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Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Bright field microscopy -- 1.2. Phase contrast microscopy -- 1.3. Quantitative phase microscopy -- 1.4. Coherence properties of laser light -- 1.5. Origin of speckles in imaging and microscopy -- 1.6. Effects of speckle on imaging and microscopy -- 1.7. Methods of generating partially spatially coherent light

2. Partially spatially coherent off-axis quantitative phase microscopy -- 2.1. Off-axis holographic phase microscopy -- 2.2. Partially spatially coherent off-axis quantitative phase microscopy -- 2.3. Image characteristics -- 2.4. Extraction of quantitative information using phase map

3. Partially spatially coherent common-path quantitative phase microscopy -- 3.1. Gabor (in-line) holography -- 3.2. Diffraction phase microscopy -- 3.3. Fourier phase microscopy -- 3.4. Lateral shearing interferometric phase microscopy -- 3.5. Fresnel bi-prism based interferometric phase microscopy -- 3.6. Spatial phase sensitivity -- 3.7. Temporal phase stability -- 3.8. Resolution of the system

4. Structured illumination quantitative phase microscopy -- 4.1. Diffraction-limited resolution of phase microscopy -- 4.2. Structured illumination schemes for phase microscopy -- 4.3. Common-path geometries for SIQPM -- 4.4. Phase reconstruction algorithms for SIPM

5. Multimodal on-chip nanoscopy and quantitative phase microscopy -- 5.1. Fluorescence imaging -- 5.2. Total internal reflections fluorescence microscopy -- 5.3. Super-resolution fluorescence imaging -- 5.4. Integrated on-chip nanoscopy and partially spatially coherent quantitative phase microscopy -- 5.5. Applications of integrated on-chip nanoscopy and quantitative phase microscopy

6. Longitudinal spatial coherence gated tomography using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light -- 6.1. Introduction to time-domain and frequency-domain optical coherence tomography -- 6.2. Axial-resolution in OCT systems -- 6.3. Dispersion effects in OCT -- 6.4. Concept of longitudinal spatial coherence -- 6.5. Longitudinal spatial coherence gated topography and tomography

7. Low-coherence (white light) interference microscopy with colour fringe analysis -- 7.1. Introduction to low coherence interferometry -- 7.2. Phase-shifting white light interference microscopy -- 7.3. Color fringe analysis -- 7.4. Quantitative information about biological samples

8. Artificial intelligence : a computational tool to interpret quantitative phase imaging -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Machine learning to understand QPI/need of machine learning and deep learning in phase microscopy -- 8.3. Practical prescription for machine learning in QPI -- 8.4. Outlook

9. Multi-spectral and hyper-spectral phase microscopy -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Multi-spectral phase microscopy -- 9.3. Hyper-spectral quantitative phase microscopy -- 9.4. Optical configurations of multi-spectral and hyper-spectral phase microscopy -- 9.5. Light sources for multi-spectral and hyper-spectral phase microscopy -- 9.6. Recording devices for multi-spectral and hyper-spectral phase microscopy -- 9.7. Algorithms for image reconstruction -- 9.8. Applications of multi-spectral and hyper-spectral phase microscopy -- 10. Conclusions and future prospects.

This book develops and describes the most advanced QPM techniques and computational imaging techniques using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light rather than highly coherent lasers.

Researcher's, doctoral and post-doctoral students working in the area of biomedical optics, bio-photonics, advance microscopy, holography and optical metrology.

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Dr. Dalip Singh Mehta is currently a Professor at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

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