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Mechanisms of renal autoregulation generate oscillations in arterial blood flow at several characteristic frequencies. Full‐field laser speckle flowmetry provides a real‐time imaging of superficial blood microcirculation. The possibility to detect changes in oscillatory dynamics is an important issue in biomedical applications. In this paper we show how laser power density affects quality of the recorded signal and improves detectability of temporal changes in microvascular perfusion.
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Robert Koprowski 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(11-12):935-943
The paper presents problems and solutions related to hyperspectral image pre‐processing. New methods of preliminary image analysis are proposed. The paper shows problems occurring in Matlab when trying to analyse this type of images. Moreover, new methods are discussed which provide the source code in Matlab that can be used in practice without any licensing restrictions.
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Giuseppe Di Caprio Maria Antonietta Ferrara Lisa Miccio Francesco Merola Pasquale Memmolo Pietro Ferraro Giuseppe Coppola 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(10):779-789
Male reproductive health in both humans and animals is an important research field in biological study. In order to characterize the morphology, the motility and the concentration of the sperm cells, which are the most important parameters to feature them, digital holography demonstrated to be an attractive technique. Indeed, it is a label‐free, non‐invasive and high‐resolution method that enables the characterization of live specimen. The review is intended both for summarizing the state‐of‐art on the semen analysis and recent achievement obtained by means of digital holography and for exploring new possible applications of digital holography in this field.
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Common perception regards the nucleus as a densely packed object with higher refractive index (RI) and mass density than the surrounding cytoplasm. Here, the volume of isolated nuclei is systematically varied by electrostatic and osmotic conditions as well as drug treatments that modify chromatin conformation. The refractive index and dry mass of isolated nuclei is derived from quantitative phase measurements using digital holographic microscopy (DHM). Surprisingly, the cell nucleus is found to have a lower RI and mass density than the cytoplasm in four different cell lines and throughout the cell cycle. This result has important implications for conceptualizing light tissue interactions as well as biological processes in cells.
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Comparing Raman and fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy from human atherosclerotic lesions using a bimodal probe 下载免费PDF全文
Sebastian Dochow Hussain Fatakdawala Jennifer E. Phipps Dinglong Ma Thomas Bocklitz Michael Schmitt John W. Bishop Kenneth B. Margulies Laura Marcu Jürgen Popp 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(9):958-966
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) and Raman spectroscopy are two promising methods to support morphological intravascular imaging techniques with chemical contrast. Both approaches are complementary and may also be used in combination with OCT/IVUS to add chemical specificity to these morphologic intravascular imaging modalities. In this contribution, both modalities were simultaneously acquired from two human coronary specimens using a bimodal probe. A previously trained SVM model was used to interpret the fluorescence lifetime data; integrated band intensities displayed in RGB false color images were used to interpret the Raman data. Both modalities demonstrate unique strengths and weaknesses and these will be discussed in comparison to histologic analyses from the two coronary arteries imaged.
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Luca Dalbosco Giulia Zanini Elvira D'Amato Francesco Tessarolo Sebastiana Boi Paolo Bauer Albrecht Haase Renzo Antolini 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(10):816-825
Photodamage, induced by femtosecond laser radiation, was studied in thick samples of human skin tissue (healthy skin and neoplastic lesions). Photobleaching, photoionization, and thermomechanical damage effects were characterized comparatively. The laser power dependence of the damage rates allowed to connect macroscopic effects to underlying molecular processes. Optical effects were correlated to histopathological changes. Tissue alterations were found only from thermomechanical cavitation and limited to superficial layers of the epidermis. From the depth‐dependencies of all damage thresholds a depth‐dependent power‐compensation scheme was defined allowing for damage‐free deep tissue optical biopsy.
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Label‐free and non‐invasive monitoring of porcine trophoblast derived cells: differentiation in serum and serum‐free media 下载免费PDF全文
Qifei Li Edison Suasnavas Lifu Xiao Sierra Heywood Xiaojun Qi Anhong Zhou S. Clay Isom 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(8):638-645
Traditional approaches to characterize stem cell differentiation are time‐consuming, lengthy and invasive. Here, Raman microspectroscopy (RM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) – both considered as non‐invasive techniques – are applied to detect the biochemical and biophysical properties of trophoblast derived stem‐like cells incubated up to 10 days under conditions designed to induce differentiation. Significant biochemical and biophysical differences between control cells and differentiated cells were observed. Quantitative real time PCR was also applied to analyze gene expression. The relationship between cell differentiation and associated cellular biochemical and biomechanical changes were discussed.
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Dual‐polarization Raman spectral imaging to extract overlapping molecular fingerprints of living cells 下载免费PDF全文
Liang‐da Chiu Almar F. Palonpon Nicholas I. Smith Satoshi Kawata Mikiko Sodeoka Katsumasa Fujita 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(7):546-554
Raman spectral imaging is gaining more and more attention in biological studies because of its label‐free characteristic. However, the discrimination of overlapping chemical contrasts has been a major challenge. In this study, we introduce an optical method to simultaneously obtain two orthogonally polarized Raman images from a single scan of the sample. We demonstrate how this technique can improve the quality and quantity of the hyperspectral Raman dataset and how the technique is expected to further extend the horizons of Raman spectral imaging in biological studies by providing more detailed chemical information.
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Cell perforation mediated by plasmonic bubbles generated by a single near infrared femtosecond laser pulse 下载免费PDF全文
We report on transient membrane perforation of living cancer cells using plasmonic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) enhanced single near infrared (NIR) femtosecond (fs) laser pulse. Under optimized laser energy fluence, single pulse treatment (τ = 45 fs, λ = 800 nm) resulted in 77% cell perforation efficiency and 90% cell viability. Using dark field and ultrafast imaging, we demonstrated that the generation of submicron bubbles around the AuNPs is the necessary condition for the cell membrane perforation. AuNP clustering increased drastically the bubble generation efficiency, thus enabling an effective laser treatment using low energy dose in the NIR optical therapeutical window.
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Kwasi Kwakwa Alexander Savell Timothy Davies Ian Munro Simona Parrinello Marco A. Purbhoo Paul M.W. French 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(9):948-957
TIRF and STORM microscopy are super‐resolving fluorescence imaging modalities for which current implementations on standard microscopes can present significant complexity and cost. We present a straightforward and low‐cost approach to implement STORM and TIRF taking advantage of multimode optical fibres and multimode diode lasers to provide the required excitation light. Combined with open source software and relatively simple protocols to prepare samples for STORM, including the use of Vectashield for non‐TIRF imaging, this approach enables TIRF and STORM imaging of cells labelled with appropriate dyes or expressing suitable fluorescent proteins to become widely accessible at low cost.
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Jingting Li Yong Du Ji Qi Ravikumar Sneha Anthony Chang Chandra Mohan Wei‐Chuan Shih 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(3):260-269
Both acute nephritis and chronic nephritis account for substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide, partly due to the lack of reliable tools for detecting disease early and monitoring its progression non‐invasively. In this work, Raman spectroscopy coupled with multivariate analysis are employed for the first time to study the accelerated progression of nephritis in anti‐GBM mouse model. Preliminary results show up to 98% discriminant accuracy for the severe and midly diseased and the healthy among two strains of mice with different susceptibility to acute glomerulonephritis. This technique has the potential for non‐invasive or minimally‐invasive early diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of renal disease progression.
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Subcellular measurements of mechanical and chemical properties using dual Raman‐Brillouin microspectroscopy 下载免费PDF全文
Zhaokai Meng Sandra C. Bustamante Lopez Kenith E. Meissner Vladislav V. Yakovlev 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(3):201-207
Brillouin microspectroscopy is a powerful technique for noninvasive optical imaging. In particular, Brillouin microspectroscopy uniquely allows assessing a sample's mechanical properties with microscopic spatial resolution. Recent advances in background‐free Brillouin microspectroscopy make it possible to image scattering samples without substantial degradation of the data quality. However, measurements at the cellular‐ and subcellular‐level have never been performed to date due to the limited signal strength. In this report, by adopting our recently optimized VIPA‐based Brillouin spectrometer, we probed the microscopic viscoelasticity of individual red blood cells. These measurements were supplemented by chemically specific measurements using Raman microspectroscopy.
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Earu Banoth Vamshi Krishna Kasula Veerendra Kalyan Jagannadh Sai Siva Gorthi 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(6):610-618
In this work, an optofluidic flow analyzer, which can be used to perform malaria diagnosis at the point‐of‐care is demonstrated. The presented technique is based on quantitative optical absorption measurements carried out on a single cell level for a given population of Human Red Blood Cells (RBCs). By measuring the optical absorption of each RBC, the decrease in the Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration in the cytoplasm of the cell due to the invasion of malarial parasite is detected. Cells are assessed on a single cell basis, as they pass through a microfluidic channel. The proposed technique has been implemented with inexpensive off‐the‐shelf components like laser diode, photo‐detector and a micro‐controller. The ability of the optofluidic flow analyzer to asses about 308,049 cells within 3 minutes has been demonstrated. The presented technique is capable of detecting very low parasitemia levels with high sensitivity.
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Enhancement of optical coherence microscopy in turbid media by an optical parametric amplifier 下载免费PDF全文
Youbo Zhao Haohua Tu Yuan Liu Andrew J. Bower Stephen A. Boppart 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(6):512-521
We report the enhancement in imaging performance of a spectral‐domain optical coherence microscope (OCM) in turbid media by incorporating an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The OPA provides a high level of optical gain to the sample arm, thereby improving the signal‐to‐noise ratio of the OCM by a factor of up to 15 dB. A unique nonlinear confocal gate is automatically formed in the OPA, which enables selective amplification of singly scattered (ballistic) photons against the multiply‐scattered light background. Simultaneous enhancement in both imaging depth and spatial resolution in imaging microstructures in highly light‐scattering media are demonstrated with the combined OPA‐OCM setup.
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Brillouin spectroscopy as a new method of screening for increased CSF total protein during bacterial meningitis 下载免费PDF全文
Zachary Steelman Zhaokai Meng Andrew J. Traverso Vladislav V. Yakovlev 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(5):408-414
Bacterial meningitis is a disease of pronounced clinical significance, especially in the developing world. Immediate treatment with antibiotics is essential, and no single test can provide a conclusive diagnosis. It is well established that elevated total protein in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is associated with bacterial meningitis. Brillouin spectroscopy is a widely used optical technique for noninvasive determination of the elastic moduli of materials. We found that elevated protein levels in CSF alter the fluid elasticity sufficiently to be measurable by Brillouin spectroscopy, with model healthy and diseased fluids distinguishable to marked significance (P = 0.014), which increases with sample concentration by dialysis.
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Analysis of forward and backward Second Harmonic Generation images to probe the nanoscale structure
of collagen within bone and cartilage 下载免费PDF全文
Marie‐Andrée Houle Charles‐André Couture Stéphane Bancelin Jarno Van der Kolk Etienne Auger Cameron Brown Konstantin Popov Lora Ramunno François Légaré 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(11-12):993-1001
Collagen ultrastructure plays a central role in the function of a wide range of connective tissues. Studying collagen structure at the microscopic scale is therefore of considerable interest to understand the mechanisms of tissue pathologies. Here, we use second harmonic generation microscopy to characterize collagen structure within bone and articular cartilage in human knees. We analyze the intensity dependence on polarization and discuss the differences between Forward and Backward images in both tissues. Focusing on articular cartilage, we observe an increase in Forward/Backward ratio from the cartilage surface to the bone. Coupling these results to numerical simulations reveals the evolution of collagen fibril diameter and spatial organization as a function of depth within cartilage.
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An infrared sensor analysing label‐free the secondary structure of the Abeta peptide in presence of complex fluids 下载免费PDF全文
Andreas Nabers Julian Ollesch Jonas Schartner Carsten Kötting Just Genius Ute Haußmann Hans Klafki Jens Wiltfang Klaus Gerwert 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(3):224-234
The secondary structure change of the Abeta peptide to beta‐sheet was proposed as an early event in Alzheimer's disease. The transition may be used for diagnostics of this disease in an early state. We present an Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) sensor modified with a specific antibody to extract minute amounts of Abeta peptide out of a complex fluid. Thereby, the Abeta peptide secondary structure was determined in its physiological aqueous environment by FTIR‐difference‐spectroscopy. The presented results open the door for label‐free Alzheimer diagnostics in cerebrospinal fluid or blood. It can be extended to further neurodegenerative diseases.
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Evaluation of dental enamel caries assessment using Quantitative Light Induced Fluorescence and Optical Coherence Tomography 下载免费PDF全文
Ana Marly Araújo Maia Anderson Zanardi de Freitas Sergio de L. Campello Anderson Stevens Leônidas Gomes Lena Karlsson 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(6):596-602
An in vitro study of morphological alterations between sound dental structure and artificially induced white spot lesions in human teeth, was performed through the loss of fluorescence by Quantitative Light‐Induced Fluorescence (QLF) and the alterations of the light attenuation coefficient by Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). To analyze the OCT images using a commercially available system, a special algorithm was applied, whereas the QLF images were analyzed using the software available in the commercial system employed. When analyzing the sound region against white spot lesions region by QLF, a reduction in the fluorescence intensity was observed, whilst an increase of light attenuation by the OCT system occurred. Comparison of the percentage of alteration between optical properties of sound and artificial enamel caries regions showed that OCT processed images through the attenuation of light enhanced the tooth optical alterations more than fluorescence detected by QLF System.
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In situ non‐destructive measurement of biofilm thickness and topology in an interferometric optical microscope 下载免费PDF全文
Curtis Larimer Jonathan D. Suter George Bonheyo Raymond Shane Addleman 《Journal of biophotonics》2016,9(6):656-666
Biofilms are ubiquitous and impact the environment, human health, dental hygiene, and a wide range of industrial processes. Biofilms are difficult to characterize when fully hydrated, especially in a non‐destructive manner, because of their soft structure and water‐like bulk properties. Herein a method of measuring and monitoring the thickness and topology of live biofilms of using white light interferometry is described. Using this technique, surface morphology, surface roughness, and biofilm thickness were measured over time without while the biofilm continued to grow. The thickness and surface topology of a P. putida biofilm were monitored growing from initial colonization to a mature biofilm. Measured thickness followed expected trends for bacterial growth. Surface roughness also increased over time and was a leading indicator of biofilm growth.
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Synergistic effects of atmospheric pressure plasma‐emitted components on DNA oligomers: a Raman spectroscopic study 下载免费PDF全文
Eugen Edengeiser Jan‐Wilm Lackmann Erik Bründermann Simon Schneider Jan Benedikt Julia E. Bandow Martina Havenith 《Journal of biophotonics》2015,8(11-12):918-924
Cold atmospheric‐pressure plasmas have become of increasing importance in sterilization processes especially with the growing prevalence of multi‐resistant bacteria. Albeit the potential for technological application is obvious, much less is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial inactivation. X‐jet technology separates plasma‐generated reactive particles and photons, thus allowing the investigation of their individual and joint effects on DNA. Raman spectroscopy shows that particles and photons cause different modifications in DNA single and double strands. The treatment with the combination of particles and photons does not only result in cumulative, but in synergistic effects. Profilometry confirms that etching is a minor contributor to the observed DNA damage in vitro.