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Francesco Merola
Researcher at National Research Council
Publications - 140
Citations - 2393
Francesco Merola is an academic researcher from National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Digital holography & Holography. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 134 publications receiving 1899 citations. Previous affiliations of Francesco Merola include Polytechnic University of Turin & University of Naples Federico II.
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Tomographic flow cytometry by digital holography.
Francesco Merola,Pasquale Memmolo,Lisa Miccio,Roberto Savoia,Martina Mugnano,Angelo Fontana,Giuliana d'Ippolito,Angela Sardo,Achille Iolascon,Antonella Gambale,Pietro Ferraro +10 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that by exploiting the random rolling of cells while they are flowing along a microfluidic channel, it is possible to obtain in-line phase-contrast tomography, if smart strategies for wavefront analysis are adopted.
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Red blood cell as an adaptive optofluidic microlens.
TL;DR: It is shown that a suspended red blood cell behaves as an adaptive liquid-lens at microscale, thus demonstrating its imaging capability and tunable focal length and blood diagnosis is demonstrated by screening abnormal cells through focal-spot analysis applied to an RBC ensemble as a microlens array.
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Digital holography as a method for 3D imaging and estimating the biovolume of motile cells
Francesco Merola,Lisa Miccio,Pasquale Memmolo,G. Di Caprio,A. Galli,Roberto Puglisi,Donatella Balduzzi,Giuseppe Coppola,Paolo A. Netti,Pietro Ferraro +9 more
TL;DR: A quantitative imaging approach is shown to estimate simply and quickly the biovolume of sperm cells, combining the optical tweezers technique with digital holography, in a single and integrated set-up for a biotechnology assay process on the lab-on-a-chip scale.
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Super-resolution in digital holography by a two-dimensional dynamic phase grating.
Melania Paturzo,Francesco Merola,Simonetta Grilli,S. De Nicola,Andrea Finizio,Pietro Ferraro +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that, by means of a flexible hexagonal phase grating, it is possible to increase the numerical aperture of the imaging system, thus improving the spatial resolution of the images in two dimensions.
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3D morphometry of red blood cells by digital holography.
Pasquale Memmolo,Lisa Miccio,Francesco Merola,Oriella Gennari,Paolo A. Netti,Paolo A. Netti,Pietro Ferraro +6 more
TL;DR: This work proves the new procedure for healthy red blood cells (RBCs) (i.e., discocytes) having a concave surface in their central region and shows that the method can be also useful to classify, in terms of morphology, different varieties of RBCs.