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Transport of Intensity Equation Microscopy for Dynamic Microtubules
Q. Tyrell Davis
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Microtubules (MTs) are filamentous protein polymers roughly 25 nm in diameter. Ubiquitous in eukaryotes, MTs are well known for their structural role but also act as actuators, sensors, and, in association with other proteins, checkpoint regulators. The thin diameter and transparency of microtubules classifies them as sub-resolution phase objects, with concomitant imaging challenges. Label-free methods for imaging microtubules are preferred when long exposure times would lead to phototoxicity in fluorescence, or for retaining more native structure and activity. This method approaches quantitative phase imaging of MTs as an inverse problem based on the Transport of Intensity Equation. In a co-registered comparison of MT signal-to-background-noise ratio, TIE Microscopy of MTs shows an improvement of more than three times that of video-enhanced bright field imaging. This method avoids the anisotropy caused by prisms used in differential interference contrast and takes only two defocused images as input. Unlike other label-free techniques for imaging microtubules, in TIE microscopy background removal is a natural consequence of taking the difference of two defocused images, so the need to frequently update a background image is eliminated.
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