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Optical Clearing and Imaging of Immunolabeled Kidney Tissue
Published on: July 22, 2019
Measurement of tissue optical properties in the context of tissue optical clearing
Alexey N Bashkatov1,2, Kirill V Berezin1, Konstantin N Dvoretskiy3
1Saratov State University, Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov, Russia.
Abstract:
Nowadays, dynamically developing optical (photonic) technologies play an ever-increasing role in medicine. Their adequate and effective implementation in diagnostics, surgery, and therapy needs reliable data on optical properties of human tissues, including skin. This paper presents an overview of recent results on the measurements and control of tissue optical properties. The issues reported comprise a brief review of optical properties of biological tissues and efficacy of optical clearing (OC) method in application to monitoring of diabetic complications and visualization of blood vessels and microcirculation using a number of optical imaging technologies, including spectroscopic, optical coherence tomography, and polarization- and speckle-based ones. Molecular modeling of immersion OC of skin and specific technique of OC of adipose tissue by its heating and photodynamic treatment are also discussed.
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