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White-light diffraction tomography

A clever extension to a classic phase-contrast microscope allows speckle-free three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging of living cells in a tomographic imaging mode.

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Figure 1: Principle of WDT.

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Bouwens, A., Lasser, T. White-light diffraction tomography. Nature Photon 8, 173–174 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.44

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