SNR-based adaptive acquisition method for fast Fourier ptychographic microscopy

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging technique with both high resolution and large field-of-view. However, the effective numerical aperture (NA) achievable with a typical LED panel is ambiguous and usually relies on the repeated tests of different illumination NAs. The imaging quality of each raw image usually depends on the visual assessments, which is subjective and inaccurate especially for those dark field images. Moreover, the acquisition process is really time-consuming. In this paper, we propose a SNR-based adaptive acquisition method for quantitative evaluation and adaptive collection of each raw image according to the signal-to-noise ration (SNR) value, to improve the FPM’s acquisition efficiency and automatically obtain the maximum achievable NA, reducing the time of collection, storage and subsequent calculation. The widely used EPRY-FPM algorithm is applied without adding any algorithm complexity and computational burden. 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