
Phase imaging can be used in a reflection or transmission geometry. In biology it has the advantage of being marker-free. It can measure physical shape, and refractive index variations, ideally in three dimensions (3D). In transmission, phase is related to optical path difference. The phase difference after travelling through a thickness t in a medium with refractive index n as compared with the ambient refractive index n0 is
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