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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2015

A flexible wide-field FLIM endoscope utilising blue excitation light for label-free contrast of tissue.

Hugh Sparks, Sean Warren, Joana Guedes, Nagisa Yoshida, Tze Choong Charn, Nadia Guerra, Taranjit Tatla, Christopher Dunsby, Paul French

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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9 authors.

Hugh SparksPhotonics Group, Physics Department, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. hugh.sparks10@imperial.ac.uk.
Sean Warren
Joana Guedes
Nagisa Yoshida
Tze Choong Charn
Nadia Guerra
Taranjit Tatla
Christopher Dunsby
Paul French

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust RCDF088381/Z/09/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) has previously been shown to provide contrast between normal and diseased tissue. Here we present progress towards clinical and preclinical FLIM endoscopy of tissue autofluorescence, demonstrating a flexible wide-field endoscope that utilised a low average power blue picosecond laser diode excitation source and was able to acquire ∼mm-scale spatial maps of autofluorescence lifetimes from fresh ex vivo diseased human larynx biopsies in ∼8 seconds using an average excitation power of ∼0.5 mW at the specimen. To illustrate its potential for FLIM at higher acquisition rates, a higher power mode-locked frequency doubled Ti:Sapphire laser was used to demonstrate FLIM of ex vivo mouse bowel at up to 2.5 Hz using 10 mW of average excitation power at the specimen.

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EndoscopesLightAnimalsColorFluorescent DyesHumansIntestinal NeoplasmsLarynxMiceOptical ImagingFluorescent DyesautofluorescenceendoscopefibreflexibleFLIMinstrumentlifetime

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PMID24573953
PMCPMC4737404

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