Optofluidic microscopy—a method for implementing a high resolution optical microscope on a chip
- 4 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Lab on a Chip
- Vol. 6 (10), 1274-1276
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b604676b
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.Keywords
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