High-speed Fourier ptychographic microscopy based on programmable annular illuminations

High-throughput quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is essential to cellular phenotypes characterization as it allows high-content cell analysis and avoids adverse effects of staining reagents on cellular viability and cell signaling. Among different approaches, Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is probably the most promising technique to realize high-throughput QPI by synthesizing a wide-field, high-resolution complex image from multiple angle-variably illuminated, low-resolution images. However, the large dataset requirement in conventional FPM significantly limits its imaging speed, resulting in low temporal throughput. Moreover, the underlying theoretical mechanism as well as optimum illumination scheme for high-accuracy phase imaging in FPM remains unclear. Herein, we report a high-speed FPM technique based on programmable annular illuminations (AIFPM). The optical-transfer-function (OTF) analysis of FPM reveals that the low-frequency phase information can only be correctly recovered if the LEDs are precisely located at the edge of the objective numerical aperture (NA) in the frequency space. By using only 4 low-resolution images corresponding to 4 tilted illuminations matching a 10×, 0.4 NA objective, we present the high-speed imaging results of in vitro Hela cells mitosis and apoptosis at a frame rate of 25 Hz with a full-pitch resolution of 655 nm at a wavelength of 525 nm (effective NA = 0.8) across a wide field-of-view (FOV) of 1.77 mm2, corresponding to a space–bandwidth–time product of 411 megapixels per second. Our work reveals an important capability of FPM towards high-speed high-throughput imaging of in vitro live cells, achieving video-rate QPI performance across a wide range of scales, both spatial and temporal.

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