FPM app: an open-source application for simple and intuitive Fourier ptychographic reconstruction

Abstract

SummaryFourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a computational microscopy technique that enables large field of view and high-resolution microscopic imaging of biological samples. However, the FPM does not yet have an adequately capable open-source software. In order to fill this gap we are presenting novel, simple, universal, semi-automatic and highly intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) open-source application called the FPM app enabling wide-scale robust FPM reconstruction. Apart from implementing the FPM in accessible GUI app, we also made several improvements in the FPM image reconstruction process itself, making the FPM more automatic, noise-robust and faster. Availability and ImplementationFPM app was implemented in MATLAB and all MATLAB codes along with standalone executable version of the FPM app and the online documentation are freely accessible at https://github.com/MRogalski96/FPM-app. Our exemplary FPM datasets may be downloaded at https://bit.ly/2MxNpGb.