<p>Preface<br>Natan T. Shaked, Zeev Zalevskey and Lisa L. Satterwhite</p> <ol> <p> <li>Phase contrast microscopy and differential interference contrast microscopy</li> <p>Chapter 1</p> <p>Principles of phase contrast microscopy</p> <p>Sam A. Johnson</p> <p>Editor: Lisa L. Satterwhite</p> <p>Chapter 2</p> <p>Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy</p> <p>Michael Shribak<br>Editor: Lisa L. Satterwhite</p> <p>Chapter 3</p> <p>Long term phase contrast imaging of untransformed human cells </p> <p>Yumi Uetake and Greenfield Sluder</p> <p>Editor: Lisa L. Satterwhite</p> <p>Chapter 4</p> <p>Phase imaging of plant cells and tissues</p> <p>Vassilios Sarfis <br>Editor: Zeev Zalevsky<br></p> <p> <li>Digital holographic phase microscopy </li> <p>Chapter 5 </p> <p>Measuring biophysical parameters of living cells with digital holographic microscopy</p> <p>Benjamin Rappaz, Christian Depeursinge and Pierre Marquet</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 6</p> <p>New digital holographic microscopy setups and techniques for obtaining multi-focus quantitative phase imaging of living cells</p> <p>Björn Kemper, Patrik Langehanenberg and Andreas Bauwens</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 7</p> <p>Phase unwrapping problems in digital holographic microscopy of biological cells<br>Alexander Khmaladze</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 8</p> <p>Partially-coherent lensless holographic microscopy on a chip and its application for automated semen analysis</p> <p>Ting-Wei Su and Aydogan Ozcan</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 9</p> <p>Synthetic aperture lensless digital holographic microscopy for superresolved biological imaging</p> <p>Vicente Micó, Zeev Zalevsky, Luis Granero and Javier García</p> <p>Editor: Zeev Zalevsky</p> <p>Chapter 10</p> <p>Combining digital holographic microscopy with microfluidics: a new tool in biotechnology.</p> <p>Lisa Miccio, Pasquale Memmolo, Fraancesco Merola, Melania Paturzo and Pietro Ferraro</p> <p>Editor: Zeev Zalevsky</p> <p>Chapter 11</p> <p>Holographic motility contrast imaging of live tissues</p> <p>David D. Nolte, Ran An, Kwan Jeong and John Turek</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p> <li>Advanced interferometric and polarization techniques</li> <p>Chapter 12</p> <p>Tomographic phase microscopy </p> <p>Wonshik Choi </p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 13</p> <p>Phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography</p> <p>Itay Shock and Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p><br>Chapter 14</p> <p>Polarization and spectral interferometric techniques for quantitative phase microscopy</p> <p>Yizheng Zhu, Matthew T. Rinehart, Francisco E. Robles and Adam Wax</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 15</p> <p>Polarization microscopy<br>Rudolf Oldenbourg <br>Editor: Lisa L. Satterwhite</p> <p> <li>Phase nanoscopy</li> </ol> <p>Chapter 16</p> <p>Is there a fundamental limit to optical resolution in phase microscopy? <br>Steve Lipson </p> <p>Editor: Zeev Zalevsky<br></p> <p>Chapter 17</p> <p>Nano-holographic interferometry for in-vivo observations<br>Federico Sciammarella, Cesar A. Sciammarella and Luciano Lamberti</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p> <p>Chapter 18</p> <p>Fluorescence phase microscopy <br>Alberto Bilenca, Brett Bouma, Guillermo Tearney, Iwan Märki, Noelia Bocchio, </p> <p>Stefan Geissbuehler and Theo Lasser</p> <p>Editor: Natan T. Shaked</p>