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Jin Y, Tan Y, Wu J, Ren Z. Lipid droplets: a cellular organelle vital in cancer cells. Cell Death Discov 2023; 9:254. [PMID: 37474495 PMCID: PMC10359296 DOI: 10.1038/s41420-023-01493-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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Lipid droplets (LDs) are cellular organelles comprising a core of neutral lipids (glycerides, sterols) encased within a single phospholipid membrane, responsible for storing surplus lipids and furnishing cellular energy. LDs engage in lipid synthesis, catabolism, and transport processes by interacting with other organelles (e.g., endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria), and they play critical roles in regulating cellular stress and immunity. Recent research has uncovered that an elevated number of LDs is a hallmark of cancer cells, attributable to their enhanced lipid uptake and synthesis capacity, with lipids stored as LDs. Depletion of LDs in cancer cells induces apoptosis, prompting the emergence of small molecule antitumor drugs targeting LDs or key factors (e.g., FASN, SCD1) within the lipid synthesis pathway. Advancements in LD isolation and artificial synthesis have demonstrated their potential applicability in antitumor research. LDs extracted from murine adipose tissue and incubated with lipophilic antitumor drugs yield drug-coated LDs, which promote apoptosis in cancer cells. Furthermore, LDs have been employed as biological lenses to augment the resolution of subcellular structures (microfilaments, microtubules), facilitating the observation of intricate structures within thicker cells, including cancer cells. This review delineates the functional and metabolic mechanisms of LDs in cancer cells and encapsulates recent progress in LD-centered antitumor research, offering novel insights for tumor diagnosis and treatment.
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- Yi Jin
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of the Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, P. R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology of Shandong Province, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of the Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of the Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, P. R. China.
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, P. R. China.
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Rajora S, Butola M, Khare K. 3D reconstruction of unstained weakly scattering cells from a single defocused hologram. APPLIED OPTICS 2023; 62:D146-D156. [PMID: 37132780 DOI: 10.1364/ao.478351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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We investigate the problem of 3D complex field reconstruction corresponding to unstained red blood cells (RBCs) with a single defocused off-axis digital hologram. The main challenge in this problem is the localization of cells to the correct axial range. While investigating the volume recovery problem for a continuous phase object like the RBC, we observe an interesting feature of the backpropagated field that it does not show a clear focusing effect. Therefore, sparsity enforcement within the iterative optimization framework using a single hologram data frame cannot effectively restrict the reconstruction to the true object volume. For phase objects, it is known that the amplitude contrast of the backpropagated object field at the focus plane is minimum. We use this information available in the recovered object field in the hologram plane to device depth-dependent weights that are proportional to the inverse of amplitude contrast. This weight function is employed in the iterative steps of the optimization algorithm to assist the object volume localization. The overall reconstruction process is performed using the mean gradient descent (MGD) framework. Experimental illustrations of 3D volume reconstruction of the healthy as well as malaria-infected RBCs are presented. A test sample of polystyrene microsphere bead is also used to validate the axial localization capability of the proposed iterative technique. The proposed methodology is simple to implement experimentally and provides an approximate tomographic solution, which is axially restricted and consistent with the object field data.
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Kim Y, Kim J, Seo E, Lee SJ. AI-based analysis of 3D position and orientation of red blood cells using a digital in-line holographic microscopy. Biosens Bioelectron 2023; 229:115232. [PMID: 36963327 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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The morphological and mechanical characteristics of red blood cells (RBCs) largely vary depending on the occurrence of hematologic disorders. Variations in the rheological properties of RBCs affect the dynamic motions of RBCs, especially their rotational behavior. However, conventional techniques for measuring the orientation of biconcave-shaped RBCs still have some technical limitations, including complicated optical setups, complex post data processing, and low throughput. In this study, we propose a novel image-based technique for measuring 3D position and orientation of normal RBCs using digital in-line holographic microscopy (DIHM) and artificial intelligence (AI). Formaldehyde-fixed RBCs are immobilized in coagulated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Holographic images of RBCs positioned at various out-of-plane angles are acquired by precisely manipulating the PDMS-trapped RBC sample attached to a 4-axis optical stage. With the aid of deep learning algorithms for data augmentation and regression analysis, the out-of-plane angle of RBCs is directly predicted from the captured holographic images. The 3D position and in-plane angle of RBCs are acquired by employing numerical reconstruction and ellipse detection methods. Combining these digital image processing techniques, the 3D positional and orientational information of each RBC recorded in a single holographic image is measured within 23.5 and 3.07 s, respectively. The proposed AI-based DIHM technique that can extract the 3D position, orientation, and morphology of individual RBCs would be utilized to analyze the dynamic translational and rotational motions of abnormal RBCs with hematologic disorders in shear flows through further research.
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- Youngdo Kim
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea.
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Zhong Y, Yu H, Wen Y, Zhou P, Guo H, Zou W, Lv X, Liu L. Novel Optofluidic Imaging System Integrated with Tunable Microlens Arrays. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:11994-12004. [PMID: 36655899 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c20191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Optofluidic tunable microlens arrays (MLAs) can manipulate and control light propagation using fluids. Lately, their applicability to miniature lab-on-a-chip systems is being extensively researched. However, it is difficult to incorporate 3D MLAs directly in a narrow microfluidic channel using common techniques. This has resulted in limited research on variable focal length imaging with optofluidic 3D MLAs. In this paper, we propose a method for fabricating MLAs in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based microchannels via electrohydrodynamic jet (E-jet) printing to achieve optofluidic tunable MLAs. Using this method, MLAs of diameters 15 to 80 μm can be fabricated in microfluidic channels with widths of 200 and 300 μm. By alternately using solutions with different refractive indices in the microchannel, the optofluidic microlenses exhibit reversible modulation properties while retaining the morphologies and refractive indices of the microlenses. The focal length of the resulting optofluidic chip can have threefold tunability, thereby achieving an imaging depth of approximately 450 μm. This outstanding advantage is useful in observing microspheres and cells flowing in the microfluidic system. Thus, the proposed optofluidic chip exhibits great potential for cell counting and imaging applications.
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- Ya Zhong
- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang110016, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang110016, China
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- Institute of Urban Rail Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu610000, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou450002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang110016, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Northeastern University, Shenyang110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang110016, China
- Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang110016, China
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Běhal J, Pirone D, Sirico D, Bianco V, Mugnano M, Del Giudice D, Cavina B, Kurelac I, Memmolo P, Miccio L, Ferraro P. On monocytes and lymphocytes biolens clustering by in flow holographic microscopy. Cytometry A 2023; 103:251-259. [PMID: 36028475 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.24685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Live cells act as biological lenses and can be employed as real-world optical components in bio-hybrid systems. Imaging at nanoscale, optical tweezers, lithography and also photonic waveguiding are some of the already proven functionalities, boosted by the advantage that cells are fully biocompatible for intra-body applications. So far, various cell types have been studied for this purpose, such as red blood cells, bacterial cells, stem cells and yeast cells. White Blood Cells (WBCs) play a very important role in the regulation of the human body activities and are usually monitored for assessing its health. WBCs can be considered bio-lenses but, to the best of our knowledge, characterization of their optical properties have not been investigated yet. Here, we report for the first time an accurate study of two model classes of WBCs (i.e., monocytes and lymphocytes) by means of a digital holographic microscope coupled with a microfluidic system, assuming WBCs bio-lens characteristics. Thus, quantitative phase maps for many WBCs have been retrieved in flow-cytometry (FC) by achieving a significant statistical analysis to prove the enhancement in differentiation among sphere-like bio-lenses according to their sizes (i.e., diameter d) exploiting intensity parameters of the modulated light in proximity of the cell optical axis. We show that the measure of the low intensity area (S: I z < I th z ) in a fixed plane, is a feasible parameter for cell clustering, while achieving robustness against experimental misalignments and allowing to adjust the measurement sensitivity in post-processing. 2D scatterplots of the identified parameters (d-S) show better differentiation respect to the 1D case. The results show that the optical focusing properties of WBCs allow the clustering of the two populations by means of a mere morphological analysis, thus leading to the new concept of cell-optical-fingerprint avoiding fluorescent dyes. This perspective can open new routes in biomedical sciences, such as the chance to find optical-biomarkers at single cell level for label-free diagnosis.
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- Jaromír Běhal
- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
- Department of Optics, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
- DIETI, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
- Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), Centro di Studio e Ricerca sulle Neoplasie (CSR) Ginecologiche, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Centre for Applied Biomedical Research (CRBA), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), Centro di Studio e Ricerca sulle Neoplasie (CSR) Ginecologiche, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Centre for Applied Biomedical Research (CRBA), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Naples, Italy
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Yanina IY, Dyachenko PA, Abdurashitov AS, Shalin AS, Minin IV, Minin OV, Bulygin AD, Vrazhnov DA, Kistenev YV, Tuchin VV. Light distribution in fat cell layers at physiological temperatures. Sci Rep 2023; 13:1073. [PMID: 36658207 PMCID: PMC9852459 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25012-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Adipose tissue (AT) optical properties for physiological temperatures and in vivo conditions are still insufficiently studied. The AT is composed mainly of packed cells close to spherical shape. It is a possible reason that AT demonstrates a very complicated spatial structure of reflected or transmitted light. It was shown with a cellular tissue phantom, is split into a fan of narrow tracks, originating from the insertion point and representing filament-like light distribution. The development of suitable approaches for describing light propagation in a AT is urgently needed. A mathematical model of the propagation of light through the layers of fat cells is proposed. It has been shown that the sharp local focusing of optical radiation (light localized near the shadow surface of the cells) and its cleavage by coupling whispering gallery modes depends on the optical thickness of the cell layer. The optical coherence tomography numerical simulation and experimental studies results demonstrate the importance of sharp local focusing in AT for understanding its optical properties for physiological conditions and at AT heating.
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- Irina Yu Yanina
- Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya Str., Saratov, Russia, 410012. .,Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.
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- Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya Str., Saratov, Russia, 410012.,Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050
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- Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 3Nobelya Str., Moscow, Russia, 121205
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- Center for Photonics and 2D Materials, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russia.,Institute of Telecommunications, Riga Technical University, 12 Azenes str., LV-1658, Riga, Latvia.,Laboratory of Fiber Optics and Optical Measurements UB-1, Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulyanovsk Branch), 48 Goncharova Str., Ulyanovsk, Russia, 432011
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- School of Nondestructive Testing, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Lenin Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Institute for Strategic Studies, Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, 10 Plahotnogo Str., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630108
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- School of Nondestructive Testing, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Lenin Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Institute for Strategic Studies, Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, 10 Plahotnogo Str., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630108
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- Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Laboratory of Nonlinear Optical Interactions, V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Academician Zuev Sq., Tomsk, Russia, 634055
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- Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Laboratory for Remote Sensing of the Environment, V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Academician Zuev Sq., Tomsk, Russia, 634055
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- Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Laboratory for Remote Sensing of the Environment, V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Academician Zuev Sq., Tomsk, Russia, 634055
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- Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya Str., Saratov, Russia, 410012.,Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin's Av., Tomsk, Russia, 634050.,Laboratory of Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control, FRC "Saratov Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences", 24 Rabochaya Str., Saratov, Russia, 410028.,A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, FRC "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", 33-2, Leninsky Av., Moscow, Russia, 119991
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Wang F, Zhuang Z, Qin Z, Wen B. Movable and Focus-Tunable Lens Based on Electrically Controllable Liquid: A Lattice Boltzmann Study. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:1714. [PMID: 36554119 PMCID: PMC9777668 DOI: 10.3390/e24121714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Adjusting the focal length by changing the liquid interface of the liquid lens has become a potential method. In this paper, the lattice-Boltzmann-electrodynamic (LB-ED) method is used to numerically investigate the zooming process of a movable and focus-tunable electrowetting-on-dielectrics (EWOD) liquid lens by combining the LBM chemical potential model and the electrodynamic model. The LB method is used to solve the Navier-Stokes equation, and the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation is introduced to solve the electric field distribution. The experimental results are consistent with the theoretical results of the Lippmann-Young equation. Through the simulation of a liquid lens zoom driven by EWOD, it is found that the lens changes from a convex lens to a concave lens with the voltage increases. The focal length change rate in the convex lens stage gradually increases with voltage. In the concave lens stage, the focal length change rate is opposite to that in the convex lens stage. During the zooming process, the low-viscosity liquid exhibits oscillation, and the high-viscosity liquid appears as overdamping. Additionally, methods were proposed to accelerate lens stabilization at low and high viscosities, achieving speed improvements of about 30% and 50%, respectively. Simulations of lens motion at different viscosities demonstrate that higher-viscosity liquids require higher voltages to achieve the same movement speed.
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- Fei Wang
- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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Pirone D, Sirico DG, Mugnano M, Del Giudice D, Kurelac I, Cavina B, Memmolo P, Miccio L, Ferraro P. Finding intracellular lipid droplets from the single-cell biolens' signature in a holographic flow-cytometry assay. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:5585-5598. [PMID: 36733743 PMCID: PMC9872869 DOI: 10.1364/boe.460204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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In recent years, intracellular LDs have been discovered to play an important role in several pathologies. Therefore, detection of LDs would provide an in-demand diagnostic tool if coupled with flow-cytometry to give significant statistical analysis and especially if the diagnosis is made in full non-invasive mode. Here we combine the experimental results of in-flow tomographic phase microscopy with a suited numerical simulation to demonstrate that intracellular LDs can be easily detected through a label-free approach based on the direct analysis of the 2D quantitative phase maps recorded by a holographic flow cytometer. In fact, we demonstrate that the presence of LDs affects the optical focusing lensing features of the embracing cell, which can be considered a biological lens. The research was conducted on white blood cells (i.e., lymphocytes and monocytes) and ovarian cancer cells. Results show that the biolens properties of cells can be a rapid biomarker that aids in boosting the diagnosis of LDs-related pathologies by means of the holographic flow-cytometry assay for fast, non-destructive, and high-throughput screening of statistically significant number of cells.
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- Daniele Pirone
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples "Federico II", via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
- contributed equally
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II", Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
- contributed equally
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
- Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 81100 Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), Centro di Studio e Ricerca (CSR) sulle Neoplasie Ginecologiche, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
- Centre for Applied Biomedical Research (CRBA), University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), Centro di Studio e Ricerca (CSR) sulle Neoplasie Ginecologiche, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
- Centre for Applied Biomedical Research (CRBA), University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
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Trukhova A, Pavlova M, Sinitsyna O, Yaminsky I. Microlens-assisted microscopy for biology and medicine. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2022; 15:e202200078. [PMID: 35691020 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202200078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The addition of dielectric transparent microlens in the optical scheme is an effective and at the same time simple and inexpensive way to increase the resolution of a light microscope. For these purposes, spherical and cylindrical microlenses with a diameter of 1-100 μm are usually used. The microlens focuses the light into a narrow beam called a photonic nanojet. An enlarged virtual image is formed, which is captured by the objective of the light microscope. In addition to microscopy, the microlenses are successfully applied to amplify optical signals, increase the trapping force of optical tweezers and are used in microsurgery. This review considers the design and principle of microlens-assisted microscopes. Taking into account the advantages of the super-resolution optical methods for research in life science, the examples of the use of the microlenses in biomedical practice are discussed in detail.
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- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Tian P, He L, Guo X, Ma Z, Song R, Liao X, Gan F. Two-Step Converging Spherical Wave Diffracted at a Circular Aperture of Digital In-Line Holography. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:1284. [PMID: 36014206 PMCID: PMC9415596 DOI: 10.3390/mi13081284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The aspheric light emitted from a pinhole restrains the reconstruction quality of a digital in-line hologram. Herein, the Fresnel-diffracted spot from the first step converging spherical wave diffracted at a rough circular aperture is collimated and expanded to generate an even plane wave, which is converged again by an objective lens and matching a minimum aperture while the central spot is varying from light to dark. We observed that the collected background hologram is filled with a round spot with high contrast as an ideal spherical wave. The resolution board and biology experimental results demonstrated a distinctively reconstructed image without any image processing in a single exposure. The adjustable field of view and magnification, single exposure, and noncontact make it suitable for an online microscope.
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Bykov A, Tuchin V, Meglinski I. Multiplexed spatially-focused localization of light in adipose biological tissues. Sci Rep 2022; 12:9711. [PMID: 35690671 PMCID: PMC9188595 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14350-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Last decades the effects of localization and focusing of light in turbid randomly inhomogeneous tissue-like scattering medium have been attracting a particular attention. Weak localization of light in disordered and weakly ordered biological tissue, polarization memory effect, correlations in transmission matrices, focusing light by wavefronts shaping have been widely exploited. Here, we represent an experimentally observed and theoretically confirmed new type of spatial localization of light within biological tissues. General description of the observed phenomenon based on Monte Carlo ray tracing model is provided. We find that innate body arrangements of individual adipocytes can act as a cascade of quasi-ordered microscale lenses confining propagation of light within adipose tissues similar to lens lightguides. The observed spatially-resolved longitudinal multi-focusing of light within disordered adipose biological tissues can naturally lead greater spatial control and enhance light-tissue interactions.
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- Alexander Bykov
- Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
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- Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia.,Laboratory of Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia.,Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.,Institute of Clinical Medicine N.V. Sklifosovsky, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.,College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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Chen X, Li H, Wu T, Gong Z, Guo J, Li Y, Li B, Ferraro P, Zhang Y. Optical-force-controlled red-blood-cell microlenses for subwavelength trapping and imaging. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:2995-3004. [PMID: 35774333 PMCID: PMC9203105 DOI: 10.1364/boe.457700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We demonstrate that red blood cells (RBCs), with an adjustable focusing effect controlled by optical forces, can act as bio-microlenses for trapping and imaging subwavelength objects. By varying the laser power injected into a tapered fiber probe, the shape of a swelled RBC can be changed from spherical to ellipsoidal by the optical forces, thus adjusting the focal length of such bio-microlens in a range from 3.3 to 6.5 µm. An efficient optical trapping and a simultaneous fluorescence detecting of a 500-nm polystyrene particle have been realized using the RBC microlens. Assisted by the RBC microlens, a subwavelength imaging has also been achieved, with a magnification adjustable from 1.6× to 2×. The RBC bio-microlenses may offer new opportunities for the development of fully biocompatible light-driven devices in diagnosis of blood disease.
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- Xixi Chen
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, 510632 Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems «E. Caianiello», Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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Jiang S, Guo C, Wang T, Liu J, Song P, Zhang T, Wang R, Feng B, Zheng G. Blood-Coated Sensor for High-Throughput Ptychographic Cytometry on a Blu-ray Disc. ACS Sens 2022; 7:1058-1067. [PMID: 35393855 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c02704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The Blu-ray drive is an engineering masterpiece that integrates disc rotation, pickup head translation, and three lasers in a compact and portable format. Here, we integrate a blood-coated image sensor with a modified Blu-ray drive for high-throughput cytometric analysis of various biospecimens. In this device, samples are mounted on the rotating Blu-ray disc and illuminated by the built-in lasers from the pickup head. The resulting coherent diffraction patterns are then recorded by the blood-coated image sensor. The rich spatial features of the blood-cell monolayer help down-modulate the object information for sensor detection, thus forming a high-resolution computational biolens with a theoretically unlimited field of view. With the acquired data, we develop a lensless coherent diffraction imaging modality termed rotational ptychography for image reconstruction. We show that our device can resolve the 435 nm line width on the resolution target and has a field of view only limited by the size of the Blu-ray disc. To demonstrate its applications, we perform high-throughput urinalysis by locating disease-related calcium oxalate crystals over the entire microscope slide. We also quantify different types of cells on a blood smear with an acquisition speed of ∼10,000 cells per second. For in vitro experiments, we monitor live bacterial cultures over the entire Petri dish with single-cell resolution. Using biological cells as a computational lens could enable new intriguing imaging devices for point-of-care diagnostics. Modifying a Blu-ray drive with the blood-coated sensor further allows the spread of high-throughput optical microscopy from well-equipped laboratories to citizen scientists worldwide.
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- Shaowei Jiang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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Grant-Jacob JA, Praeger M, Eason R, Mills B. Generating images of hydrated pollen grains using deep learning. IOP SCINOTES 2022. [DOI: 10.1088/2633-1357/ac6780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Pollen grains dehydrate during their development and following their departure from the host stigma. Since the size and shape of a pollen grain can be dependent on environmental conditions, being able to predict both of these factors for hydrated pollen grains from their dehydrated state could be beneficial in the fields of climate science, agriculture, and palynology. Here, we use deep learning to transform images of dehydrated Ranunculus pollen grains into images of hydrated Ranunculus pollen grains. We also then use a deep learning neural network that was trained on experimental images of different genera of pollen grains to identify the hydrated pollen grains from the generated transformed images, to test the accuracy of the image generation neural network. This pilot work demonstrates the first steps needed towards creating a general deep learning-based rehydration model that could be useful in understanding and predicting pollen morphology.
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Köllisch G, Solis FV, Obermann HL, Eckert J, Müller T, Vierbuchen T, Rickmeyer T, Muche S, Przyborski JM, Heine H, Kaufmann A, Baumeister S, Lingelbach K, Bauer S. TLR8 is activated by 5'-methylthioinosine, a Plasmodium falciparum-derived intermediate of the purine salvage pathway. Cell Rep 2022; 39:110691. [PMID: 35417716 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The innate immune recognition of the malaria-causing pathogen Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) is not fully explored. Here, we identify the nucleoside 5'-methylthioinosine (MTI), a Plasmodium-specific intermediate of the purine salvage pathway, as a pathogen-derived Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonist. Co-incubation of MTI with the TLR8 enhancer poly(dT) as well as synthetic or P. falciparum-derived RNA strongly increase its stimulatory activity. Of note, MTI generated from methylthioadenosine (MTA) by P. falciparum lysates activates TLR8 when MTI metabolism is inhibited by immucillin targeting the purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PfPNP). Importantly, P. falciparum-infected red blood cells incubated with MTI or cultivated with MTA and immucillin lead to TLR8-dependent interleukin-6 (IL-6) production in human monocytes. Our data demonstrate that the nucleoside MTI is a natural human TLR8 ligand with possible in vivo relevance for innate sensing of P. falciparum.
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- Gabriele Köllisch
- Department of Parasitology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology, Philipps University Marburg, BMFZ, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Parasitology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology und Hygiene, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Innate Immunity, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Interdisciplinary Research Center, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Innate Immunity, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology, Philipps University Marburg, BMFZ, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Parasitology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Parasitology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology, Philipps University Marburg, BMFZ, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
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Zhao X, Chen Y, Guo Z, Zhou Y, Guo J, Liu Z, Zhang X, Xiao L, Fei Y, Wu X. Tunable optofluidic microbubble lens. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:8317-8329. [PMID: 35299575 DOI: 10.1364/oe.453555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Optofluidic microlenses are one of the crucial components in many miniature lab-on-chip systems. However, many optofluidic microlenses are fabricated through complex micromachining and tuned by high-precision actuators. We propose a kind of tunable optofluidic microbubble lens that is made by the fuse-and-blow method with a fiber fusion splicer. The optical focusing properties of the microlens can be tuned by changing the refractive index of the liquid inside. The focal spot size is 2.8 µm and the focal length is 13.7 µm, which are better than those of other tunable optofluidic microlenses. The imaging capability of the optofluidic microbubble lens is demonstrated under a resolution test target and the imaging resolution can reach 1 µm. The results indicate that the optofluidic microbubble lens possesses good focusing properties and imaging capability for many applications, such as cell counting, optical trapping, spatial light coupling, beam shaping and imaging.
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Pirone D, Sirico D, Miccio L, Bianco V, Mugnano M, Ferraro P, Memmolo P. Speeding up reconstruction of 3D tomograms in holographic flow cytometry via deep learning. LAB ON A CHIP 2022; 22:793-804. [PMID: 35076055 DOI: 10.1039/d1lc01087e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Tomographic flow cytometry by digital holography is an emerging imaging modality capable of collecting multiple views of moving and rotating cells with the aim of recovering their refractive index distribution in 3D. Although this modality allows us to access high-resolution imaging with high-throughput, the huge amount of time-lapse holographic images to be processed (hundreds of digital holograms per cell) constitutes the actual bottleneck. This prevents the system from being suitable for lab-on-a-chip platforms in real-world applications, where fast analysis of measured data is mandatory. Here we demonstrate a significant speeding-up reconstruction of phase-contrast tomograms by introducing in the processing pipeline a multi-scale fully-convolutional context aggregation network. Although it was originally developed in the context of semantic image analysis, we demonstrate for the first time that it can be successfully adapted to a holographic lab-on-chip platform for achieving 3D tomograms through a faster computational process. We trained the network with input-output image pairs to reproduce the end-to-end holographic reconstruction process, i.e. recovering quantitative phase maps (QPMs) of single cells from their digital holograms. Then, the sequence of QPMs of the same rotating cell is used to perform the tomographic reconstruction. The proposed approach significantly reduces the computational time for retrieving tomograms, thus making them available in a few seconds instead of tens of minutes, while essentially preserving the high-content information of tomographic data. Moreover, we have accomplished a compact deep convolutional neural network parameterization that can fit into on-chip SRAM and a small memory footprint, thus demonstrating its possible exploitation to provide onboard computations for lab-on-chip devices with low processing hardware resources.
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- Daniele Pirone
- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
- DIETI, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples "Federico II", via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
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Xie Y, Liu X. Multifunctional manipulation of red blood cells using optical tweezers. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2022; 15:e202100315. [PMID: 34773382 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202100315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Serving as natural vehicles to deliver oxygen throughout the whole body, red blood cells (RBCs) have been regarded as important indicators for biomedical analysis and clinical diagnosis. Various diseases can be induced due to the dysfunction of RBCs. Hence, a flexible tool is required to perform precise manipulation and quantitative characterization of their physiological mechanisms and viscoelastic properties. Optical tweezers have emerged as potential candidates due to their noncontact manipulation and femtonewton-precision measurements. This review aimed to highlight the recent advances in the multifunctional manipulation of RBCs using optical tweezers, including controllable deformation, dynamic stretching, RBC aggregation, blood separation and Raman characterization. Further, great attentions have been focused on the precise assembly of functional biophotonics devices with trapped RBCs, and a brief overview was offered for the growing interests to manipulate RBCs in vivo.
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- Yanzheng Xie
- Jiangsu Vocational College of Medicine, Yancheng, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Rodrigues de Mercado R, van Hoorn H, de Valois M, Backendorf C, Eckert J, Schmidt T. Characterization of cell-induced astigmatism in high-resolution imaging. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:464-473. [PMID: 35154885 PMCID: PMC8803036 DOI: 10.1364/boe.444950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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High-resolution and super-resolution techniques become more frequently used in thick, inhomogeneous samples. In particular for imaging life cells and tissue in which one wishes to observe a biological process at minimal interference and in the natural environment, sample inhomogeneities are unavoidable. Yet sample-inhomogeneities are paralleled by refractive index variations, for example between the cell organelles and the surrounding medium, that will result in the refraction of light, and therefore lead to sample-induced astigmatism. Astigmatism in turn will result in positional inaccuracies of observations that are at the heart of all super-resolution techniques. Here we introduce a simple model and define a figure-of-merit that allows one to quickly assess the importance of astigmatism for a given experimental setting. We found that astigmatism caused by the cell's nucleus can easily lead to aberrations up to hundreds of nanometers, well beyond the accuracy of all super-resolution techniques. The astigmatism generated by small objects, like bacteria or vesicles, appear to be small enough to be of any significance in typical super-resolution experimentation.
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerligh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerligh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerligh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerligh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Chen X, Wu T, Gong Z, Guo J, Liu X, Zhang Y, Li Y, Ferraro P, Li B. Lipid droplets as endogenous intracellular microlenses. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:242. [PMID: 34873142 PMCID: PMC8648767 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00687-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2021] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Using a single biological element as a photonic component with well-defined features has become a new intriguing paradigm in biophotonics. Here we show that endogenous lipid droplets in the mature adipose cells can behave as fully biocompatible microlenses to strengthen the ability of microscopic imaging as well as detecting intra- and extracellular signals. By the assistance of biolenses made of the lipid droplets, enhanced fluorescence imaging of cytoskeleton, lysosomes, and adenoviruses has been achieved. At the same time, we demonstrated that the required excitation power can be reduced by up to 73%. The lipidic microlenses are finely manipulated by optical tweezers in order to address targets and perform their real-time imaging inside the cells. An efficient detecting of fluorescence signal of cancer cells in extracellular fluid was accomplished due to the focusing effect of incident light by the lipid droplets. The lipid droplets acting as endogenous intracellular microlenses open the intriguing route for a multifunctional biocompatible optics tool for biosensing, endoscopic imaging, and single-cell diagnosis.
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- Xixi Chen
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, 510632, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China.
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China.
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- CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems «E. Caianiello», Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy.
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443, Guangzhou, China.
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Jiang C, Yue H, Yan B, Dong T, Cui X, Chen P, Wang Z. Label-free non-invasive subwavelength-resolution imaging using yeast cells as biological lenses. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 12:7113-7121. [PMID: 34858703 PMCID: PMC8606145 DOI: 10.1364/boe.437965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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There is a growing interest to use live cells to replace the widely used non-biological microsphere lenses. In this work, we demonstrate the use of yeast cells for such imaging purpose. Using fiber-based optical trapping technique, we trap a chain of three yeast cells and bring them to the vicinity of imaging objects. These yeast cells work as near-field magnifying lenses and simultaneously pick up the sub-diffraction information of the nanoscale objects under each cell and project them into the far-field. The experimental results demonstrated that Blu-ray disc of 100 nm feature can be clearly resolved in a parallel manner by each cell.
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- Chunlei Jiang
- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
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- School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT, UK
- Center of Optics Health, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 88 Keling Street, Suzhou Jiangsu, 215163, China
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
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- College of Computer and Information Technology, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
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- School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT, UK
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Javidi B, Carnicer A, Anand A, Barbastathis G, Chen W, Ferraro P, Goodman JW, Horisaki R, Khare K, Kujawinska M, Leitgeb RA, Marquet P, Nomura T, Ozcan A, Park Y, Pedrini G, Picart P, Rosen J, Saavedra G, Shaked NT, Stern A, Tajahuerce E, Tian L, Wetzstein G, Yamaguchi M. Roadmap on digital holography [Invited]. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:35078-35118. [PMID: 34808951 DOI: 10.1364/oe.435915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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This Roadmap article on digital holography provides an overview of a vast array of research activities in the field of digital holography. The paper consists of a series of 25 sections from the prominent experts in digital holography presenting various aspects of the field on sensing, 3D imaging and displays, virtual and augmented reality, microscopy, cell identification, tomography, label-free live cell imaging, and other applications. Each section represents the vision of its author to describe the significant progress, potential impact, important developments, and challenging issues in the field of digital holography.
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Numerical Investigation of a Designed-Inlet Optofluidic Beam Splitter for Split-Angle and Transmission Improvement. MICROMACHINES 2021; 12:mi12101200. [PMID: 34683248 PMCID: PMC8540226 DOI: 10.3390/mi12101200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The beam splitter is one of the important elements in optical waveguide circuits. To improve the performance of an optofluidic beam splitter, a microchannel including a two-stage main channel with divergent side walls and two pairs of inlet channels is proposed. Besides, the height of the inlets injected with cladding fluid is set to be less than the height of other parts of the microchannel. When we inject calcium chloride solution (cladding fluid) and deionized water (core fluid) into the inlet channels, the gradient refractive index (GRIN) developed in fluids flowing through the microchannel splits the incident light beam into two beams with a larger split angle. Moreover, the designed inlets yield a GRIN distribution which increases the light collected around the middle horizontal line on the objective plane, and so enhances the transmission efficiency of the device. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed beam splitter, we use polydimethylsiloxane to fabricate the microchannel. The results obtained by simulation and experiment are compared to show the effectiveness of the device and the validity of numerical simulation. The influence of the microchannel geometry and the flow rate ratio on the performance of the proposed beam splitter is investigated.
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Kaza N, Ojaghi A, Robles FE. Hemoglobin quantification in red blood cells via dry mass mapping based on UV absorption. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2021; 26:JBO-210112LR. [PMID: 34378368 PMCID: PMC8353376 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.26.8.086501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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SIGNIFICANCE The morphological properties and hemoglobin (Hb) content of red blood cells (RBCs) are essential biomarkers to diagnose or monitor various types of hematological disorders. Label-free mass mapping approaches enable accurate Hb quantification from individual cells, serving as promising alternatives to conventional hematology analyzers. Deep ultraviolet (UV) microscopy is one such technique that allows high-resolution, molecular imaging, and absorption-based mass mapping. AIM To compare UV absorption-based mass mapping at four UV wavelengths and understand variations across wavelengths and any assumptions necessary for accurate Hb quantification. APPROACH Whole blood smears are imaged with a multispectral UV microscopy system, and the RBCs' dry masses are computed. This approach is compared to quantitative phase imaging-based mass mapping using data from an interferometric UV imaging system. RESULTS Consistent Hb mass and mean corpuscular Hb values are obtained at all wavelengths, with the precision of the single-cell mass measurements being nearly identical at 220, 260, and 280 nm but slightly lower at 300 nm. CONCLUSIONS A full hematological analysis (including white blood cell identification and characterization, and Hb quantification) may be achieved using a single UV illumination wavelength, thereby improving the speed and cost-effectiveness.
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- Nischita Kaza
- Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Pan T, Lu D, Xin H, Li B. Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:124. [PMID: 34108445 PMCID: PMC8190087 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00561-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The rapid development of biophotonics and biomedical sciences makes a high demand on photonic structures to be interfaced with biological systems that are capable of manipulating light at small scales for sensitive detection of biological signals and precise imaging of cellular structures. However, conventional photonic structures based on artificial materials (either inorganic or toxic organic) inevitably show incompatibility and invasiveness when interfacing with biological systems. The design of biophotonic probes from the abundant natural materials, particularly biological entities such as virus, cells and tissues, with the capability of multifunctional light manipulation at target sites greatly increases the biocompatibility and minimizes the invasiveness to biological microenvironment. In this review, advances in biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging are reviewed. We emphatically and systematically describe biological entities-based photonic probes that offer appropriate optical properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability with different optical functions from light generation, to light transportation and light modulation. Three representative biophotonic probes, i.e., biological lasers, cell-based biophotonic waveguides and bio-microlenses, are reviewed with applications for bio-detection and imaging. Finally, perspectives on future opportunities and potential improvements of biophotonic probes are also provided.
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- Ting Pan
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China.
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China.
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Cho SY, Gong X, Koman VB, Kuehne M, Moon SJ, Son M, Lew TTS, Gordiichuk P, Jin X, Sikes HD, Strano MS. Cellular lensing and near infrared fluorescent nanosensor arrays to enable chemical efflux cytometry. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3079. [PMID: 34035262 PMCID: PMC8149711 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23416-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Nanosensors have proven to be powerful tools to monitor single cells, achieving spatiotemporal precision even at molecular level. However, there has not been way of extending this approach to statistically relevant numbers of living cells. Herein, we design and fabricate nanosensor array in microfluidics that addresses this limitation, creating a Nanosensor Chemical Cytometry (NCC). nIR fluorescent carbon nanotube array is integrated along microfluidic channel through which flowing cells is guided. We can utilize the flowing cell itself as highly informative Gaussian lenses projecting nIR profiles and extract rich information. This unique biophotonic waveguide allows for quantified cross-correlation of biomolecular information with various physical properties and creates label-free chemical cytometer for cellular heterogeneity measurement. As an example, the NCC can profile the immune heterogeneities of human monocyte populations at attomolar sensitivity in completely non-destructive and real-time manner with rate of ~600 cells/hr, highest range demonstrated to date for state-of-the-art chemical cytometry.
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- Soo-Yeon Cho
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Jiao Y, He YR, Kandel ME, Liu X, Lu W, Popescu G. Computational interference microscopy enabled by deep learning. APL PHOTONICS 2021; 6:046103. [PMID: 35308602 PMCID: PMC8931864 DOI: 10.1063/5.0041901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has been widely applied in characterizing cells and tissues. Spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) is a highly sensitive QPI method due to its partially coherent illumination and common path interferometry geometry. However, SLIM's acquisition rate is limited because of the four-frame phase-shifting scheme. On the other hand, off-axis methods such as diffraction phase microscopy (DPM) allow for single-shot QPI. However, the laser-based DPM system is plagued by spatial noise due to speckles and multiple reflections. In a parallel development, deep learning was proven valuable in the field of bioimaging, especially due to its ability to translate one form of contrast into another. Here, we propose using deep learning to produce synthetic, SLIM-quality, and high-sensitivity phase maps from DPM using single-shot images as the input. We used an inverted microscope with its two ports connected to the DPM and SLIM modules such that we have access to the two types of images on the same field of view. We constructed a deep learning model based on U-net and trained on over 1000 pairs of DPM and SLIM images. The model learned to remove the speckles in laser DPM and overcame the background phase noise in both the test set and new data. The average peak signal-to-noise ratio, Pearson correlation coefficient, and structural similarity index measure were 29.97, 0.79, and 0.82 for the test dataset. Furthermore, we implemented the neural network inference into the live acquisition software, which now allows a DPM user to observe in real-time an extremely low-noise phase image. We demonstrated this principle of computational interference microscopy imaging using blood smears, as they contain both erythrocytes and leukocytes, under static and dynamic conditions.
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- Yuheng Jiao
- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed:
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Pirone D, Memmolo P, Merola F, Miccio L, Mugnano M, Capozzoli A, Curcio C, Liseno A, Ferraro P. Rolling angle recovery of flowing cells in holographic tomography exploiting the phase similarity. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:A277-A284. [PMID: 33690379 DOI: 10.1364/ao.404376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Holographic tomography allows the 3D mapping of the refractive index of biological samples thanks to reconstruction methods based on the knowledge of illumination directions or rotation angles of the imaged sample. Recently, phase contrast tomographic flow cytometry by digital holography has been demonstrated to reconstruct the three-dimensional refractive index distribution of single cells while they are flowing along microfluidic channels. In this system, the illumination direction is fixed while the sample's rotation is not deterministically known a priori but induced by hydrodynamic forces. We propose here a technique to retrieve the rolling angles, based on a new phase images similarity metric that is capable of identifying a cell's orientations from its 3D positioning while it is flowing along the microfluidic channel. The method is experimentally tested and also validated through appropriate numerical simulations. We provide demonstration of concept by achieving reconstruction of breast cancer cells tomography.
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Polonschii C, Gheorghiu M, David S, Gáspár S, Melinte S, Majeed H, Kandel ME, Popescu G, Gheorghiu E. High-resolution impedance mapping using electrically activated quantitative phase imaging. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:20. [PMID: 33479199 PMCID: PMC7820407 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-020-00461-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Retrieving electrical impedance maps at the nanoscale rapidly via nondestructive inspection with a high signal-to-noise ratio is an unmet need, likely to impact various applications from biomedicine to energy conversion. In this study, we develop a multimodal functional imaging instrument that is characterized by the dual capability of impedance mapping and phase quantitation, high spatial resolution, and low temporal noise. To achieve this, we advance a quantitative phase imaging system, referred to as epi-magnified image spatial spectrum microscopy combined with electrical actuation, to provide complementary maps of the optical path and electrical impedance. We demonstrate our system with high-resolution maps of optical path differences and electrical impedance variations that can distinguish nanosized, semi-transparent, structured coatings involving two materials with relatively similar electrical properties. We map heterogeneous interfaces corresponding to an indium tin oxide layer exposed by holes with diameters as small as ~550 nm in a titanium (dioxide) over-layer deposited on a glass support. We show that electrical modulation during the phase imaging of a macro-electrode is decisive for retrieving electrical impedance distributions with submicron spatial resolution and beyond the limitations of electrode-based technologies (surface or scanning technologies). The findings, which are substantiated by a theoretical model that fits the experimental data very well enable achieving electro-optical maps with high spatial and temporal resolutions. The virtues and limitations of the novel optoelectrochemical method that provides grounds for a wider range of electrically modulated optical methods for measuring the electric field locally are critically discussed.
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- International Centre of Biodynamics, 060101, Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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- International Centre of Biodynamics, 060101, Bucharest, Romania.
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Kandel ME, He YR, Lee YJ, Chen THY, Sullivan KM, Aydin O, Saif MTA, Kong H, Sobh N, Popescu G. Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for measuring dry mass changes in sub-cellular compartments. Nat Commun 2020; 11:6256. [PMID: 33288761 PMCID: PMC7721808 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20062-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Due to its specificity, fluorescence microscopy has become a quintessential imaging tool in cell biology. However, photobleaching, phototoxicity, and related artifacts continue to limit fluorescence microscopy's utility. Recently, it has been shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can transform one form of contrast into another. We present phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS), a combination of quantitative phase imaging and AI, which provides information about unlabeled live cells with high specificity. Our imaging system allows for automatic training, while inference is built into the acquisition software and runs in real-time. Applying the computed fluorescence maps back to the quantitative phase imaging (QPI) data, we measured the growth of both nuclei and cytoplasm independently, over many days, without loss of viability. Using a QPI method that suppresses multiple scattering, we measured the dry mass content of individual cell nuclei within spheroids. In its current implementation, PICS offers a versatile quantitative technique for continuous simultaneous monitoring of individual cellular components in biological applications where long-term label-free imaging is desirable.
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- Mikhail E Kandel
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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Balaj RV, Zarzar LD. Reconfigurable complex emulsions: Design, properties, and applications. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0028606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Rebecca V. Balaj
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Miccio L, Memmolo P, Merola F, Mugnano M, Ferraro P. Optobiology: live cells in optics and photonics. JPHYS PHOTONICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/abac19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Kumar S, Ram R, Sarkar A, DasGupta S, Chakraborty S. Rapid determination of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) by an electrically driven blood droplet biosensor. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2020; 14:064108. [PMID: 33312329 PMCID: PMC7710385 DOI: 10.1063/5.0026332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In healthcare practice, the sedimentation rate of red blood cells (erythrocytes) is a widely used clinical parameter for screening of several ailments such as stroke, infectious diseases, and malignancy. In a traditional pathological setting, the total time taken for evaluating this parameter varies typically from 1 to 2 h. Furthermore, the volume of human blood to be drawn for each test, following a gold standard laboratory technique (alternatively known as the Westergren method), varies from 4 to 5 ml. Circumventing the above constraints, here we propose a rapid (∼1 min) and highly energy efficient method for the simultaneous determination of hematocrit and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) on a microfluidic chip, deploying electrically driven spreading of a tiny drop of blood sample (∼8 μl). Our unique approach estimates these parameters by correlating the same with the time taken by the droplet to spread over a given radius, reproducing the results from more elaborate laboratory settings to a satisfactory extent. Our novel methodology is equally applicable for determining higher ranges of ESR such as high concentration of bilirubin and samples corresponding to patients with anemia and patients with some severe inflammation. Furthermore, the minimal fabrication steps involved in the process, along with the rapidity and inexpensiveness of the test, render the suitability of the strategy in extreme point-of-care settings.
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- Sumit Kumar
- Advanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India
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- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed:. Telephone: +913222282990. Fax: +913222282278
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Chen X, Luo P, Hu C, Yan S, Lu D, Li Y, Chu K, Smith ZJ. Nanometer precise red blood cell sizing using a cost-effective quantitative dark field imaging system. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 11:5950-5966. [PMID: 33149998 PMCID: PMC7587267 DOI: 10.1364/boe.405510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Because of the bulk, complexity, calibration requirements, and need for operator training, most current flow-based blood counting devices are not appropriate for field use. Standard imaging methods could be much more compact, inexpensive, and with minimal calibration requirements. However, due to the diffraction limit, imaging lacks the nanometer precision required to measure red blood cell volumes. To address this challenge, we utilize Mie scattering, which can measure nanometer-scale morphological information from cells, in a dark-field imaging geometry. The approach consists of a custom-built dark-field scattering microscope with symmetrically oblique illumination at a precisely defined angle to record wide-field images of diluted and sphered blood samples. Scattering intensities of each cell under three wavelengths are obtained by segmenting images via digital image processing. These scattering intensities are then used to determine size and hemoglobin information via Mie theory and machine learning. Validation on 90 clinical blood samples confirmed the ability to obtain mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and red cell distribution width (RDW) with high accuracy. Simulations based on historical data suggest that an instrument with the accuracy achieved in this study could be used for widespread anemia screening.
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- Xiaoya Chen
- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Scientific Instrumentation of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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Miccio L, Cimmino F, Kurelac I, Villone MM, Bianco V, Memmolo P, Merola F, Mugnano M, Capasso M, Iolascon A, Maffettone PL, Ferraro P. Perspectives on liquid biopsy for label‐free detection of “circulating tumor cells” through intelligent lab‐on‐chips. VIEW 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/viw.20200034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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- Lisa Miccio
- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche Università di Bologna Bologna Italy
- Centro di Ricerca Biomedica Applicata (CRBA) Università di Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate Naples Italy
- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Naples Italy
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- CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate Naples Italy
- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Naples Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- CNR‐ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems E. Caianiello Pozzuoli Italy
- NEAPoLIS, Numerical and Experimental Advanced Program on Liquids and Interface Systems Joint Research Center CNR ‐ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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Deep learning-based hologram generation using a white light source. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8977. [PMID: 32488035 PMCID: PMC7265409 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65716-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Digital holographic microscopy enables the recording of sample holograms which contain 3D volumetric information. However, additional optical elements, such as partially or fully coherent light source and a pinhole, are required to induce diffraction and interference. Here, we present a deep neural network based on generative adversarial network (GAN) to perform image transformation from a defocused bright-field (BF) image acquired from a general white light source to a holographic image. Training image pairs of 11,050 for image conversion were gathered by using a hybrid BF and hologram imaging technique. The performance of the trained network was evaluated by comparing generated and ground truth holograms of microspheres and erythrocytes distributed in 3D. Holograms generated from BF images through the trained GAN showed enhanced image contrast with 3-5 times increased signal-to-noise ratio compared to ground truth holograms and provided 3D positional information and light scattering patterns of the samples. The developed GAN-based method is a promising mean for dynamic analysis of microscale objects with providing detailed 3D positional information and monitoring biological samples precisely even though conventional BF microscopic setting is utilized.
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Bogdanova A, Kaestner L, Simionato G, Wickrema A, Makhro A. Heterogeneity of Red Blood Cells: Causes and Consequences. Front Physiol 2020; 11:392. [PMID: 32457644 PMCID: PMC7221019 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Mean values of hematological parameters are currently used in the clinical laboratory settings to characterize red blood cell properties. Those include red blood cell indices, osmotic fragility test, eosin 5-maleimide (EMA) test, and deformability assessment using ektacytometry to name a few. Diagnosis of hereditary red blood cell disorders is complemented by identification of mutations in distinct genes that are recognized "molecular causes of disease." The power of these measurements is clinically well-established. However, the evidence is growing that the available information is not enough to understand the determinants of severity of diseases and heterogeneity in manifestation of pathologies such as hereditary hemolytic anemias. This review focuses on an alternative approach to assess red blood cell properties based on heterogeneity of red blood cells and characterization of fractions of cells with similar properties such as density, hydration, membrane loss, redox state, Ca2+ levels, and morphology. Methodological approaches to detect variance of red blood cell properties will be presented. Causes of red blood cell heterogeneity include cell age, environmental stress as well as shear and metabolic stress, and multiple other factors. Heterogeneity of red blood cell properties is also promoted by pathological conditions that are not limited to the red blood cells disorders, but inflammatory state, metabolic diseases and cancer. Therapeutic interventions such as splenectomy and transfusion as well as drug administration also impact the variance in red blood cell properties. Based on the overview of the studies in this area, the possible applications of heterogeneity in red blood cell properties as prognostic and diagnostic marker commenting on the power and selectivity of such markers are discussed.
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- Anna Bogdanova
- Red Blood Cell Research Group, Vetsuisse Faculty, The Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZHIP), Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics, Dynamics of Fluids, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Experimental Physics, Dynamics of Fluids, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Red Blood Cell Research Group, Vetsuisse Faculty, The Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZHIP), Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Xiong R, Luan J, Kang S, Ye C, Singamaneni S, Tsukruk VV. Biopolymeric photonic structures: design, fabrication, and emerging applications. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:983-1031. [PMID: 31960001 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs01007b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Biological photonic structures can precisely control light propagation, scattering, and emission via hierarchical structures and diverse chemistry, enabling biophotonic applications for transparency, camouflaging, protection, mimicking and signaling. Corresponding natural polymers are promising building blocks for constructing synthetic multifunctional photonic structures owing to their renewability, biocompatibility, mechanical robustness, ambient processing conditions, and diverse surface chemistry. In this review, we provide a summary of the light phenomena in biophotonic structures found in nature, the selection of corresponding biopolymers for synthetic photonic structures, the fabrication strategies for flexible photonics, and corresponding emerging photonic-related applications. We introduce various photonic structures, including multi-layered, opal, and chiral structures, as well as photonic networks in contrast to traditionally considered light absorption and structural photonics. Next, we summarize the bottom-up and top-down fabrication approaches and physical properties of organized biopolymers and highlight the advantages of biopolymers as building blocks for realizing unique bioenabled photonic structures. Furthermore, we consider the integration of synthetic optically active nanocomponents into organized hierarchical biopolymer frameworks for added optical functionalities, such as enhanced iridescence and chiral photoluminescence. Finally, we present an outlook on current trends in biophotonic materials design and fabrication, including current issues, critical needs, as well as promising emerging photonic applications.
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- Rui Xiong
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA.
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Zhu J, Goddard LL. All-dielectric concentration of electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale: the role of photonic nanojets. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2019; 1:4615-4643. [PMID: 36133120 PMCID: PMC9419186 DOI: 10.1039/c9na00430k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The photonic nanojet (PNJ) is a narrow high-energy beam that was originally found on the back side of all-dielectric spherical structures. It is a unique type of energy concentration mode. The field of PNJs has experienced rapid growth in the past decade: nonspherical and even pixelized PNJ generators based on new physics and principles along with extended photonic applications from linear optics to nonlinear optics have driven the re-evaluation of the role of PNJs in optics and photonics. In this article, we give a comprehensive review for the emerging sub-topics in the past decade with a focus on two specific areas: (1) PNJ generators based on natural materials, artificial materials and nanostructures, and even programmable systems instead of conventional dielectric geometries such as microspheres, cubes, and trihedral prisms, and (2) the emerging novel applications in both linear and nonlinear optics that are built upon the specific features of PNJs. The extraordinary features of PNJs including subwavelength concentration of electromagnetic energy, high intensity focusing spot, and lower Joule heating as compared to plasmonic resonance systems, have made PNJs attractive to diverse fields spanning from optical imaging, nanofabrication, and integrated photonics to biosensing, optical tweezers, and disease diagnosis.
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- Jinlong Zhu
- Photonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 208 N. Wright St., MNTL 2231 Urbana IL 61801 USA
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- Photonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 208 N. Wright St., MNTL 2231 Urbana IL 61801 USA
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Miccio L, Behal J, Mugnano M, Memmolo P, Mandracchia B, Merola F, Grilli S, Ferraro P. Biological Lenses as a Photomask for Writing Laser Spots into Ferroelectric Crystals. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2019; 2:4675-4680. [PMID: 35021464 DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Red blood cells on the surface of a lithium niobate crystal can be used as optical lenses for direct writing of laser-induced refractive index changes. The writing process by such a photomask made of biological lenses is due to the photorefractive effect. Wavefront analysis by a digital holographic microscope is performed for deep and accurate evaluation of local refractive index changes. Different focusing properties can be imprinted on the crystal depending on which type of RBC is employed, discocytes or spherical-like RBCs. The possibility to fix into a solid material the optical fingerprint of the RBCs will have an impact on both diagnostics and cell\material interfacing.
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- Lisa Miccio
- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy.,Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 1192/12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems ISASI-CNR, 34 Via Campi Flegrei, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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Cacace T, Memmolo P, Villone MM, De Corato M, Mugnano M, Paturzo M, Ferraro P, Maffettone PL. Assembling and rotating erythrocyte aggregates by acoustofluidic pressure enabling full phase-contrast tomography. LAB ON A CHIP 2019; 19:3123-3132. [PMID: 31429851 DOI: 10.1039/c9lc00629j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The combined use of ultrasound radiation and microfluidics is a promising tool for aiding the development of lab-on-a-chip devices. In this study, we show that the rotation of linear aggregates of micro-particles can be achieved under the action of acoustic field pressure. This novel manipulation is investigated by tracking polystyrene beads of different sizes through the 3D imaging features of digital holography (DH). From our analysis it is understood that the positioning of the micro-particles and their aggregations are associated with the effect of bulk acoustic radiation forces. The observed rotation is instead found to be compatible with the presence of acoustic streaming patterns as evidenced by our modelling and the resulting numerical simulation. Furthermore, the rotation frequency is shown to depend on the input voltage applied on the acoustic device. Finally, we demonstrate that we can take full advantage of such rotation by combining it with quantitative phase imaging of DH for a significant lab-on-a-chip biomedical application. In fact, we demonstrate that it is possible to put in rotation a linear aggregate of erythrocytes and rely on holographic imaging to achieve a full phase-contrast tomography of the aforementioned aggregate.
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- Teresa Cacace
- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "E. Caianiello", Via Campi Flegrei 34, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy.
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Li Y, Liu X, Li B. Single-cell biomagnifier for optical nanoscopes and nanotweezers. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2019; 8:61. [PMID: 31645911 PMCID: PMC6804537 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0168-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2019] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Optical microscopes and optical tweezers, which were invented to image and manipulate microscale objects, have revolutionized cellular and molecular biology. However, the optical resolution is hampered by the diffraction limit; thus, optical microscopes and optical tweezers cannot be directly used to image and manipulate nano-objects. The emerging plasmonic/photonic nanoscopes and nanotweezers can achieve nanometer resolution, but the high-index material structures will easily cause mechanical and photothermal damage to biospecimens. Here, we demonstrate subdiffraction-limit imaging and manipulation of nano-objects by a noninvasive device that was constructed by trapping a cell on a fiber tip. The trapped cell, acting as a biomagnifier, could magnify nanostructures with a resolution of 100 nm (λ/5.5) under white-light microscopy. The focus of the biomagnifier formed a nano-optical trap that allowed precise manipulation of an individual nanoparticle with a radius of 50 nm. This biomagnifier provides a high-precision tool for optical imaging, sensing, and assembly of bionanomaterials.
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- Yuchao Li
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443 Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443 Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, 511443 Guangzhou, China
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Liu X, Li Y, Xu X, Zhang Y, Li B. Red-Blood-Cell-Based Microlens: Application to Single-Cell Membrane Imaging and Stretching. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2019; 2:2889-2895. [DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Xiaoshuai Liu
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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Wang QH, Xiao L, Liu C, Li L. Optofluidic variable optical path modulator. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7082. [PMID: 31068638 PMCID: PMC6506494 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43599-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The optofluidic devices including optofluidic lens, optical switch and liquid prism have found widespread applications in imaging, optical communication and lighting. Here, we report a novel optofluidic device called optofluidic variable optical path modulator. Our proposed modulator consists of two main chambers. The two chambers are connected by two tubes to form a closed-loop fluidic system. Two immiscible liquids are filled into the two chambers and form two L-L interfaces. A transparent sheet is placed between one L-L interface to get flat interface. When a voltage is applied on the device, the flat interface can move up and down. Thus, variable optical path can be obtained by applying a voltage. To prove the concept, we fabricate an optofluidic device whose largest movable distance of L-L interface is ~7.5 mm and the optical path length change is ~1.15 mm. The proposed optofluidic device has potential applications in imaging, adaptive optics, optical detection and so on.
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- Qiong-Hua Wang
- School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China.
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Kim J, Weigand M, Palmer AF, Zborowski M, Yazer MH, Chalmers JJ. Single cell analysis of aged RBCs: quantitative analysis of the aged cells and byproducts. Analyst 2019; 144:935-942. [PMID: 30617361 PMCID: PMC6506859 DOI: 10.1039/c8an01904e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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This study initially focused on characterizing the aging process of red blood cells by correlating the loss of hemoglobin and the translocation of phosphatidylserine (PS) in expired human red blood cells, hRBCs. Five pre-storage, leukoreduced hRBC units in AS-5 solution were stored between 1 and 6 °C for 42 days. Aliquots from each of these units were stained with Annexin-V FLUOS, which binds to externalized PS, and the hemoglobin within the cells was placed in a methemoglobin state with sodium nitrite, metHb. These aliquots were subsequently sorted into four sub-populations, ranging from no PS expression to high PS expression using a BD FACS ARIAIII. Each of these sub-fractions were introduced into the cell tracking velocimetry apparatus which measured both the magnetically-induced and the gravity-induced velocity. Subsequently, the samples were removed from the cell tracking velocimetry instrument and characterized using the Multisizer 4e Coulter Counter. From the magnetically-induced velocity, the amount of hemoglobin, in pg Hb per cell can be determined, and using an average value of the density of RBCs, the size can be determined. For the PS negative sub-fraction of RBCs, the size of the RBC was as expected but the average hemoglobin, Hb, content was below the threshold which defines anemia. In contrast, unexpected results were observed with the various levels of expression of PS. First, virtually all of the PS expressing cells were significantly smaller, on the order of 1 micron, than a normal RBC after 42 days of storage; yet the density of these small cells/microvesicles was such that they had settling velocities similar to normal-sized RBCs. Further, while the total amount of Hb per small cell/microvesicle was only approximately 25% of the full-sized RBCs, the volume of these small cells/microvesicles is only 1/200 of the PS negative RBCs. This suggests that these PS expressing cells are shrunken RBCs, or shrunken microvesicles from RBCs that concentrated the Hb internally. These results suggest not only a relationship between the loss of hemoglobin and the amount of PS exposed on the cellular outer wall, but also a mechanism by which these aged RBCs break down. It is not known at this time whether this is an artifact of storage or similar mechanisms occur in circulation within the human body.
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- James Kim
- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 320 Koffolt Laboratories, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Bae SI, Lee Y, Seo YH, Jeong KH. Antireflective structures on highly flexible and large area elastomer membrane for tunable liquid-filled endoscopic lens. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:856-861. [PMID: 30608502 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr06553e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The antireflection coating on an optical lens plays a key role not only in minimizing specular reflection but also in maximizing light transmission. Antireflective structures (ARS) found in the eyes of moths have the same role as conventional antireflection coating, and they also provide many intriguing features such as broadband coverage, self-antireflection, and strong water repellence. In particular, ARS on a highly flexible membrane can effectively deliver antireflective properties, which are rarely achieved by conventional hard coating. Herein, we report antireflective structures on a highly flexible elastomeric lens membrane for tunable endoscopic imaging applications. A thin antireflective membrane was fabricated using a large-area nanohole template and replica molding. The thin membrane increases light transmittance up to 96.8% in the visible region while enhancing the image contrast up to 56%, higher than that of a smooth membrane during lens deformation. This antireflective, tunable, liquid-filled lens offers new opportunities for compact endoscopic laparoscopy enabling maximum transmittance and variable zoom imaging in narrow and low-illumination environments.
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- Sang-In Bae
- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
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Gautam R, Xiang Y, Lamstein J, Liang Y, Bezryadina A, Liang G, Hansson T, Wetzel B, Preece D, White A, Silverman M, Kazarian S, Xu J, Morandotti R, Chen Z. Optical force-induced nonlinearity and self-guiding of light in human red blood cell suspensions. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2019; 8:31. [PMID: 30886708 PMCID: PMC6414597 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0142-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Osmotic conditions play an important role in the cell properties of human red blood cells (RBCs), which are crucial for the pathological analysis of some blood diseases such as malaria. Over the past decades, numerous efforts have mainly focused on the study of the RBC biomechanical properties that arise from the unique deformability of erythrocytes. Here, we demonstrate nonlinear optical effects from human RBCs suspended in different osmotic solutions. Specifically, we observe self-trapping and scattering-resistant nonlinear propagation of a laser beam through RBC suspensions under all three osmotic conditions, where the strength of the optical nonlinearity increases with osmotic pressure on the cells. This tunable nonlinearity is attributed to optical forces, particularly the forward-scattering and gradient forces. Interestingly, in aged blood samples (with lysed cells), a notably different nonlinear behavior is observed due to the presence of free hemoglobin. We use a theoretical model with an optical force-mediated nonlocal nonlinearity to explain the experimental observations. Our work on light self-guiding through scattering bio-soft-matter may introduce new photonic tools for noninvasive biomedical imaging and medical diagnosis.
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- Rekha Gautam
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240 USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- MOE Key Lab of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300457 China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- Guangxi Key Lab for Relativistic Astrophysics, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Lab of Novel Energy Materials and Related Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004 China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330 USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Varennes, QC J3X 1S2 Canada
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, SE-581 83 Sweden
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Varennes, QC J3X 1S2 Canada
- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- Clinical Laboratory Science Program, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- Clinical Laboratory Science Program, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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- MOE Key Lab of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300457 China
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Varennes, QC J3X 1S2 Canada
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, Chengdu, 610054 China
- ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, 197101 Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- MOE Key Lab of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300457 China
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Ugele M, Weniger M, Stanzel M, Bassler M, Krause SW, Friedrich O, Hayden O, Richter L. Label-Free High-Throughput Leukemia Detection by Holographic Microscopy. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2018; 5:1800761. [PMID: 30581697 PMCID: PMC6299719 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201800761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Revised: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Complete blood count and differentiation of leukocytes (DIFF) belong to the most frequently performed laboratory diagnostic tests. Here, a flow cytometry-based method for label-free DIFF of untouched leukocytes by digital holographic microscopy on the rich phase contrast of peripheral leukocyte images, using highly controlled 2D hydrodynamic focusing conditions is reported. Principal component analysis of morphological characteristics of the reconstructed images allows classification of nine leukocyte types, in addition to different types of leukemia and demonstrates disappearance of acute myeloid leukemia cells in remission. To exclude confounding effects, the classification strategy is tested by the analysis of 20 blinded clinical samples. Here, 70% of the specimens are correctly classified with further 20% classifications close to a correct diagnosis. Taken together, the findings indicate a broad clinical applicability of the cytometry method for automated and reagent-free diagnosis of hematological disorders.
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- Matthias Ugele
- In‐Vitro DX and BioscienceDepartment of Strategy and InnovationSiemens Healthcare GmbHGünther‐Scharowsky‐Str. 191058ErlangenGermany
- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringInstitute of Medical BiotechnologyFriedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen‐NurembergPaul‐Gordan‐Str. 391052ErlangenGermany
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- In‐Vitro DX and BioscienceDepartment of Strategy and InnovationSiemens Healthcare GmbHGünther‐Scharowsky‐Str. 191058ErlangenGermany
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- In‐Vitro DX and BioscienceDepartment of Strategy and InnovationSiemens Healthcare GmbHGünther‐Scharowsky‐Str. 191058ErlangenGermany
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- Analysesysteme und SensorikFraunhofer IMMCarl‐Zeiss‐Str. 18‐2055129MainzGermany
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- Medizinische Klinik 5Hämatologie and Internistische OnkologieUlmenweg 1891054ErlangenGermany
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- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringInstitute of Medical BiotechnologyFriedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen‐NurembergPaul‐Gordan‐Str. 391052ErlangenGermany
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- In‐Vitro DX and BioscienceDepartment of Strategy and InnovationSiemens Healthcare GmbHGünther‐Scharowsky‐Str. 191058ErlangenGermany
- Heinz‐Nixdorf‐Chair of Biomedical ElectronicsDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringTranslaTUMCampus Klinikum rechts der IsarTechnical University of MunichIsmaningerstr. 2281675MunichGermany
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- In‐Vitro DX and BioscienceDepartment of Strategy and InnovationSiemens Healthcare GmbHGünther‐Scharowsky‐Str. 191058ErlangenGermany
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Li Y, Xin H, Zhang Y, Lei H, Zhang T, Ye H, Saenz JJ, Qiu CW, Li B. Living Nanospear for Near-Field Optical Probing. ACS NANO 2018; 12:10703-10711. [PMID: 30265516 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Optical nanoprobes, designed to emit or collect light in the close proximity of a sample, have been extensively used to sense and image at nanometer resolution. However, the available nanoprobes, constructed from artificial materials, are incompatible and invasive when interfacing with biological systems. In this work, we report a fully biocompatible nanoprobe for subwavelength probing of localized fluorescence from leukemia single-cells in human blood. The bioprobe is built on a tapered fiber tip apex by optical trapping of a yeast cell (1.4 μm radius) and a chain of Lactobacillus acidophilus cells (2 μm length and 200 nm radius), which act as a high-aspect-ratio nanospear. Light propagating along the bionanospear can be focused into a spot with a full width at half-maximum (fwhm) of 190 nm on the surface of single cells. Fluorescence signals are detected in real time at subwavelength spatial resolution. These noninvasive and biocompatible optical probes will find applications in imaging and manipulation of biospecimens.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yuchao Li
- Institute of Nanophotonics , Jinan University , Guangzhou 511443 , China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics , Jinan University , Guangzhou 511443 , China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics , Jinan University , Guangzhou 511443 , China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering , Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou , 510275 , China
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- Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering , National University of Singapore, Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS) , #05-01, 28 Medical Drive Singapore 117456 , Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , Singapore 117583 , Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , Singapore 117583 , Singapore
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) , Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4 , Donostia-San Sebastian 20018 , Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science , 48013 Bilbao , Spain
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- Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering , National University of Singapore, Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS) , #05-01, 28 Medical Drive Singapore 117456 , Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , Singapore 117583 , Singapore
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- Institute of Nanophotonics , Jinan University , Guangzhou 511443 , China
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Dannhauser D, Rossi D, Memmolo P, Finizio A, Ferraro P, Netti PA, Causa F. Biophysical investigation of living monocytes in flow by collaborative coherent imaging techniques. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 9:5194-5204. [PMID: 30460122 PMCID: PMC6238935 DOI: 10.1364/boe.9.005194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
We implemented a completely label-free biophysical (morphometric and optical) property characterization of living monocytes in flow, using measurements obtained from two coherent imaging techniques: a pure light scattering approach to obtain an optical signature (OS) of cells, and a digital holography (DH) approach to achieve optical cell reconstructions in flow. A precise 3D cell alignment platform, taking advantage of viscoelastic fluid properties and microfluidic channel geometry, was used to investigate the OS of cells to achieve their refractive index, ratio of the nucleus over cytoplasm, and overall cell dimension. Further quantitative phase-contrast reconstructions by DH were employed to calculate surface area, dry mass, and biovolume of monocytes by using the OS outcomes as input parameters. The results show significantly different biophysical cell properties, confirming the possibility to differentiate monocytes from other cell classes in flow, thus avoiding chemical cell staining or labeling, which are nowadays used.
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- David Dannhauser
- Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Largo Barsanti e Matteucci 53, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Largo Barsanti e Matteucci 53, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences & Intelligent Systems “E. Caianiello”, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences & Intelligent Systems “E. Caianiello”, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
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- CNR-ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences & Intelligent Systems “E. Caianiello”, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Largo Barsanti e Matteucci 53, 80125 Naples, Italy
- Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB) and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale (DICMAPI), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Largo Barsanti e Matteucci 53, 80125 Naples, Italy
- Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB) and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale (DICMAPI), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
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