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ArticleJournal of biomedical optics2016

Reconstruction of explicit structural properties at the nanoscale via spectroscopic microscopy.

Lusik Cherkezyan, Di Zhang, Hariharan Subramanian, Allen Taflove, Vadim Backman

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Article in Journal of biomedical optics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lusik CherkezyanNorthwestern University, Technological Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, E310, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Di ZhangNorthwestern University, Technological Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, E310, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Hariharan SubramanianNorthwestern University, Technological Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, E310, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Allen TafloveNorthwestern University, Technological Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering, L359, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Vadim BackmanNorthwestern University, Technological Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, E310, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Risk-stratification of Prostate Cancers via Field Carcinogenesis NanocytologyR01CA200064 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, CRAWFORD, SUSAN E. · 2015 to 2019
$3.1M
Nanoscale/Molecular analysis of Fecal Colonocytes for Colorectal Cancer ScreeningR01CA165309 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, ROY, HEMANT K. · 2012 to 2016
$2.8M
Optical Nanoscale Analysis of Buccal Cells: Transforming Lung Cancer ScreeningR01CA155284 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, ROY, HEMANT K. · 2011 to 2014
$2.3M
High-throughput molecular-specific cell nanocytology for cancer screeningR01EB016983 · NIBIB · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, SUBRAMANIAN, HARIHARAN · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS R01 CA155284NCI NIH HHS R01CA155284NCI NIH HHS R01 CA165309NCI NIH HHS R01CA165309NCI NIH HHS R01 CA200064NCI NIH HHS R01CA200064NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB016983NIBIB NIH HHS R01EB016983
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spectrum registered by a reflected-light bright-field spectroscopic microscope (SM) can quantify the microscopically indiscernible, deeply subdiffractional length scales within samples such as biological cells and tissues. Nevertheless, quantification of biological specimens via any optical measures most often reveals ambiguous information about the specific structural properties within the studied samples. Thus, optical quantification remains nonintuitive to users from the diverse fields of technique application. In this work, we demonstrate that the SM signal can be analyzed to reconstruct explicit physical measures of internal structure within label-free, weakly scattering samples: characteristic length scale and the amplitude of spatial refractive-index (RI) fluctuations. We present and validate the reconstruction algorithm via finite-difference time-domain solutions of Maxwell's equations on an example of exponential spatial correlation of RI. We apply the validated algorithm to experimentally measure structural properties within isolated cells from two genetic variants of HT29 colon cancer cell line as well as within a prostate tissue biopsy section. The presented methodology can lead to the development of novel biophotonics techniques that create two-dimensional maps of explicit structural properties within biomaterials: the characteristic size of macromolecular complexes and the variance of local mass density.

Indexed as

Signal Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsHT29 CellsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleMicroscopyNanotechnologyOptical ImagingProstateReproducibility of Results

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PMID26886803
PMCPMC4756051
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