Colloquia & Guest Speakers

Computational imaging for Gigapixel phase microscopy

Laura Waller, UC Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Friday, June 5, 2015
1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

Goergen 101

Abstract:

This talk will describe new methods for achieving high-resolution 3D intensity and phase images in a commercial microscope, by computational approaches. We describe setups employing illumination-side and detection-side coding of angle (Fourier) space for capturing 4D phase-space (e.g. light field) and phase retrieval data sets with fast acquisition times. Experimentally, we achieve real-time 3D and phase imaging with digital aberration correction and mitigation of scattering effects. The result is a high-resolution image with a large field of view, approaching Gigapixel-scale space-bandwidth-time product. Such computational approaches to optical microscopy add significant new capabilities to commercial biological microscopes without significant hardware modification.

Bio:

Laura Waller is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), with affiliations in Bioengineering, QB3 and Applied Sciences & Technology. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Physics at Princeton University from 2010-2012 and received B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004, 2005, and 2010, respectively. She is a Moore Foundation Data-Driven Investigator, Bakar fellow, NSF CAREER awardee and Packard Fellow.

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