{"id":137214,"date":"2022-03-21T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/lensless-camera-captures-cellular-level-3d-details"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:34:52","slug":"lensless-camera-captures-cellular-level-3d-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/lensless-camera-captures-cellular-level-3d-details","title":{"rendered":"Lensless Camera Captures Cellular-Level 3D Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lensless-camera-captures-cellular-level-3d-details.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University researchers have tested a tiny lensless microscope called Bio-FlatScope, capable of producing high levels of detail in living samples. The team imaged plants, hydra, and, to a limited extent, a human.<\/p>\n<p>A previous iteration of the technology, FlatCam, was a lensless device that channeled light through a mask and directly onto a camera sensor, aimed primarily outward at the world at large. The raw images looked like static, but a custom algorithm translated the raw data into focused images.<\/p>\n<p>The device described in current research looks inward to image micron-scale targets such as cells and blood vessels inside the body, and even through skin. The technology combines a sophisticated phase mask to generate patterns of light that fall directly onto the chip, the researchers said. The mask in the original FlatCam looked like a barcode and limited the amount of light that passes through to the sensor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University researchers have tested a tiny lensless microscope called Bio-FlatScope, capable of producing high levels of detail in living samples. The team imaged plants, hydra, and, to a limited extent, a human. A previous iteration of the technology, FlatCam, was a lensless device that channeled light through a mask and directly onto a camera [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}