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Samolis PD, Sander MY. Increasing contrast in water-embedded particles via time-gated mid-infrared photothermal microscopy. OPTICS LETTERS 2024; 49:1457-1460. [PMID: 38489424 DOI: 10.1364/ol.513742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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The transient dynamics of photothermal signals provide interesting insights into material properties and heat diffusion. In a mid-infrared (mid-IR) photothermal microscope, the imaging contrast in a standard amplitude imaging can decrease due to thermal diffusion effects. It is shown that contrast varies for poly-methyl 2-methylpropenoate (PMMA) particles of different sizes when embedded in an absorbing medium of water (H2O) based on levels of heat exchange under the water absorption resonance. Using time-resolved boxcar (BC) detection, analysis of the transient thermal dynamics at the bead-water interface is presented, and the time decay parameters for 500 nm and 100 nm beads are determined. Enhanced (negative) imaging contrast is observed for less heat exchange between the water and bead, as in the case for the 100 nm bead. For the 500 nm bead, boxcar imaging before heat exchange starts occurring, leads to an increase of the imaging contrast up to a factor of 1.6.
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Kobayashi-Kirschvink KJ, Comiter CS, Gaddam S, Joren T, Grody EI, Ounadjela JR, Zhang K, Ge B, Kang JW, Xavier RJ, So PTC, Biancalani T, Shu J, Regev A. Prediction of single-cell RNA expression profiles in live cells by Raman microscopy with Raman2RNA. Nat Biotechnol 2024:10.1038/s41587-023-02082-2. [PMID: 38200118 PMCID: PMC11233426 DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-02082-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Single-cell RNA sequencing and other profiling assays have helped interrogate cells at unprecedented resolution and scale, but are inherently destructive. Raman microscopy reports on the vibrational energy levels of proteins and metabolites in a label-free and nondestructive manner at subcellular spatial resolution, but it lacks genetic and molecular interpretability. Here we present Raman2RNA (R2R), a method to infer single-cell expression profiles in live cells through label-free hyperspectral Raman microscopy images and domain translation. We predict single-cell RNA sequencing profiles nondestructively from Raman images using either anchor-based integration with single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization, or anchor-free generation with adversarial autoencoders. R2R outperformed inference from brightfield images (cosine similarities: R2R >0.85 and brightfield <0.15). In reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells, R2R inferred the expression profiles of various cell states. With live-cell tracking of mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation, R2R traced the early emergence of lineage divergence and differentiation trajectories, overcoming discontinuities in expression space. R2R lays a foundation for future exploration of live genomic dynamics.
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- Koseki J Kobayashi-Kirschvink
- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Zong H, Yurdakul C, Zhao J, Wang Z, Chen F, Ünlü MS, Cheng JX. Bond-selective full-field optical coherence tomography. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:41202-41218. [PMID: 38087525 DOI: 10.1364/oe.503861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
Abstract
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a label-free, non-invasive 3D imaging tool widely used in both biological research and clinical diagnosis. Conventional OCT modalities can only visualize specimen tomography without chemical information. Here, we report a bond-selective full-field OCT (BS-FF-OCT), in which a pulsed mid-infrared laser is used to modulate the OCT signal through the photothermal effect, achieving label-free bond-selective 3D sectioned imaging of highly scattering samples. We first demonstrate BS-FF-OCT imaging of 1 µm PMMA beads embedded in agarose gel. Next, we show 3D hyperspectral imaging of up to 75 µm of polypropylene fiber mattress from a standard surgical mask. We then demonstrate BS-FF-OCT imaging on biological samples, including cancer cell spheroids and C. elegans. Using an alternative pulse timing configuration, we finally demonstrate the capability of BS-FF-OCT on imaging a highly scattering myelinated axons region in a mouse brain tissue slice.
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Astratov VN, Sahel YB, Eldar YC, Huang L, Ozcan A, Zheludev N, Zhao J, Burns Z, Liu Z, Narimanov E, Goswami N, Popescu G, Pfitzner E, Kukura P, Hsiao YT, Hsieh CL, Abbey B, Diaspro A, LeGratiet A, Bianchini P, Shaked NT, Simon B, Verrier N, Debailleul M, Haeberlé O, Wang S, Liu M, Bai Y, Cheng JX, Kariman BS, Fujita K, Sinvani M, Zalevsky Z, Li X, Huang GJ, Chu SW, Tzang O, Hershkovitz D, Cheshnovsky O, Huttunen MJ, Stanciu SG, Smolyaninova VN, Smolyaninov II, Leonhardt U, Sahebdivan S, Wang Z, Luk’yanchuk B, Wu L, Maslov AV, Jin B, Simovski CR, Perrin S, Montgomery P, Lecler S. Roadmap on Label-Free Super-Resolution Imaging. LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS 2023; 17:2200029. [PMID: 38883699 PMCID: PMC11178318 DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Label-free super-resolution (LFSR) imaging relies on light-scattering processes in nanoscale objects without a need for fluorescent (FL) staining required in super-resolved FL microscopy. The objectives of this Roadmap are to present a comprehensive vision of the developments, the state-of-the-art in this field, and to discuss the resolution boundaries and hurdles which need to be overcome to break the classical diffraction limit of the LFSR imaging. The scope of this Roadmap spans from the advanced interference detection techniques, where the diffraction-limited lateral resolution is combined with unsurpassed axial and temporal resolution, to techniques with true lateral super-resolution capability which are based on understanding resolution as an information science problem, on using novel structured illumination, near-field scanning, and nonlinear optics approaches, and on designing superlenses based on nanoplasmonics, metamaterials, transformation optics, and microsphere-assisted approaches. To this end, this Roadmap brings under the same umbrella researchers from the physics and biomedical optics communities in which such studies have often been developing separately. The ultimate intent of this paper is to create a vision for the current and future developments of LFSR imaging based on its physical mechanisms and to create a great opening for the series of articles in this field.
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- Vasily N. Astratov
- Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223-0001, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, The Photonics Institute, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
- Material Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica 1, Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica 1, Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Optical Nanoscopy and NIC@IIT, CHT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83B, 16152 Genoa, Italy
- DIFILAB, Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Optical Nanoscopy and NIC@IIT, CHT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83B, 16152 Genoa, Italy
- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON - UMR 6082, F-22305 Lannion, France
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- Optical Nanoscopy and NIC@IIT, CHT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83B, 16152 Genoa, Italy
- DIFILAB, Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- LP2N, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS UMR 5298, Université de Bordeaux, Talence France
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- IRIMAS UR UHA 7499, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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- IRIMAS UR UHA 7499, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, China
- Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, USA
- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
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- Boston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Boston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Optical Nanoscopy and NIC@IIT, CHT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83B, 16152 Genoa, Italy
- DIFILAB, Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Applied Physics and the Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory (AIST); and the Transdimensional Life Imaging Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering and the Nano-Technology Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and the Nano-Technology Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Physics and Molecular Imaging Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Physics and Molecular Imaging Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- School of Chemistry, The Sackler faculty of Exact Sciences, and the Center for Light matter Interactions, and the Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- School of Chemistry, The Sackler faculty of Exact Sciences, and the Center for Light matter Interactions, and the Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- School of Chemistry, The Sackler faculty of Exact Sciences, and the Center for Light matter Interactions, and the Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Laboratory of Photonics, Physics Unit, Tampere University, FI-33014, Tampere, Finland
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- Center for Microscopy – Microanalysis and Information Processing, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- EMTensor GmbH, TechGate, Donau-City-Strasse 1, 1220 Wien, Austria
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- School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 1UT, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Department of Materials Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Radiophysics, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, 603022, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223-0001, USA
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- Department of Electronics and Nano-Engineering, Aalto University, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland
- Faculty of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University, 199034, St-Petersburg, Russia
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- ICube Research Institute, University of Strasbourg - CNRS - INSA de Strasbourg, 300 Bd. Sébastien Brant, 67412 Illkirch, France
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- ICube Research Institute, University of Strasbourg - CNRS - INSA de Strasbourg, 300 Bd. Sébastien Brant, 67412 Illkirch, France
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- ICube Research Institute, University of Strasbourg - CNRS - INSA de Strasbourg, 300 Bd. Sébastien Brant, 67412 Illkirch, France
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Samolis P, Zhu X, Sander MY. Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy for Imaging Water-Embedded Axon Bundles. Anal Chem 2023; 95:16514-16521. [PMID: 37880191 PMCID: PMC10652238 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
Abstract
Few experimental tools exist for performing label-free imaging of biological samples in a water-rich environment due to the high infrared absorption of water, overlapping with major protein and lipid bands. A novel imaging modality based on time-resolved mid-infrared photothermal microscopy is introduced and applied to imaging axon bundles in a saline bath environment. Photothermally induced spatial gradients at the axon bundle membrane interfaces with saline and surrounding biological tissue are observed and temporally characterized by a high-speed boxcar detection system. Localized time profiles with an enhanced signal-to-noise, hyper-temporal image stacks, and two-dimensional mapping of the time decay profiles are acquired without the need for complex post image processing. Axon bundles are found to have a larger distribution of time decay profiles compared to the water background, allowing background differentiation based on these transient dynamics. The quantitative analysis of the signal evolution over time allows characterizing the level of thermal confinement at different regions. When axon bundles are surrounded by complex heterogeneous tissue, which contains smaller features, a stronger thermal confinement is observed compared to a water environment, thus shedding light on the heat transfer dynamics across aqueous biological interfaces.
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- Panagis
D. Samolis
- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Photonics
Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Photonics
Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Photonics
Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston
University, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446, United States
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Yoneda N, Matoba O, Saita Y, Nomura T. Quantitative phase imaging based on motionless optical scanning holography. OPTICS LETTERS 2023; 48:5273-5276. [PMID: 37831845 DOI: 10.1364/ol.496419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Optical scanning holography (OSH) can be applied to 3D fluorescent imaging. However, the optical setup for OSH is complicated due to the requirement of a phase shifter, a 2D mechanical scanner, and an interferometer. Although motionless optical scanning holography (MOSH) can overcome the problem, quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has not yet been realized because MOSH can only obtain incoherent holograms. If QPI in MOSH is realized, MOSH can be applied to various applications. In this Letter, MOSH-based QPI (MOSH-QPI) is proposed. In addition, a simple description of a coherent mode of OSH is presented. In the proof-of-principle experiment, the spatially divided phase-shifting technique is applied to reduce the number of measurements. The feasibility of MOSH-QPI is confirmed by measuring a phase distribution of a microlens array. MOSH-QPI is also applied to measure practical samples, and its results are compared with the experimental results of the conventional one using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
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Jia D, Zhang Y, Yang Q, Xue Y, Tan Y, Guo Z, Zhang M, Tian L, Cheng JX. 3D Chemical Imaging by Fluorescence-detected Mid-Infrared Photothermal Fourier Light Field Microscopy. CHEMICAL & BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2023; 1:260-267. [PMID: 37388959 PMCID: PMC10302888 DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Three-dimensional molecular imaging of living organisms and cells plays a significant role in modern biology. Yet, current volumetric imaging modalities are largely fluorescence-based and thus lack chemical content information. Mid-infrared photothermal microscopy as a chemical imaging technology provides infrared spectroscopic information at submicrometer spatial resolution. Here, by harnessing thermosensitive fluorescent dyes to sense the mid-infrared photothermal effect, we demonstrate 3D fluorescence-detected mid-infrared photothermal Fourier light field (FMIP-FLF) microscopy at the speed of 8 volumes per second and submicron spatial resolution. Protein contents in bacteria and lipid droplets in living pancreatic cancer cells are visualized. Altered lipid metabolism in drug-resistant pancreatic cancer cells is observed with the FMIP-FLF microscope.
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- Danchen Jia
- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Yin J, Zhang M, Tan Y, Guo Z, He H, Lan L, Cheng JX. Video-rate mid-infrared photothermal imaging by single-pulse photothermal detection per pixel. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadg8814. [PMID: 37315131 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg8814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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By optically sensing absorption-induced photothermal effect, mid-infrared (IR) photothermal (MIP) microscope enables super-resolution IR imaging of biological systems in water. However, the speed of current sample-scanning MIP system is limited to milliseconds per pixel, which is insufficient for capturing living dynamics. By detecting the transient photothermal signal induced by a single IR pulse through fast digitization, we report a laser-scanning MIP microscope that increases the imaging speed by three orders of magnitude. To realize single-pulse photothermal detection, we use synchronized galvo scanning of both mid-IR and probe beams to achieve an imaging line rate of more than 2 kilohertz. With video-rate speed, we observed the dynamics of various biomolecules in living organisms at multiple scales. Furthermore, by using hyperspectral imaging, we chemically dissected the layered ultrastructure of fungal cell wall. Last, with a uniform field of view more than 200 by 200 square micrometer, we mapped fat storage in free-moving Caenorhabditis elegans and live embryos.
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- Jiaze Yin
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Tang M, Han Y, Jia D, Yang Q, Cheng JX. Far-field super-resolution chemical microscopy. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2023; 12:137. [PMID: 37277396 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01182-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Far-field chemical microscopy providing molecular electronic or vibrational fingerprint information opens a new window for the study of three-dimensional biological, material, and chemical systems. Chemical microscopy provides a nondestructive way of chemical identification without exterior labels. However, the diffraction limit of optics hindered it from discovering more details under the resolution limit. Recent development of super-resolution techniques gives enlightenment to open this door behind far-field chemical microscopy. Here, we review recent advances that have pushed the boundary of far-field chemical microscopy in terms of spatial resolution. We further highlight applications in biomedical research, material characterization, environmental study, cultural heritage conservation, and integrated chip inspection.
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- Mingwei Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
- Intelligent Perception Research Institute, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, 311100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02459, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
- Intelligent Perception Research Institute, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, 311100, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02459, USA.
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Xia Q, Yin J, Guo Z, Cheng JX. Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy: Principle, Instrumentation, and Applications. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:8597-8613. [PMID: 36285985 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Midinfrared photothermal (MIP) microscopy, also called optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) microscopy, is an emerging tool for bond-selective chemical imaging of living biological and material samples. In MIP microscopy, a visible probe beam detects the photothermal-based contrast induced by a vibrational absorption. With submicron spatial resolution, high spectral fidelity, and reduced water absorption background, MIP microscopy has overcome the limitations in infrared chemical imaging methods. In this review, we summarize the basic principle of MIP microscopy, the different origins of MIP contrasts, and recent technology development that pushed the resolution, speed, and sensitivity of MIP imaging to a new stage. We further emphasize its broad applications in life science and material characterization, and provide a perspective of future technical advances.
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- Qing Xia
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.,Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.,Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.,Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Hilzenrat G, Gill ET, McArthur SL. Imaging approaches for monitoring three-dimensional cell and tissue culture systems. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2022; 15:e202100380. [PMID: 35357086 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202100380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The past decade has seen an increasing demand for more complex, reproducible and physiologically relevant tissue cultures that can mimic the structural and biological features of living tissues. Monitoring the viability, development and responses of such tissues in real-time are challenging due to the complexities of cell culture physical characteristics and the environments in which these cultures need to be maintained in. Significant developments in optics, such as optical manipulation, improved detection and data analysis, have made optical imaging a preferred choice for many three-dimensional (3D) cell culture monitoring applications. The aim of this review is to discuss the challenges associated with imaging and monitoring 3D tissues and cell culture, and highlight topical label-free imaging tools that enable bioengineers and biophysicists to non-invasively characterise engineered living tissues.
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- Geva Hilzenrat
- Bioengineering Engineering Group, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Bioengineering Engineering Group, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Bioengineering Engineering Group, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Visitsattapongse S, Thadson K, Pechprasarn S, Thongpance N. Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Phase Retrieval Algorithm Performance for Quantitative Phase Imaging Microscopy. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22093530. [PMID: 35591220 PMCID: PMC9104860 DOI: 10.3390/s22093530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Quantitative phase imaging has been of interest to the science and engineering community and has been applied in multiple research fields and applications. Recently, the data-driven approach of artificial intelligence has been utilized in several optical applications, including phase retrieval. However, phase images recovered from artificial intelligence are questionable in their correctness and reliability. Here, we propose a theoretical framework to analyze and quantify the performance of a deep learning-based phase retrieval algorithm for quantitative phase imaging microscopy by comparing recovered phase images to their theoretical phase profile in terms of their correctness. This study has employed both lossless and lossy samples, including uniform plasmonic gold sensors and dielectric layer samples; the plasmonic samples are lossy, whereas the dielectric layers are lossless. The uniform samples enable us to quantify the theoretical phase since they are established and well understood. In addition, a context aggregation network has been employed to demonstrate the phase image regression. Several imaging planes have been simulated serving as input and the label for network training, including a back focal plane image, an image at the image plane, and images when the microscope sample is axially defocused. The back focal plane image plays an essential role in phase retrieval for the plasmonic samples, whereas the dielectric layer requires both image plane and back focal plane information to retrieve the phase profile correctly. Here, we demonstrate that phase images recovered using deep learning can be robust and reliable depending on the sample and the input to the deep learning.
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- Sarinporn Visitsattapongse
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand; (S.V.); (K.T.)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand; (S.V.); (K.T.)
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Rangsit University, Pathum Thani 12000, Thailand;
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Rangsit University, Pathum Thani 12000, Thailand;
- Correspondence:
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Xu Z, Xie X, Li R, Yu K, Lish SR, Xu M. Information entropy of quantitative chemometric endogenous fluorescence improves photonic lung cancer diagnosis. APPLIED OPTICS 2022; 61:478-484. [PMID: 35200886 DOI: 10.1364/ao.439458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Quantitative chemometric widefield endogenous fluorescence microscopy (CFM) maps the endogenous absolute chromophore concentration and spatial distribution in cells and tissue sections label-free from fluorescence color images under broadband excitation and detection. By quantifying the endogenous chromophores, including tryptophan, elastin, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide [NAD(P)H], and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), CFM reveals the biochemical environment and subcellular structure. Here we show that the chromophore information entropy, marking its spatial distribution pattern of quantitative chemometric endogenous fluorescence at the microscopic scale, improves photonic lung cancer diagnosis with independent diagnostic power to the cellular metabolism biomarker. NAD(P)H and FAD's information entropy is found to decrease from normal to perilesional to cancerous tissue, whereas the information entropy for the redox ratios [FAD/tryptophan and FAD/NAD(P)H] is smaller for the normal tissue than both perilesional and cancerous tissue. CFM imaging of the specimen's inherent biochemical and structural properties eliminates the dependence on measurement details and facilitates robust, accurate diagnosis. The synergy of quantifying absolute chromophore concentration and information entropy achieves high accuracies for a three-class classification of lung tissue into normal, perilesional, and cancerous ones and a three-class classification of lung cancers into grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 using a support vector machine, outperforming the chromophore concentration biomarkers.
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Lux L, Phal Y, Hsieh PH, Bhargava R. On the Limit of Detection in Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 76:105-117. [PMID: 34643135 PMCID: PMC10539114 DOI: 10.1177/00037028211050961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Infrared (IR) spectroscopic imaging instruments' performance can be characterized and optimized by an analysis of their limit of detection (LOD). Here we report a systematic analysis of the LOD for Fourier transform IR (FT-IR) and discrete frequency IR (DFIR) imaging spectrometers. In addition to traditional measurements of sample and blank data, we propose a decision theory perspective to pose the determination of LOD as a binary classification problem under different assumptions of noise uniformity and correlation. We also examine three spectral analysis approaches, namely, absorbance at a single frequency, average of absorbance over selected frequencies and total spectral distance - to suit instruments that acquire discrete or contiguous spectral bandwidths. The analysis is validated by refining the fabrication of a bovine serum albumin protein microarray to provide eight uniform spots from ∼2.8 nL of solution for each concentration over a wide range (0.05-10 mg/mL). Using scanning parameters that are typical for each instrument, we estimate a LOD of 0.16 mg/mL and 0.12 mg/mL for widefield and line scanning FT-IR imaging systems, respectively, using the spectral distance approach, and 0.22 mg/mL and 0.15 mg/mL using an optimal set of discrete frequencies. As expected, averaging and the use of post-processing techniques such as minimum noise fraction transformation results in LODs as low as ∼0.075 mg/mL that correspond to a spotted protein mass of ∼112 fg/pixel. We emphasize that these measurements were conducted at typical imaging parameters for each instrument and can be improved using the usual trading rules of IR spectroscopy. This systematic analysis and methodology for determining the LOD can allow for quantitative measures of confidence in imaging an analyte's concentration and a basis for further improving IR imaging technology.
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- Laurin Lux
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 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 for Advanced Science and Technology, 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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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 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
- Deparment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Zong H, Yurdakul C, Bai Y, Zhang M, Ünlü MS, Cheng JX. Background-Suppressed High-Throughput Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy via Pupil Engineering. ACS PHOTONICS 2021; 8:3323-3336. [PMID: 35966035 PMCID: PMC9373987 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Mid-infrared photothermal (MIP) microscopy has been a promising label-free chemical imaging technique for functional characterization of specimens owing to its enhanced spatial resolution and high specificity. Recently developed wide-field MIP imaging modalities have drastically improved speed and enabled high-throughput imaging of micron-scale subjects. However, the weakly scattered signal from subwavelength particles becomes indistinguishable from the shot-noise as a consequence of the strong background light, leading to limited sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate background-suppressed chemical fingerprinting at a single nanoparticle level by selectively attenuating the reflected light through pupil engineering in the collection path. Our technique provides over 3 orders of magnitude background suppression by quasi-darkfield illumination in the epi-configuration without sacrificing lateral resolution. We demonstrate 6-fold signal-to-background noise ratio improvement, allowing for simultaneous detection and discrimination of hundreds of nanoparticles across a field of view of 70 μm × 70 μm. A comprehensive theoretical framework for photothermal image formation is provided and experimentally validated with 300 and 500 nm PMMA beads. The versatility and utility of our technique are demonstrated via hyperspectral dark-field MIP imaging of S. aureus and E. coli bacteria and MIP imaging of subcellular lipid droplets inside C. albicans and cancer cells.
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- Haonan Zong
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Bai Y, Yin J, Cheng JX. Bond-selective imaging by optically sensing the mid-infrared photothermal effect. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabg1559. [PMID: 33990332 PMCID: PMC8121423 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg1559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Mid-infrared (IR) spectroscopic imaging using inherent vibrational contrast has been broadly used as a powerful analytical tool for sample identification and characterization. However, the low spatial resolution and large water absorption associated with the long IR wavelengths hinder its applications to study subcellular features in living systems. Recently developed mid-infrared photothermal (MIP) microscopy overcomes these limitations by probing the IR absorption-induced photothermal effect using a visible light. MIP microscopy yields submicrometer spatial resolution with high spectral fidelity and reduced water background. In this review, we categorize different photothermal contrast mechanisms and discuss instrumentations for scanning and widefield MIP microscope configurations. We highlight a broad range of applications from life science to materials. We further provide future perspective and potential venues in MIP microscopy field.
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- Yeran Bai
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Yoneda N, Onishi A, Saita Y, Komuro K, Nomura T. Single-shot higher-order transport-of-intensity quantitative phase imaging based on computer-generated holography. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:4783-4801. [PMID: 33726027 DOI: 10.1364/oe.415598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The imaging quality of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) based on the transport of intensity equation (TIE) can be improved using a higher-order approximation for defocused intensity distributions. However, this requires mechanically scanning an image sensor or object along the optical axis, which in turn requires a precisely aligned optical setup. To overcome this problem, a computer-generated hologram (CGH) technique is introduced to TIE-based QPI. A CGH generating defocused point spread function is inserted in the Fourier plane of an object. The CGH acts as a lens and grating with various focal lengths and orientations, allowing multiple defocused intensity distributions to be simultaneously detected on an image sensor plane. The results of a numerical simulation and optical experiment demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method.
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Samolis PD, Langley D, O’Reilly BM, Oo Z, Hilzenrat G, Erramilli S, Sgro AE, McArthur S, Sander MY. Label-free imaging of fibroblast membrane interfaces and protein signatures with vibrational infrared photothermal and phase signals. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 12:303-319. [PMID: 33520386 PMCID: PMC7818956 DOI: 10.1364/boe.411888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Label-free vibrational imaging of biological samples has attracted significant interest due to its integration of structural and chemical information. Vibrational infrared photothermal amplitude and phase signal (VIPPS) imaging provide label-free chemical identification by targeting the characteristic resonances of biological compounds that are present in the mid-infrared fingerprint region (3 µm - 12 µm). High contrast imaging of subcellular features and chemical identification of protein secondary structures in unlabeled and labeled fibroblast cells embedded in a collagen-rich extracellular matrix is demonstrated by combining contrast from absorption signatures (amplitude signals) with sensitive detection of different heat properties (lock-in phase signals). We present that the detectability of nano-sized cell membranes is enhanced to well below the optical diffraction limit since the membranes are found to act as thermal barriers. VIPPS offers a novel combination of chemical imaging and thermal diffusion characterization that paves the way towards label-free imaging of cell models and tissues as well as the study of intracellular heat dynamics.
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- Panagis D. Samolis
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Bioengineering Research Group Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, CSIRO Manufacturing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Bioengineering Research Group Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, CSIRO Manufacturing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Bioengineering Research Group Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, CSIRO Manufacturing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Bioengineering Research Group Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- Biomedical Manufacturing, CSIRO Manufacturing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
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Toda K, Tamamitsu M, Ideguchi T. Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:1. [PMID: 33386387 PMCID: PMC7775917 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-020-00435-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) with its high-contrast images of optical phase delay (OPD) maps is often used for label-free single-cell analysis. Contrary to other imaging methods, sensitivity improvement has not been intensively explored because conventional QPI is sensitive enough to observe the surface roughness of a substrate that restricts the minimum measurable OPD. However, emerging QPI techniques that utilize, for example, differential image analysis of consecutive temporal frames, such as mid-infrared photothermal QPI, mitigate the minimum OPD limit by decoupling the static OPD contribution and allow measurement of much smaller OPDs. Here, we propose and demonstrate supersensitive QPI with an expanded dynamic range. It is enabled by adaptive dynamic range shift through a combination of wavefront shaping and dark-field QPI techniques. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we show dynamic range expansion (sensitivity improvement) of QPI by a factor of 6.6 and its utility in improving the sensitivity of mid-infrared photothermal QPI. This technique can also be applied for wide-field scattering imaging of dynamically changing nanoscale objects inside and outside a biological cell without losing global cellular morphological image information.
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- Keiichiro Toda
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
- Institute for Photon Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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Adhikari S, Spaeth P, Kar A, Baaske MD, Khatua S, Orrit M. Photothermal Microscopy: Imaging the Optical Absorption of Single Nanoparticles and Single Molecules. ACS NANO 2020; 14:16414-16445. [PMID: 33216527 PMCID: PMC7760091 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The photothermal (PT) signal arises from slight changes of the index of refraction in a sample due to absorption of a heating light beam. Refractive index changes are measured with a second probing beam, usually of a different color. In the past two decades, this all-optical detection method has reached the sensitivity of single particles and single molecules, which gave birth to original applications in material science and biology. PT microscopy enables shot-noise-limited detection of individual nanoabsorbers among strong scatterers and circumvents many of the limitations of fluorescence-based detection. This review describes the theoretical basis of PT microscopy, the methodological developments that improved its sensitivity toward single-nanoparticle and single-molecule imaging, and a vast number of applications to single-nanoparticle imaging and tracking in material science and in cellular biology.
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- Subhasis Adhikari
- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chemistry
Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujrat 382355, India
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chemistry
Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujrat 382355, India
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Huang J, Bao Y, Gaylord TK. Three-dimensional phase optical transfer function in axially symmetric microscopic quantitative phase imaging. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2020; 37:1857-1872. [PMID: 33362127 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.403861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging (3D QPI) is widely recognized as a potentially high-impact microscopic modality. Central to determining the resolution capability of 3D QPI is the phase optical transfer function (POTF). The magnitude of the POTF over its spatial frequency coverage (SFC) specifies the intensity of the response for each allowed spatial frequency. In this paper, a detailed analysis of the POTF for an axially symmetric optical configuration is presented. First, a useful geometric interpretation of the SFC, which enables its visualization, is presented. Second, a closed-form 1D integral expression is derived for the POTF in the general nonparaxial case, which enables rapid calculation of the POTF. Third, this formulation is applied to disk, annular, multi-annuli, and Gaussian illuminations as well as to an annular objective. Taken together, these contributions enable the visualization and simplified calculation of the 3D axially symmetric POTF and provide a basis for optimizing QPI in a wide range of applications.
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Ichimura T, Nuriya M. Symposium report: understanding biological systems with quantum science and technology. Biophys Rev 2020; 12:287-289. [PMID: 32112373 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00655-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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- Taro Ichimura
- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. .,RIKEN Biosystems Dynamics Research Center, 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, Osaka, 565-0874, Japan. .,Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.,Department of Pharmacology School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.,Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-1 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Kanagawa, 240-8501, Japan
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Zhang D, Lan L, Bai Y, Majeed H, Kandel ME, Popescu G, Cheng JX. Bond-selective transient phase imaging via sensing of the infrared photothermal effect. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2019; 8:116. [PMID: 31839936 PMCID: PMC6904725 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0224-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Revised: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Phase-contrast microscopy converts the phase shift of light passing through a transparent specimen, e.g., a biological cell, into brightness variations in an image. This ability to observe structures without destructive fixation or staining has been widely utilized for applications in materials and life sciences. Despite these advantages, phase-contrast microscopy lacks the ability to reveal molecular information. To address this gap, we developed a bond-selective transient phase (BSTP) imaging technique that excites molecular vibrations by infrared light, resulting in a transient change in phase shift that can be detected by a diffraction phase microscope. By developing a time-gated pump-probe camera system, we demonstrate BSTP imaging of live cells at a 50 Hz frame rate with high spectral fidelity, sub-microsecond temporal resolution, and sub-micron spatial resolution. Our approach paves a new way for spectroscopic imaging investigation in biology and materials science.
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- Delong Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310028 China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai, 201800 China
- Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800 China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801 USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801 USA
| | - Gabriel Popescu
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801 USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801 USA
| | - Ji-Xin Cheng
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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