Measurement of Dispersion of the Refractive Index of Microscopic Volumes of the BSA Aqueous Solution Using an Interference Microscopeстатья
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Аннотация:An interference microscopy-based method for measuring the refractive index of microscopicobjects is considered. It is shown that of special interest is the analysis of the dispersion of the refractive indexof small objects of biological fluids, which can make it possible to separate fluctuations of the size and therefractive index of the object in studying living cells by methods of phase microscopy. A method for measuringthe dispersion of the refractive index of microscopic volumes of fluids using the MIA-1D automated interference microscope and a measuring cell with a microwell is described. An algorithm for processing theobtained images with the aim of calculating the refractive index is presented. The measurement results for thedispersion of the refractive index of bovine serum albumin are given. It is shown that the proposed methodallows one to measure the refractive index of fluids in microscopic volumes up to four or five decimal places