Detection of crystals in joint fluid aspirates with polychromatic polarisation microscopy

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA hjumah@metrohealth.org.
• ² Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
• ³ National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ⁴ Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⁵ Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Rheumatology, Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Pathology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.