Microscopy in its various forms is an essential tool in an ever-growing range of human activity, from basic research in the natural sciences, industrial research and development, process and quality control, forensics and biosafety, to clinical human and veterinary medical diagnostics, among others. The most widely used form of microscopy is optical. The resolution of standard forms of optical microscopy, however, is limited to several hundred nanometers by the diffraction of light between the specimen and the microscope objective lens. Due to its wave properties, light passing through a circular lens creates a ring-shaped diffraction pattern; the images of two different points formed by such a lens can be resolved if the principal diffraction maximum of one point lies outside of the first minimum of the other point. This theoretical diffraction limit, also known as the Abbe limit or Rayleigh criterion, is approximately equal to 0.61 λ/NA, where λ is the wavelength of the light and NA is the numerical aperture of the lens, given by
NA=n sin α
where n is the index of refraction of the optical medium between the lens and the specimen and α is the half-angle of acceptance of the lens. Currently available microscope objective lenses typically have NA<1.4, so that the theoretical diffraction limit for visible light is >200 nm; in practice the resolution limit of standard optical microscopes, compromised by various lens aberrations, is poorer, seldom much below 0.5 μm.
A variety of approaches have been taken to reduce or overcome the diffraction limit. NA can be increased by use of high refractive index media. The size of an illumination spot can be reduced by strategies such as stimulated emission depletion (STED), or the positions of sparse individual molecules can be approximated by the centers of their diffracted images.
Near-field scanning optical microscopes (NSOMs) can overcome the diffraction limit by using a probe having a tip smaller than the wavelength of light and positioned less than a wavelength from the specimen. In a typical configuration, the probe tip or aperture is scanned along the specimen close to its surface to map the near field produced by fluorescence at the specimen surface. NSOM imaging is non-destructive and can be carried out in an aqueous environment, permitting observation of living cells and hydrated molecules.
Other methods exist that do not require scanning, but instead require a superlens. Lensless microscopy methods are known, however they may require integration of multiple images or subsequent computational image derivation in order to produce usable images.
In general, in an aspect, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.
Implementations may include one or more of the following features. A specimen chamber adjacent the surface is defined in part by a wall that is spaced apart from the surface and transmits light to illuminate the specimen. A fluid channel carries a fluid specimen into the chamber. A second fluid channel carries the fluid specimen out of the chamber.
The array of the imaging device is positioned near an atomic force microscope. The chamber lid has one or more electrodes contacting the top of the specimen chamber. The surface of the photosensitive array has a conductive layer functioning as one or more surface electrodes. The one or more surface electrode(s) and the chamber lid electrode(s) are connected by wires to a potential-applying or potential-measuring device. The chamber lid electrodes are arranged in a matrix. The surface electrodes are arranged in a matrix. The potential-applying device is configured to address each chamber lid electrode and/or surface electrode individually or as a group. The imaging device is used for fluorescence lifetime imaging. The light source emits light primarily in the far ultraviolet wavelength band. The imaging device is used to collect specimen at the surface of the imaging device or at the top of the specimen chamber. The imaging device is used to perform wound healing experiments. The imaging device is used to perform cell migration experiments.
Among other advantages of these and other aspects and features are the following. These approaches in devices are simple, easy to use, not cumbersome, have broad applicability to a very wide range of applications, are relatively inexpensive and rapid. In some implementations, they are suitable for imaging of moving or rapidly changing specimens. Difficult to fabricate and/or expensive optical elements may not be required.
These and other features and aspects, and combinations of them, may be expressed as methods, systems, components, means and steps for performing functions, business methods, program products, and in other ways.
Other advantages and features will become apparent from the following description and from the claims.
The devices and methods described here can yield high-resolution images of a specimen without the need for lenses or computational image correction. Images are captured using an imaging integrated circuit having a high-resolution photosensitive array of pixels presenting a photosensitive surface, with supporting circuitry for readout, and associated computing equipment for data processing and user interaction. Light sources may be ambient or provided in an apparatus as appropriate. For parts of the specimen within half a pixel width of the photosensitive surface, the resolution of the image is limited by the size of the pixels making up the photosensitive surface. If the average width of these pixels is less than about half the wavelength of the light being used and the specimen is within half a pixel width of the photosensitive surface, then the near-field criterion may be satisfied and images can be obtained that equal or exceed the resolution of standard lens-based optical microscopes. The near-field criterion may be considered to be reached, for example, when the distance between the photosensitive surface and the specimen is less than the wavelength of interest.
Embodiments of imaging devices are illustrated by the examples shown in
In some examples, the chamber lid may be made of any material that is rigid enough to resist warping or cracking under pressure. In some embodiments, the chamber lid 103 is at least partially transmissive of light. In some embodiments, the walls 105 are made of opaque material (examples include metal and ceramic) and the top 107 is either absent or made of transparent material. In some embodiments, the chamber lid 103 is made of glass or polystyrene and the top is between about 0.5 mm and about 1 mm in thickness. The walls of the chamber lid are of such dimensions and thickness as to approximately enclose the photosensitive surface in their inside dimensions and to approximately enclose the imaging integrated circuit in their outside dimensions. In some embodiments, the walls of the chamber lid are rectangular and each wall of the chamber lid has an inside length less than about 10 mm. The distance between the top 107 of the chamber lid 103 and the surface 111 is preferably between about 50 μm and about 1 mm, more preferably between about 75 μm and about 250 μm. In some embodiments, the top 107 achieves the desired specimen chamber height in the region of a recess 110 with respect to the height of the walls 105; in some embodiments, the recess is either absent, or no larger than necessary to receive a light source 161. A surface of the bottom 109 of the chamber lid 103 may be rubberized with a gasket or treated with a water-resistant microlayer, to assure a fluid-tight pressure-resistant seal when pressed down upon the non-photosensitive ceramic or plastic package of the imaging integrated circuit 113 by spring clips 123. The specimen chamber holds the specimen and medium in which the specimen is carried. For dry specimens, the medium may be air or some other gas or gas mixture appropriate to the stability or properties of the specimen. For liquid specimens or specimens suspended or dissolved in liquid, the medium is an appropriate liquid; the chamber need not be voided of gas in order to obtain images of such specimens.
In some embodiments, the chamber lid 103 incorporates one or more electrodes 631, positioned to contact the top of the sample chamber 101, electrically connected to a voltmeter or input-switchable potential-measuring or -applying device 635 by associated wires 637 (see
In some embodiments, a matrix of electrodes 631 is arranged in an 8×8 grid, in which each electrode has about a 50×50 micron area positioned in a 150, 300, or 450 micron spacing configuration. In some embodiments, the wires 637 attached to their respective electrodes 631 are themselves substantially transparent conductive layers, separated by insulating material and embedded in a transparent substrate to allow for independent electrical conduction to each electrode and to a ribbon cable connecting the wires 637 to the device 635. In some embodiments, the matrix of electrodes 631 is a multi-electrode array produced by Multi Channel Systems, Reutlingen, Germany.
The imaging integrated circuit 113, a very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit, has a high-resolution photosensitive array 203 including a two-dimensional array of pixels presented at its surface 111, surrounded by non-photosensitive supporting circuitry 205 for readout. The imaging integrated circuit 113 (including packaging) is electrically and mechanically attached to the headboard 127, which is a printed circuit board whose components connect to circuitry on the mounting block 125. The imaging integrated circuit 113 makes electronic and mechanical connection to the headboard 127 by means of a multiplicity of solder pads 131. Integrated circuit packaging for such purposes includes but is not limited to ball grid arrays, quad flat packs, and leadless chip carriers. The array 203 is made of materials used in very-large-scale or larger integrated circuits; in some embodiments, the array is substantially germanium, gallium nitride, or gallium arsenide. In some embodiments, the array is substantially silicon. In some embodiments, the high-resolution photosensitive array comprises a charge-coupled device (CCD); in other embodiments, the high-resolution photosensitive array is fabricated in CMOS. As an illustrative example, the OmniVision OV5642 imaging integrated circuit has area dimensions approximately 6.96 mm×6.71 mm, surrounding a photosensitive array approximately 3.67 mm×2.73 mm in area. This array is near centered, having a center with respect to the IC center (0,0) at about (220, 445) μm.
The chamber lid 103 is positioned in place within a space 115 defined by a rectangular locating block 117. Both the locating block 117 and the imaging integrated circuit 113 on its headboard 127 are situated atop the mounting block 125. The mounting block 125 is large enough in area to accommodate the dimensions of the locating block plus the spring clips 123. The locating block 117 is bonded to the mounting block 125 by means of solder, adhesive, or screws. In some embodiments, the locating block is made of a rigid, opaque material (examples of which include plastic, metal, or fiberglass) of about 1-2 mm thickness, with length dimensions of at most about 0.5 mm larger than those of the chamber lid walls. Two or more adjacent spring clips 11 are bonded to mounting block 125 at their bases 124, and they overlay locating block 117 and at least part of the walls 105 of the chamber lid 103, holding the lid in place inside the space 115. There are two spring clips 123 on each of two opposite sides 119, 121 of the locating block. The spring clips on each side are oriented in parallel and are of such shape as to facilitate insertion and removal of specimens and the chamber lid 103 when not in operation, but to maintain the lid in place during operation. In some embodiments, the spring clips are metal. In some embodiments, the spring clips are plastic. In some embodiments, the chamber lid is held in the space by means of other fasteners such as, for example, screws or slides adapted to the inside of the locating block. The outside edge of the imaging integrated circuit 113 is surrounded by a rectangular shim 129 of height approximately equal to the circuit's height and thickness equal to the remainder of the space 115 not occupied by the imaging integrated circuit. The shim 129 is made of suitable shimming material; as examples, the shim can be made of plastic, phenolic, fiberglass, or metal. The shim 129 is bonded to the mounting block 125 by means of solder, adhesive, or screws; it is also bonded to the outside edge of the imaging integrated circuit 113 by means of injected latex, silicone, plastic (preferably polystyrene), or adhesive so as to maintain a fluid-tight seal with the imaging integrated circuit.
One or more angled fluid channels are situated each having one lower end opening into the specimen chamber and the other, upper end positioned so as to allow flow of liquid specimen into or out of the specimen chamber, as appropriate. In some embodiments, there is a first fluid channel 153 and a second fluid channel 155 situated opposite each other within the walls 105 of the specimen chamber 103. These fluid channels have diameter slightly less than the height of the specimen chamber. They are, for example, cylindrical and oriented at an angle, for example, about 45 degrees with respect to the surface 111, permitting passage of fluid from the outside of the device into the specimen chamber. In some embodiments, a fluid flow system 151 is connected to fluid channels 153, 155 by tubing 152 and respective connectors 154,156, e.g. micro-Luer-Lok hubs. The fluid flow system 151 includes the tubing 152, a pump 157 that is preferably reversible and capable of variable flow rate, a reservoir 159, and a waste chamber 149. The tubing is preferably fused silica or plastic. In some embodiments, there are several pairs of fluid channels and associated fluid flow systems for flow cytometry and sorting applications.
A specimen may be placed into the specimen chamber 101, either by temporarily removing the chamber lid 103 to give access to the specimen chamber, or, particularly in the case of liquid specimen, by inserting the liquid specimen through one of the fluid channels 153, 155. Liquid specimens could be blood or other cells or microorganisms, seeds, pollen, spores, particles, droplets, crystals, sediments or other materials, suspended in water, saline or other aqueous solutions, or any other sufficiently fluid and non-viscous inorganic or organic fluid. Such liquid specimens may be static, or can flow through the chamber during imaging, driven either by negative or positive pressure provided by a micro-pump, syringe, gravity, surface tension, rotating discs or any other suitable motive source. Such liquid specimens could be input using a micropipette, a syringe or another such loading device, by deposition of a droplet onto the inlet, or by connection of a fluid reservoir.
Specimens may be, among other things, organic or inorganic, living or dead, dry or in liquid, and also combinations of those. Specimens, which depend on the resolution of the particular embodiment, can include but are not limited to proteins, DNA, RNA, nanomaterials, nanoscale structures, thin sections prepared by microtome or ultramicrotome, polymers, saccharides, lipid vesicles, biological cells, tissue samples, histological sections, micro-organisms, viruses, and combinations of those specimens. In some embodiments, seeding of a living specimen such as a cell onto the photosensitive surface or associated substrate or coating will allow for real-time or time-lapsed imaging of cell growth, movement, or other dynamic behavior. In some embodiments, specimens are stationary. In some embodiments the specimens may be caused to flow across the photosensitive surface by use of fluid channels attached to pumps and reservoirs. In some embodiments, there is at least a pair of fluid channels. In some embodiments, there are three or more fluid channels, the number being governed by the flow characteristics that are suitable for the application. In some embodiments, fluid flow is actuated by positive pressure; in some embodiments, fluid flow is actuated by negative pressure. Such an arrangement may be useful in the evaluation of disease states as imaged from cell suspensions or bodily fluids, including but not limited to blood, lymph, semen, bile, and urine. In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit outputs images to a computer comprising appropriate software for flow cytometry.
In some embodiments, placement of the specimen is manual; in the absence of a chamber lid, placing a specimen directly on the photosensitive surface will automatically satisfy or approximately satisfy the conditions for pixel-limited resolution for at least some part of the specimen; if the distance between at least part of the specimen and the photosensitive surface is less than the wavelength of light, the near-field criterion is also satisfied. In some embodiments, of interest for specimens in liquid, the specimen is placed on the imaging integrated circuit or substrate using a fluid flow system for movement and flow-through imaging of the specimen as it passes the imaging integrated circuit. Such a fluid flow system can comprise a simple system for liquid specimen placement and removal, such as a droplet of a specimen manually applied to the imaging integrated circuit, and a blotting paper oblique to the imaging integrated circuit and in contact with the specimen so as to soak up the liquid over time. In other embodiments, such a fluid flow system comprises a pump or other appropriate means for pulling/pushing the specimen; and a specimen-containing conduit, at least a segment of which (namely, the segment in the optical path) is substantially transmissive to a predetermined wavelength.
Images of the specimen can be obtained in the presence of the light source 161. The light source 161 produces at least one wavelength for which the imaging integrated circuit 113 is responsive. In some embodiments, the light source includes a laser and the predetermined wavelength is the substantially monochromatic wavelength of the laser. In some embodiments, the light source includes a blackbody and the predetermined wavelength band is a segment of the electromagnetic spectrum which the blackbody is suitably efficient at producing, with or without use of a bandpass spectral filter interposed between the light source and the specimen. In some embodiments, the light source comprises one or more light-emitting diodes 163, for example, an organic light-emitting diode array, oriented so as to produce light in the predetermined wavelength band or bands. In some embodiments, the light source is continuous. In some embodiments, the light source is pulsed. In some embodiments, the light source is polarized. In some embodiments, the light source may be placed on the tip of a nanoscale probe. In some embodiments, the light source includes any ambient, incandescent, or fluorescent light source, including light produced by the sun 165. In some embodiments, the light source is structured, such as a periodic grating of bright bars. In some embodiments, there may be additional light sources. In conjunction with appropriate oblique, pulsed, polarized, structured, or other forms of illumination, some embodiments can generate additional useful information corresponding to methods known in the art of microscopy, including but by no means limited to dark field, fluorescence, fluorescence lifetime, optical tomography, and polarization microscopy. In some embodiments, the specimen is itself the light source 161; for example through chemi-luminescence, or because the photosensitive array is treated to render it sensitive to radiation emitted by a radioactive specimen. In some embodiments, the light source is part of a portable electronic device capable of multi-color light emission 167, such as a smartphone. In some embodiments, the smartphone has a high-intensity organic light-emitting diode display 169 that allows for illumination at different wavelengths and positions relative to the photosensitive surface, with independently controlled onset and duration and capable of simultaneous light source control so as to approximate a uniformly diffuse source.
The spectra of the light source(s) may lie in any predetermined region of the electromagnetic spectrum detectable using photosensitive arrays, with or without specialized treatments to extend the effective ranges of wavelengths detectable by such arrays. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is in the infrared spectrum. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is in the ultraviolet spectrum. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is in the visible spectrum. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is in the X-ray spectrum. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is in the microwave spectrum. In some embodiments, the predetermined wavelength or wavelength band is approximately that which has a frequency between about 1 Terahertz and about 1,000 Terahertz. Combinations of light in two or more bands may be used in some examples.
In some embodiments that are pertinent, for example, to fluorescence microscopy, the light source produces light substantially in the far ultraviolet spectrum, for example below 300 nm, and the photosensitive surface is inherently, or by application of appropriate coatings, insensitive with respect to the far ultraviolet, such that excitation of a specimen does not produce a signal, but the longer-wavelength fluorescence or phosphorescence of the specimen does produce a signal.
In some embodiments, the light source is a rapidly modulated source such as an LED that produces light within the excitation band of the specimen and substantially within the absorption band of the photosensitive surface. The imaging integrated circuit is switched off during excitation to avoid recording a signal during excitation, and is rapidly turned on again in time to record fluorescence (for example, decaying over nanoseconds or tens of nanoseconds) or phosphorescence (for example, decaying over milliseconds or longer) signals. This modality may be of use in, for example, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM).
In some embodiments, the light source includes individually controlled light-emitting diodes (LEDs) selected for their spectral emission characteristics and their uniformity of emitted light, and positioned so as to facilitate the analyses contemplated. In some embodiments, the light sources are positioned so as to uniformly illuminate the specimen chamber. The LEDs are controlled, for example, by either an embedded controller incorporated within the instrument or by a microprocessor contained in smartphones or other commercially-available, “off-the-shelf” computing devices. The LEDs will be controlled, for example, either singly or in groups so as to facilitate the analyses to be contemplated, including but not limited to conventional microscopy wherein the illuminator, the specimen and the imaging system are substantially aligned, and dark-field microscopy wherein the specimen is illuminated from an angle outside the acceptance angle of the pixel. In addition, through appropriate selection of the LEDs in the illuminator, the contemplated contact microscope can be used for, but not be limited to, e.g., color imaging, fluorescence microscopy, polarization microscopy, infra-red and ultra-violet microscopy. Some embodiments will incorporate multiple illuminators, each of which may have different characteristics so as to facilitate the conduct of a wider range of analyses. In some embodiments the illuminators will be easily interchangeable. In some embodiments the illuminators may include organic LED (OLED), passive matrix organic LED (PMOLED) or active matrix organic LED (AMOLED) panel with selective addressing. Some embodiments facilitate both uniform specimen illumination and rapid illumination variation so as to facilitate analyses yet to be contemplated with both stationary and moving specimens. In some embodiments, an AMOLED panel may be used to illuminate the specimen through appropriate control of the panel photoemitters. In some examples, the illuminator can include LEDs, organic LED panels, fluorescent panels, x-ray sources, ultraviolet sources, ambient illumination such as sunlight or room light, incandescent sources, or any other light source, including none, e.g., for chemiluminescent specimens, and combinations of these examples. Configurations of the sources include, but are not limited to, flat panels, rectangular or other grid layouts of sources, movable sources, multi-color sources, and sources affixed to the inside or a hemispherical shell mounted over the specimen chamber with the centre of the chamber as the center of the shell, or combinations of them. Control of the illumination sources may include, but not be limited to, steady illumination, selectively exciting one or a plurality of illumination sources simultaneously or in sequence, controlling the intensity of any one or a plurality of sources, controlling each or a plurality of sources so as to have a specific temporal illumination pattern, or using any one or any combination of them and others (including future technologies). The controller for the illumination may include, but not be limited to, a manual controller such as a switch or knob, an automated embedded computing system, an external computing system such as a smartphone, an external computing system such as a desktop or laptop computer, or a combination of the foregoing.
In our discussion we use the term “high-resolution” to refer, for example, to a resolution that equals or exceeds the resolution of standard lens-based optical microscopes. For example, depending on the context of the application, high-resolution can mean less than 5 μm, less than 2 μm, less than 1 μm, less than about 0.5 μm, or even less. Resolution is primarily determined by the pixel size of the photosensitive array. Some photosensitive arrays have many million square pixels each slightly more than 1 μm on a side, resulting in a resolution of about 1 μm; the resolution achievable will improve with decreasing pixel sizes, theoretically exceeding, for example, 1 billion pixels, each as small as 200 nm or less on a side, as the design and fabrication techniques of integrated circuits or other devices improve. The number, shape, and arrangement of pixels in the array is arbitrary, with no intrinsic limit, and can be predetermined for manufacture based on the corresponding application of interest. In some embodiments, the longest pixel dimension is 10 μm or smaller. In some embodiments, the longest pixel dimension is 5 μm or smaller. In some embodiments, the longest pixel dimension is 1 micron or smaller. In some embodiments, the longest pixel dimension is 500 nm or smaller. In some embodiments, the longest pixel dimension is 250 nm or smaller.
Imaging integrated circuits can be constructed that have pixel sizes smaller than the wavelength of visible light, as shown, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 7,153,720, incorporated here by reference. In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit includes a charge-coupled device (CCD). In other embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit is fabricated using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. CCDs have advantages for contact optical microscopy applications, including the ability to detect light over the full exposed surface of the chip (100% fill factor), though they have slower readout speeds relative to CMOS due to requirement for sequential transfer of charge from light-sensing (parallel register) to readout (serial register) elements. Various configurations of CCD can be used: full-frame architecture is desirable to maximize the proportion of the chip available for imaging, but requires an external shutter to prevent image smearing during readout; whereas frame-transfer architecture avoids image smearing, but in the process requires a masked, non-photosensitive area of the parallel register of about the same size as the photosensitive area of the parallel register, with the result that the imaging integrated circuit has about half the photosensitive area of a full-frame architecture. Because of the small area of the individual pixels in the arrays used in this invention, the charge collected in each pixel will be small under many imaging conditions; however, as the specimen is in contact, or nearly in contact, with the pixel, the pixel's effective acceptance angle for photons emanating from the specimen is larger than that achieved by lenses in conventional microscopy. In some CCD embodiments, to increase the sensitivity further, CCDs of any architecture may additionally employ electron multiplying gain, in which high clock voltages applied to an extended region of the serial register(s) amplify the charge of each pixel as it is shifted to the output node(s).
CMOS devices have alternative advantages for these applications, including less expensive fabrication, signal processing (including amplification) by electronic elements embedded in individual pixels, and the ability to read out independently-addressed pixel values individually without sequential transfer. In some CMOS embodiments, thinned back-side illuminated arrays are used; though previously requiring expensive and complex fabrication methods, these can now be fabricated cheaply using bonded wafer processes such as those that use silicon-on-insulator substrates with a buried oxide layer as an etch-stop to yield a uniformly optimally thinned light-absorbing back layer (see as an example, U.S. Pat. No. 7,425,460, incorporated here by reference). Light entering ordinary (front-side illuminated) imaging integrated circuits typically passes through overlying layers that scatter light and whose metal circuit elements block the underlying photosensitive layer; in back-side illuminated imaging integrated circuits the photosensitive layer is close to the surface, above the metal circuit-bearing layers, typically resulting in less light blocking (larger “fill factors”) and consequently higher effective quantum efficiency.
In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit is windowless. Most commercially available imaging devices have a protective window over the CCD or CMOS, and typically this window must be absent in order for the specimen to come close enough to the photosensitive surface to achieve high resolution, as defined above, without computational image processing. When a point on the specimen is less than half a pixel width from the center of the closest pixel, nearly all the light emitted or scattered from that point toward the array will predominantly be incident on, and therefore excite, only the closest pixel; under these conditions, resolution is determined by the pixel size or, more precisely, by the size of a circle of equivalent area (i.e., ˜450 nm resolution for a 400 nm×400 nm pixel), although resolution may be further enhanced by computation, specimen flow, or other means. No lenses or any other optical components are required to achieve these conditions, and thus to achieve such pixel-limited resolution.
Specimens or parts of specimens farther from the photosensitive surface are not imaged as sharply, due to the spread of light between the specimen and the photosensitive surface. As the distance between a point light source and the photosensitive surface of the array is increased, the image of the point at the photosensitive surface exhibits increasing blur, as light from the point impinges upon, and excites, additional pixels beyond the pixel directly below and nearest to the point. The extent of that spread to additional pixels is governed by two considerations that limit the angle of acceptance of light by the pixels (where angle of acceptance refers to the maximum deviation of a ray from the surface normal at which the ray can influence the pixel output).
Firstly, as the angle of incidence of light onto the photosensitive surface with respect to the surface normal is increased, an increasing portion of the light is reflected, until an angle is reached beyond which all the light is reflected. This relationship is defined by the Fresnel formulas as follows:
where
where Ts is the resultant transmission coefficient for s-polarized light, Tp is the resultant transmission coefficient for p-polarized light, and T is the resultant transmission coefficient for unpolarized light. The transmission coefficients are plotted in
Secondly, as the angle of light incidence with respect to the surface normal increases, the pixel poses a decreasing profile with respect to the light source.
This situation is shown in
The projection of the pixel area in the direction of the source is:
where d is the distance of the point source above the photosensitive surface, m and n are the x and y dimensions of each pixel respectively, and r is the distance from the point along the photosensitive surface to the pixel of interest. This projected area subtends a solid angle at the source given by:
and so the proportion of the light flux emitted by the source that falls on this projected area is:
where Is is the source light flux and Ii is the incident intensity on the projected area of the pixel under consideration. The light that passes into the pixel is this light, further attenuated by the transmission coefficient due to the angle made by the light with the surface of the pixel. Thus, the light available for detection is:
For example, consider a specimen in aqueous suspension overlaying the surface of a photosensitive array constructed in silicon. Using an index of refraction n1 for water of 1.33 and for silicon n2 of 4.08, which are approximately their respective indices at a wavelength of 550 nm, the computed spread of detected intensity of light emitted by a point source as a function of distance of the source from the silicon surface is shown in
Tolerance for such blurring will depend upon the specific imaging application; in some cases, useful information can be obtained from specimen regions that do not satisfy the near-field criterion, such as specimens many micrometers or tens of micrometers from the photosensitive surface. In some embodiments, the distance between the specimen and the photosensitive surface is approximately equal to one of the following quantities: ten times the average wavelength produced by the light source, or less than five times the average wavelength, or preferably less than three times the average wavelength, or more preferably less than the predetermined wavelength, or still more preferably less than half the predetermined wavelength.
In some embodiments, some of the supporting circuitry for readout is contained within the imaging integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the supporting circuitry is coupled to additional supporting circuitry or microprocessors that control the functions of the integrated circuit, such as gain or data clock rate. In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit is commercial and off-the-shelf, having a high-resolution photosensitive array, supporting circuitry for readout, and an industry-standard interface for connection to a computer-based system for image data display, storage, and analysis, for example, the Aptina MT9E013, the OmniVision OV14825, and the OmniVision OV14810; the technical data for which are incorporated here by reference. As an illustrative example, the OmniVision OV5642 incorporates the full functionality of a single chip, 5 megapixel digital camera with 1.4 micron pixel widths, including output of images at 15 frames per second (fps) in RAW RGB mode and up to 60 fps in 1080i resolution. The OV5642 supplies images for readout via serial camera control bus (SCCB) and mobile industry processor (MIPI) interfaces using digital video parallel and MIPI serial ports. It also supports output in RGB565/855/444, CCIR656, YUV422/420, and YCbCr422 modes. The signal descriptions, pad numbers, and corresponding block and pad diagrams for OV5642 illustrate a preferred implementation for an imaging integrated circuit; these are hereby incorporated by reference to the OmniVision OV5642 datasheet and product specification version 2.03. Computer-based systems that are capable of connection to the supporting circuitry may be embedded or standalone, purpose-built or off-the-shelf, including, for example purpose-designed embedded computing systems, smartphones, portable computers, and netbooks.
In some embodiments, the computer-based system has firmware or software for image analysis, storage, illumination control, and display. Such firmware or software has previously been paired with optical microscopes and digital camera technology. In some embodiments, the computer-based system implements algorithms to enhance, detect, analyze, characterize, and measure images of cells and other specimens of interest and to display or transmit the result of these algorithms to a human operator and/or a second computer-based system, such as a smartphone or storage system including hospital record storage systems. In some embodiments, the computer-based system implements enhancement algorithms that can identify images of discrete specimens in smooth flow in a series of time-lapsed images.
In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit's supporting circuitry is coupled to additional circuitry on the mounting block. In some embodiments, the mounting block incorporates certain interfaces in hardware that are capable of supplying the RAW, RGB, and/or TWAIN standard. Examples of interfaces for optical microscope cameras that could be adapted include those included in the Jenoptik ProgRes Professional Color CCD Firewire Camera; the Luminera Infinity Color CCD or CMOS USB-2 Cameras; and the Motic Moticam Color CMOS USB-2 Camera; the technical data and owner's manuals for which are incorporated here by reference. In some embodiments, a computer-based system is coupled to the mounting block interfaces for imaging analysis, display, and storage. Examples of imaging analysis software that could be used include ProgRes CapturePro, Infinity Capture and Infinity Analyze, and Motic Images Plus; the technical data and owner's manuals for which are incorporated here by reference. In some embodiments, the image captured by the imaging integrated circuit is outputted to a storage medium. In some embodiments, the image captured by the imaging integrated circuit is outputted to a real-time display device. In some embodiments, only pixels of interest need be output from the imaging integrated circuit in order to maintain a desired high temporal resolution; CMOS-based imaging integrated circuits are well suited for this task but other architectures are possible. The raw data of pixel array intensities, or the post-acquisition images themselves, may be enhanced by various computational means including but not limited to deconvolution, pixel interpolation, spatial filtering, noise reduction, edge enhancement, and other methods. Moreover, in some embodiments, a suboptimal point-spread function (whereby light meant to be detected at a given pixel is also detected by an adjacent pixel) may be corrected computationally. In some embodiments of an imaging system, the imaging integrated circuit, associated electronics, and analysis device are integrated so as to be combined in a portable housing; the light source may be integrated, standalone, or supplied from ambient light, allowing for desktop-, laptop-, cellphone-, or smaller-sized microscopes as the desired application requires.
In some embodiments, there is a chamber lid that is substantially transmissive to at least one wavelength of light produced by a light source. The locating block is preferably a rectangle. The walls of the chamber lid may be square, rectangular, circular, elliptical, or some other shape appropriate to the specimen being imaged. In some embodiments, the top surface of the chamber lid is absent and a multi-colour light-emitting display surface forms the top of the specimen chamber. In some embodiments, the chamber lid and locator block are partially or substantially transparent or translucent. In other embodiments, the chamber lid and locator block are opaque; examples of applications for such a design include chemiluminescence imaging and autoradiography. In some embodiments, the specimen chamber lid is not present, as for microscopic imaging of the surface of large or thick specimens.
In some embodiments, the specimen chamber has a probe; examples of probes include temperature probe 501 and pH probe 503. In some embodiments, the specimen chamber has a pair or more of mounted electrodes 507, 509 along the perimeter of the chamber for applying transverse or longitudinal electric fields or for stimulation of specimens. Such an arrangement of electrodes may be used, as examples and in conjunction with appropriate fluid handling as described above, for electrophoresis, separation/sorting, determination of specimen surface charge, determination of zeta potential, cell stimulation, and specimen orientation. In some embodiments, the specimen chamber has a heating element 505. Such a heating element may be used, as examples, in the observation of time-dependent processes and in the incubation of live specimens for time-lapse imaging.
In some embodiments, the photosensitive surface has been treated with one or more thin layers. The layers may be considered thin when the aggregate thickness of such layers as applied to a photosensitive surface still allows for the near-field criterion to be satisfied or approximately satisfied. In some embodiments, the layers are thin enough for specimens to come within half a pixel width of the photosensitive surface. In some embodiments, the layers are thin enough in the direction of the optical path so that the total distance that the optical path takes through the layers is no more than about the wavelength of interest. In some embodiments, a thin layer of transparent chemically resistant material coats the photosensitive surface. Such a thin-film substrate may be any sufficiently transparent and insulating material, including but not limited to silicon oxide, titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, tantalum oxide, magnesium fluoride, lanthanum fluoride, aluminum fluoride, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride; and it may be deposited by a variety of means including but not limited to magnetron sputtering, chemical vapour deposition, thermal or vacuum arc plasma evaporation. In some embodiments, the substrate is a dielectric thin film acting as an interference filter, thereby restricting the spectral sensitivity of the underlying pixels as appropriate to a given application. In some embodiments, the substrate is used to effect certain forms of color imaging. In certain embodiments, the substrate is substantially transmissive to a portion of a predetermined wavelength band, such as a band-pass filter. In other embodiments such as for fluorescence or emission microscopy, the substrate 618 is substantially transmissive to an alternative predetermined wavelength band which corresponds to the wavelength band produced by fluorescence, emission, or in other ways, of the specimen. In some embodiments, the substrate includes a dielectric thin film acting as an anti-reflection coating. In some embodiments, there are multiple substrates situated in close contact to each other. In some embodiments, the photosensitive surface is silanized so as to decrease adhesion between the surface and the specimen. In some embodiments, the chemically resistant material 615 includes diamond, deposited in a suitably thin layer as, for example, by chemical vapor deposition. In some embodiments, the chemically resistant material includes Al2O3 or Si3N4, deposited in a suitably thin layer as, for example, by chemical vapour deposition. Such materials can impart more robust characteristics to the photosensitive surface, allowing for ease of cleaning as well as protection of the surface from abrasive specimens. In some embodiments, a passivation layer 620, typically of Si3N4, coats the imaging integrated circuit, resulting in reduced conductivity when used with metallic or other conductive samples such as salt solutions. Technology is available to deposit such filters as a thin film and in arbitrary pixel-by-pixel patterns. In some embodiments, the imaging integrated circuit incorporates a pixel-by-pixel array of microlenses as, for example, a light-collecting stage of sufficient thinness so as to allow the near-field criterion to be satisfied or approximately satisfied.
In some embodiments, a thin layer of polarizing material 614 coats the photosensitive surface. In some embodiments, a thin layer of absorptive material 614 coats the photosensitive surface. In some embodiments, a thin layer of interference material 614 coats the photosensitive surface. In some embodiments, a thin layer of surface plasmon generating material 619 coats the photosensitive surface.
In some embodiments, a passivation layer 620 coats the photosensitive surface and a thin layer of substantially transparent conductive material 619 coats the passivation layer. In some embodiments, the layer 619 may act as one or more surface electrode(s) in conjunction with one or more wires 637 electrically connecting the layer to a voltmeter or switchable potential-measuring device 635; in turn, one or more wires 633 electrically connects the device 635 to one or more respective transparent electrodes 631 mounted on the top of the chamber 101 to enable the measurement or application of an electric potential between any electrode 631 and the layer 619 (see
In some embodiments, the thin layer of conductive material 619 is indium tin oxide (ITO). Transparent electrically-conductive layers of ITO can be very thin, e.g., less than 350 nm, less than 100 nm, less than 50 nm, or less than 25 nm in thickness; and thus when, for example, deposited on the photosensitive surface may allow for the near-field criterion to be satisfied or approximately satisfied.
In some embodiments a single electrode 619 covers substantially all of the imaging integrated circuit 613. In some embodiments, there is a plurality of electrodes 619 and wires 637 arranged in a matrix for efficient coverage of substantially all of the imaging integrated circuit 613. In some embodiments, the input-switchable potential-measuring or -applying device 635 allows for addressable measurement and/or application of potential between any or every pair of electrodes 619 and 631. In some embodiments, the potential is measured. In some embodiments, the potential is applied such that the difference in voltage between electrode 619 and electrode 631 is positive. In some embodiments, the potential is applied such that the difference in voltage between electrode 619 and electrode 631 is negative. The applied potential, if any, may range in amplitude from zero to about 50 volts; or from zero to about 5 volts; or from zero to about 500 millivolts; or from zero to about 50 millivolts; or from zero to about 5 millivolts.
In some embodiments, a potential is applied between the surface of the imaging integrated circuit, which forms the bottom of the chamber, and that of the inner surface of the chamber lid, which forms the top of the chamber. Such a potential allows for movement of charged particles along the current vector; this can be useful, for example, in collecting/concentrating cells or particles at the surface of the imaging integrated circuit for optimal imaging, or at the inner surface of the chamber lid for exclusion from imaging, depending on the sign of the potential and the net charge of the cell or particle. In some embodiments, applying a potential may result in immobilization of a particle or cell at either surface. See Cook, G. M. W. (1968). Biol. Rev. 43, 363-391; and Bayer M E, Sloyer J L Jr. (1990) J Gen Microbiol. 136, 867-74; both papers are incorporated here by reference. In some embodiments, the potential is applied between one surface electrode and one chamber lid electrode. In some embodiments, the potential is applied between several surface electrodes and several chamber lid electrodes. In some embodiments, the potential is applied between substantially all surface electrodes and substantially all chamber lid electrodes.
In some embodiments, applying a potential allows for selective electroporation of a cell, killing it, as in wound healing experiments, or enabling the entrance of ordinarily impermeable molecules into that cell, as in transfection to introduce DNA or other genetic material, or to introduce dyes, drugs, etc. In some embodiments, cell migration experiments are enabled by applying a gradient of potential between the surface of the imaging integrated circuit and the chamber lid that increases across the matrix of electrodes from one side of the chamber to the other. In some embodiments, the electrodes 619 and 631 are addressable from their matrix so as to allow for cell or particle selection. In some embodiments in flow, applying a potential allows for diversion of cells or particles into an upper or lower flow stream for segregation and selection of streams by charge. In some embodiments, the switchable potential-applying or potential-measuring device 635 is used to stimulate or record electrical activity in a cell or cells close to the electrodes 619, for simultaneous or near-simultaneous microscopic imaging and electrical stimulation or recording of the cells (see as an example U.S. Pat. No. 6,297,025, incorporated here by reference).
In some embodiments, a thin layer of adhesive material 617 coats the imaging integrated circuit 613. Coatings with molecules having specific affinities can be used to exclude or enrich particular cells or other specimens of interest. Such treatment could also be used, in conjunction with fluorophores 616, nanoparticles or microbeads, for binding assays. Non-selective adhesives will create an imaging “stick patch” that could be used, as an example, for forensic applications. In some embodiments, a thin layer of light-transmissive material 614 containing fluorophores, phosphors or up-converters coats the photosensitive surface. Such molecules are excited at one wavelength and emit at another. In some embodiments, fluorophores are excited with wavelengths outside the spectrally sensitive range of the imaging integrated circuit and emitting, including by frequency upconversion, within the circuit's spectral range, thereby extending the useful spectral range of the imaging integrated circuit, e.g. into the X-ray spectrum for X-ray microscopy.
In some embodiments, the device further comprises a system for detecting Raman scattering. In some embodiments, the device further comprises a system for detecting X-ray fluorescence.
In some embodiments, an imaging device is used in conjunction with an atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever arm 801 by placement of the imaging integrated circuit pixel(s) 805 underneath the tip of the AFM 803 (for example, see
A specimen of a thin Mylar sheet was placed in direct contact with the exposed surface of a commercially available, 1.3 megapixel CMOS imaging integrated circuit having 5.2 μm×5.2 μm pixels, and an image (
Using the CMOS imaging integrated circuit and light source of Example 1, a specimen of aerosol organic solvent was nebulized and thereby deposited onto the chip surface. Acquisition of the image produced
A 1 μl droplet of water was deposited directly onto the CMOS chip surface as in Examples 1 and 2, using the same light source. Edges of the droplet spontaneously aligned with the pixel rows and columns, yielding the unusual lozenge shape. Suspended in the droplet were Sephadex beads of sizes ranging from <20 μm to >100 μm. Acquisition of the image produced
The protective window of an Aptina CMOS imaging integrated circuit was removed, exposing the photosensitive surface of the array having of 2.2 μm×2.2 μm pixels. A diffuse white light source was used, as was a computer-based system equipped with commercially available software for image acquisition as supplied with the array. A minute sample (˜10 μl) of blood was obtained from an African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and diluted in calcium-free amphibian Ringer's solution. A drop of the diluted blood was deposited directly onto the surface of the array. Acquisition of an image by the array produced
Using the same imaging integrated circuit of Example 4, a video sequence of a live Daphnia in pond water was obtained, a region of interest from two frames of which is shown in
Other embodiments are also within the scope of the following claims.
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