Real-time Raman and SRS imaging of living human macrophages reveals cell-to-cell heterogeneity and dynamics of lipid uptake.

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a major public health problem worldwide. Here, we present a quantitative multispectral photoacoustic method for the evaluation of bone pathologies which has significant advantages over pure ultrasonic or pure optical methods as it provides both molecular information and bone mechanical status. This is ...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Steinberg I,Turko N,Levi O,Gannot I,Eyal A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a hybrid imaging modality with high resolution and sensitivity that can be beneficial for cancer staging. Due to insufficient endogenous photoacoustic (PA) contrast, the development of exogenous agents is critical in targeting cancerous tumors. The current study demonstrates the feasibil...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Nguyen VP,Park S,Oh J,Wook Kang H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal lesions of the upper aerodigestive tract usually concern the squamous epithelium of the surface. Many precancerous alterations now designated as potentially malignant are caused by DNA damage resulting from long term exposure to tobacco and alcohol consumption. The distinction from conditions with a similar ph...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Dreyer T,Kreisel M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basidiomycetes, that is, mushroom-type fungi, are known to produce pigments in response to environmental impacts. As antioxidants with a high level of unsaturation, these compounds can neutralize highly oxidative species. In the event of close contact with other microbes, the enzymatically controlled pigment productio...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Tauber JP,Matthäus C,Lenz C,Hoffmeister D,Popp J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfusion and oxygenation are critical parameters of muscle metabolism in health and disease. They have been both the target of many studies, in particular using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). However, difficulties with quantifying NIRS signals have limited a wide dissemination of the method to the clinics. Our ai...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Karlas A,Kallmayer M,Fasoula NA,Liapis E,Bariotakis M,Krönke M,Anastasopoulou M,Reber J,Eckstein HH,Ntziachristos V

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a compact, cost-effective tuned amplifier for frequency-selective amplification of the modulated signal in heterodyne detected nonlinear optical microscopy. Our method improved the signal to noise ratio by an order of magnitude compared to conventional lock-in detection, as demonstrated through stimulated Ra...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Slipchenko MN,Oglesbee RA,Zhang D,Wu W,Cheng JX

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectasia after refractive surgery represents a major concern among refractive surgeons. Corneal abnormalities and preexisting corneal ectasia are the most important risk factors. Corneal topography and central corneal thickness are the factors traditionally screening for in refractive surgery candidates. Study of the a...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Luz A,Lopes B,Salomão M,Ambrósio R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in brain water content has attracted increasing interest, particularly as regards studies of the glymphatic system, which is connected with the complex organization of dural lymphatic vessels, responsible for cleaning tissue. Disturbances of glymphatic circulation are associated with several brain disorde...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Myllylä T,Harju M,Korhonen V,Bykov A,Kiviniemi V,Meglinski I

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectra obtained from cell or tissue specimen have commonly been observed to involve a significant degree of scattering effects, often Mie scattering, which probably overshadows biochemically relevant spectral information by a nonlinear, nonadditive spectral component in Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spec...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Raulf AP,Butke J,Menzen L,Küpper C,Großerueschkamp F,Gerwert K,Mosig A

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate whether OCT topography of the Bowman's layer and artificial intelligence (AI) can result in better diagnosis of forme fruste (FFKC) and clinical keratoconus (KC). Normal (n = 221), FFKC (n = 72) and KC (n = 116) corneas were included. Some of the FFKC and KC patients had the fello...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Chandapura R,Salomão MQ,Ambrósio R Jr,Swarup R,Shetty R,Sinha Roy A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar radiation exposure is recognised to be a significant contributor to the development of skin cancer. Monitoring the simultaneous and consecutive mechanisms of interaction could provide a greater understanding of the process of photocarcinogenesis. This work presents an analysis of the biochemical and morphologica...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Lopez-Gonzalez U,Casey A,J Byrne H

更新日期：2020-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the design and construction of a prototype imaging probe capable of co-registered pulse-echo ultrasound and photoacoustic (optoacoustic) imaging in real time. The probe consists of 36 fibers of 200 micron core diameter each that are distributed around a commercial transvaginal ultrasound transducer, and hou...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Kumavor PD,Alqasemi U,Tavakoli B,Li H,Yang Y,Sun X,Warych E,Zhu Q

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a noninvasive and noncontacting biosensor using Wavelength Modulated Differential Photothermal Radiometry (WM-DPTR) to monitor blood glucose concentration (BGC) through interstitial fluid (ISF) probing in human middle fingers. WM-DPTR works in the interference-free mid-infrared range with differential wavel...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Guo X,Zhang D,Shojaei-Asanjan K,Sivagurunathan K,Melnikov A,Song P,Mandelis A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo visualization of the human lymphatic system is limited by the mode of delivery of tracing agents, depth of field and size of the area examined, and specificity of the cell markers used to distinguish lymphatic endothelium from the blood vessels and the surrounding tissues. These limitations are particularly pr...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Lokmic Z

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc metallized Phthalocyanine (ZnPcSmix ), a potent photosensitizer, is conjugated to gold dendrimer encapsulated nanoparticles (AuDENPs) in order to improve the efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) using MCF-7 breast cancer cells and WS1 fibroblast cells as a control. Both ZnPcSmix and AuDENPs are mixed in a nitro...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Mfouo-Tynga I,Houreld NN,Abrahamse H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the targeted treatment of tumor based on the tumor microenvironment is newly developed. Blood vessels are the key parts in the tumor microenvironment, which is taken as a new visible target for tumor therapy. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM), based on the second harmonic generation and two-photon excited fluore...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Fang N,Wu Z,Wang X,Kang D,Li L,Chen Y,Zheng X,Cai S,Liu X,Chen Z,Tu H,Lin Y,Chen J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved 3D images of very small and moving features in live cells in seconds. We show images of microvilli in live cultured ...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Lanzano L,Digman MA,Fwu P,Giral H,Levi M,Gratton E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel hybrid method which combines sub-wavelength-scale phase measurements and pixel-scale displacement tracking for robust strain mapping in compressional optical coherence elastography is proposed. Unlike majority of OCE methods it does not rely on initial reconstruction of displacements and does not suffer from t...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Zaitsev VY,Matveyev AL,Matveev LA,Gelikonov GV,Gubarkova EV,Gladkova ND,Vitkin A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of dermal beta-carotene can be a good indicator showing the body health. Because, it is involved in production of vitamin A maintaining healthy skin and mucous membranes. Also, it reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases and its antioxidant capacity prevents the formation of cancerous cells. In this wor...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Morovati A,Ansari MA,Tuchin VV

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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 v...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Boutopoulos C,Bergeron E,Meunier M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spahr et al. recently commented on our latest paper "Retinal pulse wave velocity measurement using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography" with a conclusion that the measured retinal pulse wave velocity (rPWV) in our paper was contradictory to theoretical predictions and previously published results. However, th...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Li Q,Li L,Chai X,Zhou C

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plastic optical fibre biosensor based on surface plasmon resonance for the detection of C-reactive protein (CRP) in serum is proposed. The biosensor was integrated into a home-made thermo-stabilized microfluidic system that allows avoiding any thermal and/or mechanical fluctuation and maintaining the best stable con...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Aray A,Chiavaioli F,Arjmand M,Trono C,Tombelli S,Giannetti A,Cennamo N,Soltanolkotabi M,Zeni L,Baldini F

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sun protection factor (SPF) values are currently determined using an invasive procedure, in which the volunteers are irradiated with ultraviolet (UV) light. Non-invasive approaches based on hybrid diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (HDRS) have shown a good correlation with conventional SPF testing. Here, we present ...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Throm CM,Wiora G,Reble C,Schleusener J,Schanzer S,Karrer H,Kolbe L,Khazaka G,Meinke MC,Lademann J

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The class of PEGylated emulsifiers finds broad application in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. We target on one of the categories of polyethylene glycol (PEG) alkyl ethers with different lipophilic and hydrophilic chain length and aim to examine their effects on the skin comprehensively. In this study, we emp...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Liu Y,Lunter DJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel, minimally invasive laser technology for skin rejuvenation by creating isolated microscopic lesions within tissue below the epidermis using laser induced optical breakdown. Using an in-house built prototype device, tightly focused near-infrared laser pulses are used to create optical breakdown in t...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Habbema L,Verhagen R,Van Hal R,Liu Y,Varghese B

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad range of applications of spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) were found to involve samples having only marginal differences in Raman cross-sections between the surface and subsurface targets. We report the results of a feasibility study to evaluate the potential of the approach to identify the presenc...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Khan KM,Dutta SB,Krishna H,Majumder SK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increasing use of in vitro cell culture models that more realistically replicate the three-dimensional (3D) environment found in vivo. Multicellular tumor spheroids (MTS) using cell lines or patient-derived organoids have become an important in vitro drug development tool, where cells are grown in a 3D ...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Jamieson LE,Harrison DJ,Campbell CJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the optical wavelength dependence in quantitative photoacoustic (QPA) assessment of red blood cell (RBC) aggregation and oxygen saturation (sO2 ) during pulsatile blood flow. Experimentally, the pulsatile flow was imaged with a 700 to 900 nm laser using the VevoLAZR. Theoretically, the photoacoustic (PA...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Bok TH,Hysi E,Kolios MC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We combined Michelson-interferometer-based off-axis digital holographic microscopy (DHM) with a common flow cytometry (FCM) arrangement. Utilizing object recognition procedures and holographic autofocusing during the numerical reconstruction of the acquired off-axis holograms, sharply focused quantitative phase images...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Min J,Yao B,Trendafilova V,Ketelhut S,Kastl L,Greve B,Kemper B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lasers/LEDs demonstrate therapeutic effects for a range of biomedical applications. However, a consensus on effective light irradiation parameters and efficient and reliable measurement techniques remain limited. The objective here is to develop, characterise and demonstrate the application of LED arrays in order to p...

journal_title：Journal of biophotonics

authors： Hadis MA,Cooper PR,Milward MR,Gorecki PC,Tarte E,Churm J,Palin WM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00