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• the tomographic refractive index measurement is typically performed with a coUimated laser beam whose angle of incidence onto the sample is varied as in X-ray computer tomography .
• the refractive index map may be obtained with a spatially-incoherent beam and scanning the objective focus through the sample .
• the sample has to be stationary while the illumination direction or the objective focus is varied, which limits the throughput of imaging.
• the present invention relates to systems and methods for 3-D holographic imaging of
• micro-fluidic channel material such as cells that continuously flow in a micro-fluidic channel.
• light such as a laser beam is focused in a line within a micro-fluidic channel that is used to measure angular spectra scattered from the cells flowing across the line.
• off-axis digital holography is used to enable a single-shot recording of the field for 5 each location of a specimen.
• a microfluidic channel configured to reduce cell tumbling and enable the use of high-NA condenser and objective lenses is used to transport material across the field of view of the system.
• a preferred embodiment uses a two dimensional detector array to detect a plurality of phase images of a sample moving within the channel.
• a data processor then processes the image data to provide phase images and to compute a refractive index distribution within the sample.
• the phase and amplitude components of the image data are mapped to a 3-D 5 sonogram, a Fourier transform of the data is performed and the data is then mapped to the scattering potential in the frequency domain , a reconstruction process is applied and the inverse Fourier transform is performed to provide the 3-D scattering potential from which the 3-D refractive index distribution is obtained.
• a plurality of light sources can be used to 0 illuminate the channel at different wavelengths to measure the refractive index dispersion and to quantify molecular composition.
• Light from two different light sources operating at different wavelengths, for example, can be combined along a common sample delivery path and split onto two different detections after passing through the sample.
• Figs. 1C and ID include schematic diagrams of exemplary optical systems used to record the angular spectra scattered from a sample (where CL and CLl-3: cylindrical lens; Ml and M2: mirror; B l and B2: beam splitter L: condenser lens; OL: objective lens; TL: tube lens; and SP: sample plane; FP: back focal plane and IP: Image Plane) and a micro-fluidic channel used for measurements;
• Fig. 4A an exemplary reconstructed refractive index map of the RKO cell: (Fig. 4A(i)) center cross-section (Scale bar, 5 zm); (Fig. 4A(ii)) cross-sections at multiple heights extracted with an 15 ⁇ interval; and (Fig. 4A(iii)) the bottom half of the same cell after 3-D rendering;
• the systems and methods of the present disclosure have proven effective in label-free 3-D imaging of live RKO human colon cancer cells and RPMI8226 multiple myeloma cells, as well as in obtaining the volume, dry mass, and density of these cells from the measured 3-D RI maps.
• a converging cylindrical wave (Fig. 1A) can be decomposed into plane wave constituents that are in-phase on the line of convergence. Specifically, the complex amplitude of the electric field focused with a cylindrical lens can be written under the non-paraxial condition as
• E bg (k x , y) may be recorded for varying locations j of the sample while it passes across the line-focused beam, wherein the variable k x is the spatial frequency coordinate corresponding to the spatial coordinate x .
• E bg (k x , y) may also record an angular spectrum E bg (k x , y) before starting the experiment.
• k x is the spatial frequency corresponding to the spatial coordinate x and the angular spectrum a ⁇ y; ?? ⁇ is measured for different values of ⁇ (see Fig. 1A).
• Equation (5) provides a way to map the measured angular spectra scattered from a specimen to the scattering potential of the specimen in the spatial frequency space.
• Figs. lC and ID show exemplary systems 40 used to record the angular spectra from a sample, e.g., the sample shown in Fig. IB.
• This Mach-Zehnder-type interferometer enables the recording of both the amplitude and phase of a complex field in a single shot measurement.
• Initial beam shaping optics e.g., a pair of condenser lenses
• first beam splitter Bl into a reference beam (collimated) and a sample beam.
• At least one of (i) the cross-sectional height and (ii) the cross-sectional width of the flow-channel may be selected based on empirical data, e.g., based on rotation estimations for a plurality of tested flow channels derived from imaging of a reference material flowing in each of the tested flow channels. For example, a convolution may be applied based on an estimated or actual rotation of a sample to compensate for such rotation.
• Fig. ID further shows a schematic of the flow channel device 50 used in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention.
• the channel 20 is formed on a substrate 506 with a field of view 54 situated adjacent the lens (OL).
• a manifold 58 can be used to control fluid through the inflow and outflow ports 60, 62.
• the flow of polystyrene beads in a water channel was recorded using a wide-field microscope equipped with a light source 42 such as a laser for illumination.
• Fig. IE is a synthesized image of raw images extracted with 0.01 second intervals.
• the flow speed is estimated to be uniform at 1 mm/sec, and the stream-wise linear motion of beads shows that migration in the transverse direction is negligible.
• the change in the height of beads can be noticed from the change in diffraction rings, which is shown to be negligible here.
• the distributions of mass and volume are broad because the measurement was applied to an asynchronous population of cells.
• a 3-D holographic imaging flow cytometry (3-D HIFC) provides 3D refractive index map of cells continuously flowing in a micro-fluidic channel. Specifically, samples flow across a line- focused beam, and the system recorded angular spectra scattered from the samples using off-axis digital holography. By adopting a reconstruction algorithm that properly handles the diffraction and missing angle artifacts, the system generates the 3-D refractive index map of cells with high spatial resolution and accuracy. The method does not require any moving system elements, and thus it can be readily incorporated into the downstream of existing flow cytometry configurations to further increase the accuracy of screening. More importantly, the refractive index map contains rich information that can be related to the distribution of mass at cellular or subcellular levels, and thus used for measuring the metabolism of cellular organelles. The system provides for stain-free, accurate single cell characterization using refractive index contrast.
• RKO human colon cancer cells were cultured in Dulbecco Modified Eagle medium (Invitrogen, 21063-029) supplemented with 10% FBS (Invitrogen, 10438026) and 1% 100X penicillin- streptomycin solution (Invitrogen, 15140-122).
• RPMI8226 human multiple myeloma cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 media (Invitrogen, 11835-030) supplemented with 10% FBS, and 1% 100X penicillin-streptomycin solution.
• a first beamsplitter B l sample and reference beams
• later combined e.g., using a second beamsplitter B2
• Two other cylindrical lenses CL1 and CL3 may be used in the beam path to deliver the image in a 4-f configuration along the non-focusing axis.
• a mirror Ml may be used in between the tube lense (TL) and cylindrical lenses CLl-3 to shift the beam axis such that it is orthogonal with respect to the reference beam thereby enabling recombining thereof using the second beam splitter B2.
• the magnified image of the angular spectrum, which is incident onto the detector plane, creates an interferogram image together with the reference beam.
• the angle of reference beam is slightly tilted 46 with respect to the collected sample beam, e.g, using a tilt mirror M2.
• systems and methods are provided for refractive index imaging of continuously flowing cells in a microfluidic channel.
• the systems and methods described utilize off-axis digital holography that can measure the complex angular spectrum in a single- shot for each location of the flowing sample.
• an algorithm based on the scalar diffraction theory may be adopted to correct the artifacts due to defocused organelles or cells flowing at different heights.
• 3-D maps of refractive index of different cell types in the flow configuration from which one may quantify characteristics such as volume, dry mass and dry density of the cells.
• the tomographic reconstruction algorithm derived and adopted herein assumes that cells' vertical position in the channel is fixed and their rotation is negligible for the period of data collection or for complete passage of each cell across the line-focused beam. Observing the cells under a collimated laser illumination and with a high-speed camera, it can be confirmed that cell tumbling is minimal for the design and flow conditions described herein. However, without a mechanism to stabilize the cells flowing in a micro-fluidic channel, the possibility of cell rotation cannot be completely ruled out. In microfluidic systems the cell rotation is caused by shear forces acting on a cell which is proportional to the speed of the flow and inversely with size of the cell.
• a plurality of different wavelengths of light can be used to illuminate material flowing in the channel to measure the refractive index dispersion.
• a plurality of wavelengths for tomographic imaging can be found in Sung et al., "Stain-Free Quantification of Chromosomes in Live Cells Using Regularized Tomographic Phase Microscopy," PLOSONE, Vol, 7, 11 (2012), the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference.
• images of the sample can be obtained at different illumination wavelengths.
• Figs. 2(i-iv) illustrate how to process the raw interferogram image.
• the irradiance on the detector can be expressed as:
• I ⁇ x f y ⁇ I s (x,y) 4 4- 2 I s (x y)l R cos ⁇ 2n(px 4- qy - ⁇ , ⁇ )), (7)
• I s (%., ) and I R are the irradiances of the sample and reference beams, respectively, and ⁇ ( ⁇ ; ⁇ is the phase difference between the two beams.
• the vector (p ; q) indicates the angle of incidence of the sample beam on the detector plane with respect to the angle of the reference beam. The magnitude and angle of the vector explain the spacing and orientation of the fringes (see the
• ⁇ ( ,- ') by selecting the region in the dotted circle, moving it to the origin of the frequency coordinates, and taking its inverse Fourier transform.
• the images in Figs. 2(iii) and 2(iv) are the amplitude and phase images, respectively, obtained from Fig. 2(i).
• the thin PDMS layer covering the master along with thicker, cured, and previously-cut PDMS pieces (length ⁇ 1 cm, width ⁇ 0.5 cm, height ⁇ 0.3 cm) were exposed to 20 seconds of oxygen plasma and bonded on the inlet and outlet regions (Fig. IE).
• the mold was baked at 75°C for 10 minutes, cut, slowly peeled off the master mold, and then punched with a 0.75 mm puncher to define the inlet and the outlet holes of the device. Finally, a 48 x 65 mm No.
• Preferred embodiments of the present invention can utilize a multimodal imaging capability to generate complementary information regarding the sample. This can also provide additional analytical processes to further characterize the material being measured.
• Fig. 6A illustrates a process flow sequence 200 in which interferogram images are obtained from different angles 202 as described previously.
• a smoothing constraint 208 can be applied to the data in order to more accurately reflect the morphology of the material being measured. For example, cellular material typically has a more uniform refractive index distribution in the center, and undergoes a steep transition at the cell boundary.
• a positivity constraint can also be utilized that can indicate that the cells of interest have a higher index than the surrounding medium flowing within the channel.
• the additional data can also be used to populate empty regions of the frequency space 210 which can occur due to sampling errors.
• This regularization process can be used as part of an iterative processing sequence such that convergence 212 can be measured and the constraining steps repeated 214 as needed to achieve the desired convergence value.
• a second detector can be used for measurements at a second region to determine if cells in the flow are rotating during the measurement, the rate of rotation and generate compensation signals that can be used to adjust imaging parameters such as increasing the number of angular samples to correct for the rate of rotation.
• confocal imaging using a second laser light source that reflects light off of the sample can be used to image the full volume of the sample such that the resulting image data can be corrected for a lower angular sampling process. Fluorescence of the sample can be measured using this method.
• Another option is to generate images at a second wavelength and the images compared to detect different structural or compositional characteristics of the material. This data can be analyzed 256 using the iterative techniques described herein. The data can be stored 258 for further processing or display.

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