Pietro Ferraro

TL;DR: A label-free holographic total internal reflection microscopy technique is shown; the technique is able to evaluate quantitatively the contact area of live fibroblast cells adhering onto the surface of a ferroelectric lithium niobate crystal, and results show values of contact area significantly different between cells adhered to the positive or negative face of the crystal.

TL;DR: The proposed method is non-iterative, fully parallelizable, and completely blind, unlocking the use of Fourier Ptychography as an easy to handle tool or add-on to existing microscopes to be employed by unskilled users, thus paving the way to biomedical and clinical practices.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that new optical parameters of RBCs can be measured and analyzed thus opening the route to exploit the bio-lensing modeling as a new biomechanical marker of R BCs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple large scale biological sample phase detection device called gravity driven high throughput phase detecting cytometer based on quantitative interferometric microscopy to obtain flowing red blood cells phase.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to improve the DOF and to recover the extended focus image of a tilted object in a single reconstruction step and the possibility of obtaining well-focused biological cells flowing into a tilted microfluidic channel is demonstrated.