Analysis of cell movement using label-free phase-contrast microscopy enables differentiation between healthy fibroblasts and cancerous fibrosarcoma cells with up to 94% accuracy.

Now phase-contrast microscopy, interference microscopy, Schlieren and dark-ground illumination are essentially methods for revealing small variations in refractive index (or strictly, optical path).

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

The team of researchers, led by Professor Hiromi Miyoshi, came up with a way of tracking cells using phase-contrast microscopy, one of the most common ways of observing cells. Phase-contrast ...

Tracing the paths of cancerous and healthy cells. The team used phase-contrast microscopy to identify the trajectories of individual cells. Credit must be given to the creator.