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. 2018 Sep 19;7:66. doi: 10.1038/s41377-018-0067-0

Fig. 2. The image quality of the flow cytometer allows the identification of plankton.

Fig. 2

Examples of various ocean planktons detected by our imaging flow cytometer at the Los Angeles coastline, represented by their a raw holograms and b phase-contrast reconstructions following phase recovery. The organisms were identified as (1) Chaetoceros lorenzianus, (2) Chaetoceros debilis, (3) Ditylum brightwellii, (4) Lauderia, (5) Leptocylindrus, (6) Pseudo-nitzschia, (7) Ceratium fusus, (8) Ceratium furca, (9) Eucampia cornuta, (10) Bacteriastrum, (11) Hemiaulus, (12) Skeletonema, (13) Ciliate, (14) Cerataulina, (15) Guinardia striata, (16) Lithodesmium, (17) Pleurosigma, (18) Protoperidinium claudicans, (19) Protoperidinium steinii, (20) Prorocentrum micans, (21) Lingulodinium polyedra, (22) Dinophysis, (23) Dictyocha fibula (silica skeleton), and (24) Thalassionema. The yellow rectangle in a-1 represents the segmented and 45° rotated area corresponding to the reconstructed images