of the surface morphology and dynamics of transparent biological specimens. Although phase data often contains coupled subsurface information, decoupling the surface and subsurface components is often very difficult or impossible. We hereby present a simple procedure which exploits simultaneous obtained quantitative phase and shear-force feedback topography data to extract subsurface sample information. Our results reveal subsurface features in fabricated samples and fish erythrocytes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA. kedward@uncc.edu
authors.forename: Kert
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edward
authors.forename: Faramarz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Farahi
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hocken