The General Hospital Corporation

Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Boston University

Aramco Services Company

Hari Prasad Paudel

Charles P Lin

Mazen Kanj

Shannon Lee Eichmann

Bennett B Goldberg

Thomas Gary Bifano

William Shain

Systems, methods, and apparatus for differential phase contrast microscopy by transobjective differential epi-detection of forward scattered light are provided. In some embodiments, a microscope objective comprises: a housing with mounting threads at a second end; optical components defining an optical axis, comprising: an objective lens mounted at a first end, configured to collect light from a sample placed in a field of view, the plurality of optical components create a pupil plane at a first distance along the optical axis at which rays having the same angle of incidence on the objective lens converge at the same radial distance from the optical axis; a photodetector within the housing offset from the optical axis at a second distance along the optical axis; and another photodetector within the housing at second distance along the optical axis and offset from the optical axis in the opposite direction from the first photodetector.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for differential phase contrast microscopy by transobjective differential epi-detection of forward scattered light

Systems, methods, and apparatus for differential phase contrast microscopy by transobjective differential EPI-detection of forward scattered light

Embodiments of the invention provide an imaging system and method using adaptive optics and optimization algorithms for imaging through highly scattering media in oil reservoir applications and lab-based petroleum research. Two-/multi-photon fluorescence microscopy is used in conjunction with adaptive optics for enhanced imaging and detection capabilities in scattering reservoir media. Advanced fluorescence techniques are used to allow for super-penetration imaging to compensate for aberrations both in and out of the field of interest, extending the depth at which pore geometry can be imaged within a rock matrix beyond the current capability of confocal microscopy. The placement of a Deformable Mirror or Spatial Light Modulator for this application, in which scattering and index mismatch are dominant aberrations, is in an optical plane that is conjugate to the pupil plane of the objective lens in the imaging system.

Adaptive optics for imaging through highly scattering media in oil reservoir applications

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Hari Prasad Paudel