Multiwavelength digital holographic microscopy (DHM) has been used to improve phase reconstructions of digital holograms by reducing 2π phase ambiguities. However, most samples used as test images have been solid or adhered to a surface, making it easy to determine focal planes and correct for chromatic aberration. In this study we apply 3-wavelength off-axis DHM to swimming protozoa containing distinct spectral features such as chlorophyll and carotenoids. We reconstruct the holograms into amplitude and phase images using the angular spectrum method. Methods for noise subtraction, chromatic aberration correction, and image registration are presented for both amplitude and phase. Approaches to phase unwrapping are evaluated and compared to expected results from simulated holograms. The algorithms used are implemented in plug-ins using the open source Fiji platform and are available for use, significantly expanding the open-source software available for DHM.
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is an interferometric technique with several advantages over traditional light microscopy. A hologram is an interference pattern produced by a coherent "reference" beam recombining with an "object" beam from the same source but that has passed through a sample (Fig. 1). The interference fringes encode the phase and amplitude of the object beam at the detector and can be used to calculate their values at any point along the path of the object beam (e.g. within the sample volume). These values can be used to calculate an intensity image (equivalent to brightfield) and a "phase" image that displays the index of refraction times the thickness of the objects of that index along the path. Resolution is the same as a conventional optical microscope with a comparable objective, but for typical optics needed to image prokaryotes, no loss in resolution is seen with samples as thick as a millimeter. This represents an approximately 100-fold improvement in depth of field over high-power light microscopy. No focusing is required and there are no moving parts. Plane-by-plane images are obtained through numerical reconstruction [1, 2]; all z-plane information is encoded in a single hologram.
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