The invention discloses a
differential phase contrast quantitative phase
microscopic imaging method based on optimal illumination mode design. According to the method, an optimal illumination patterncorresponding to an isotropic phase
transfer function in
differential phase contrast quantitative
phase imaging is deduced, the pattern is determined as a semi-circular illumination pattern whose illumination
numerical aperture NAill is equal to a
system object lens
numerical aperture Naobj, the illumination intensity distribution starts from a direction axis and varies with the cosine of an
illumination angle, and the intensity distribution can be expressed as S(theta)=cos(theta) in polar coordinates. According to the method, the frequency loss of the phase transmission is effectively compensated, the
transmission performance of a highest frequency is enhanced, at the same time, the transmission property of low-frequency phase information is also significantly improved, the
correctness and
high resolution of a phase result are ensured, at the same time, the number of illumination axes is reduced to two by an optimal illumination scheme, the number of collected images needed by
differential phase contrast quantitative
phase imaging is greatly reduced, the imaging speed is improved, and a real-time dynamic
phase imaging result with high accuracy and
high resolution is obtained.