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

Heng, Xin; Erickson, David; Baugh, L Ryan; Yaqoob, Zahid; Sternberg, Paul W; Psaltis, Demetri; Yang, Changhuei · Lab Chip · 2006

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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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