Experimental robustness of Fourier ptychography phase retrieval algorithms
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Accepted manuscript
Date
2015-12
Authors
Yeh, Li-Hao
Dong, Jonathan
Zhong, Jingshan
Tian, Lei
Chen, Michael
Tang, Gongguo
Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi
Waller, Laura
Version
OA Version
Citation
Li-Hao Yeh, Jonathan Dong, Jingshan Zhong, Lei Tian, Michael Chen, Gongguo Tang, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Laura Waller. 2015. "Experimental robustness of Fourier ptychography phase retrieval algorithms." Opt. Express, Volume 23, pp. 33214 - 33240.
Abstract
Fourier ptychography is a new computational microscopy technique that provides gigapixel-scale intensity and phase images with both wide field-of-view and high resolution. By capturing a stack of low-resolution images under different illumination angles, an inverse algorithm can be used to computationally reconstruct the high-resolution complex field. Here, we compare and classify multiple proposed inverse algorithms in terms of experimental robustness. We find that the main sources of error are noise, aberrations and mis-calibration (i.e. model mis-match). Using simulations and experiments, we demonstrate that the choice of cost function plays a critical role, with amplitude-based cost functions performing better than intensity-based ones. The reason for this is that Fourier ptychography datasets consist of images from both brightfield and darkfield illumination, representing a large range of measured intensities. Both noise (e.g. Poisson noise) and model mis-match errors are shown to scale with intensity. Hence, algorithms that use an appropriate cost function will be more tolerant to both noise and model mis-match. Given these insights, we propose a global Newton’s method algorithm which is robust and accurate. Finally, we discuss the impact of procedures for algorithmic correction of aberrations and mis-calibration.