Strategies for High-Resolution Imaging of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Laparoscopic Nonlinear Microscopy |
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Authors: | Rebecca M Williams Andrea Flesken-Nikitin Lora Hedrick Ellenson Denise C Connolly Thomas C Hamilton Alexander Yu Nikitin Warren R Zipfel |
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Affiliation: | *Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;†Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;‡Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA;§Ovarian Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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Abstract: | Ovarian cancer remains the most frequently lethal of the gynecologic cancers owing to the late detection of this disease. Here, by using human specimens and three mouse models of ovarian cancer, we tested the feasibility of nonlinear imaging approaches, the multiphoton microscopy (MPM) and second harmonic generation (SHG) to serve as complementary tools for ovarian cancer diagnosis. We demonstrate that MPM/SHG of intrinsic tissue emissions allows visualization of unfixed, unsectioned, and unstained tissues at a resolution comparable to that of routinely processed histologic sections. In addition to permitting discrimination between normal and neoplastic tissues according to pathological criteria, the method facilitates morphometric assessment of specimens and detection of very early cellular changes in the ovarian surface epithelium. A red shift in cellular intrinsic fluorescence and collagen structural alterations have been identified as additional cancer-associated changes that are indiscernible by conventional pathologic techniques. Importantly, the feasibility of in vivo laparoscopic MPM/SHG is demonstrated by using a “stick” objective lens. Intravital detection of neoplastic lesions has been further facilitated by low-magnification identification of an indicator for cathepsin activity followed by MPM laparoscopic imaging. Taken together, these results demonstrate that MPM may be translatable to clinical settings as an endoscopic approach suitable for high-resolution optical biopsies as well as a pathology tool for rapid initial assessment of ovarian cancer samples. |
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