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Quantitative optical microscopy: measurement of cellular biophysical features
with a standard optical microscope
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Phillips KG
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; McCarty OJ
J Vis Exp
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We describe the use of a standard optical microscope to perform quantitative
measurements of mass, volume, and density on cellular specimens through a
combination of bright field and differential interference contrast imagery. Two
primary approaches are presented: noninterferometric quantitative phase
microscopy (NIQPM), to perform measurements of total cell mass and subcellular
density distribution, and Hilbert transform differential interference contrast
microscopy (HTDIC) to determine volume. NIQPM is based on a simplified model of
wave propagation, termed the paraxial approximation, with three underlying
assumptions: low numerical aperture (NA) illumination, weak scattering, and weak
absorption of light by the specimen. Fortunately, unstained cellular specimens
satisfy these assumptions and low NA illumination is easily achieved on
commercial microscopes. HTDIC is used to obtain volumetric information from
through-focus DIC imagery under high NA illumination conditions. High NA
illumination enables enhanced sectioning of the specimen along the optical axis.
Hilbert transform processing on the DIC image stacks greatly enhances edge
detection algorithms for localization of the specimen borders in three dimensions
by separating the gray values of the specimen intensity from those of the
background. The primary advantages of NIQPM and HTDIC lay in their technological
accessibility using "off-the-shelf" microscopes. There are two basic limitations
of these methods: slow z-stack acquisition time on commercial scopes currently
abrogates the investigation of phenomena faster than 1 frame/minute, and
secondly, diffraction effects restrict the utility of NIQPM and HTDIC to objects
from 0.2 up to 10 (NIQPM) and 20 (HTDIC) ?m in diameter, respectively. Hence, the
specimen and its associated time dynamics of interest must meet certain size and
temporal constraints to enable the use of these methods. Excitingly, most fixed
cellular specimens are readily investigated with these methods.