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

Xin Heng, David Erickson, L. Ryan Baugh, Zahid Yaqoob, Paul W. Sternberg, Demetri Psaltis, Changhuei Yang

Lab on a Chip · 2006 · 288 citations · 8 references

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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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