Illumination apparatus optimized for synthetic aperture optics imaging using minimum selective excitation patterns
First Claim
1. A method for performing synthetic aperture optics (SAO) on a target including one or more objects, the method comprising the steps of:
- illuminating the target with a predetermined number (N) of selective excitation patterns, wherein the target is illuminated with two or three phases of each one of the selective excitation patterns;
optically imaging the illuminated target at a first resolution, wherein the optical imaging is from illuminating the target with the two or three phases of each one of the selective excitation patterns; and
processing optical images of the illuminated target using information on the selective excitation patterns to obtain a final image of the illuminated target at a second resolution higher than the first resolution.
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Abstract
A synthetic aperture optics (SAO) imaging method minimizes the number of selective excitation patterns used to illuminate the imaging target, based on the objects'"'"' physical characteristics corresponding to spatial frequency content from the illuminated target and/or one or more parameters of the optical imaging system used for SAO. With the minimized number of selective excitation patterns, the time required to perform SAO is reduced dramatically, thereby allowing SAO to be used with DNA sequencing applications that require massive parallelization for cost reduction and high throughput. In addition, an SAO apparatus optimized to perform the SAO method is provided. The SAO apparatus includes a plurality of interference pattern generation modules that can be arranged in a half-ring shape.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for performing synthetic aperture optics (SAO) on a target including one or more objects, the method comprising the steps of:
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illuminating the target with a predetermined number (N) of selective excitation patterns, wherein the target is illuminated with two or three phases of each one of the selective excitation patterns; optically imaging the illuminated target at a first resolution, wherein the optical imaging is from illuminating the target with the two or three phases of each one of the selective excitation patterns; and processing optical images of the illuminated target using information on the selective excitation patterns to obtain a final image of the illuminated target at a second resolution higher than the first resolution. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for performing synthetic aperture optics (SAO) on a target including one or more objects, the apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of interference pattern generation modules (IPGMs), each IPGM configured to generate a pair of light beams that interfere to generate a selective excitation pattern illuminating the target at a predetermined orientation and a predetermined pitch, each IPGM further configured to generate two or three phases of the corresponding selective excitation pattern, the number of IPGMs being equal to a predetermined number (N) of selective excitation patterns used for performing SAO on the target, and the predetermined number (N) of selective excitation patterns corresponding to a number of k-space sampling points in a k-space sampling space in a frequency domain; and an optical imaging module configured to optically image the illuminated target at a first resolution, the optical imaging module further configured to optically image the illuminated target from illuminating the target with the two or three phases of the selective excitation pattern from each of the plurality of IPGMs, the optical image of the illuminated target being further processed using information on the selective excitation pattern to obtain a final image of the illuminated target at a second resolution higher than the first resolution. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus for performing synthetic aperture optics (SAO) on a target including one or more objects, the apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of interference pattern generation modules (IPGMs), each IPGM configured to generate a pair of light beams that interfere to generate a selective excitation pattern illuminated on the target at a predetermined orientation and a predetermined pitch, each IPGM further configured to generate two or three phases of the selective excitation pattern; a monolithic half-ring shaped structure holding the plurality of IPGMs arranged in a half-ring shape; an optical imaging module configured to optically image the illuminated target at a first resolution, the optical imaging module further configured to optically image the illuminated target from illuminating the target with the two or three phases of the selective excitation pattern from each of the plurality of IPGMs, the optical image of the illuminated target being further processed using information on the selective excitation pattern to obtain a final image of the illuminated target at a second resolution higher than the first resolution. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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