Shamira Sridharan

Graduate Student, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

http://light.ece.illinois.edu

Shamira Sridharan is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL).

FIGURE 1. A quantitative phase image of a prostate biopsy is stitched together from 100 (10 × 10) smaller field-of-view images. The quantitative data is indicated in different colors with red being a long optical path length and blue being a short optical path length. The color bar indicates phase shift in radians. The data show that the basal cell layer is clearly visible in the high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) cores.

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PHOTONICS APPLIED: BIOPHOTONICS: Gradient field microscopy allows label-free disease diagnosis

Dr. Gabriel Popescu, Ph.D.

Aug. 1, 2012

Intrinsic contrast methods that rely on the passage of light through a transparent sample promise to change clinical pathology as we know it. Without requiring labels such as ...