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ArticleLaser & photonics reviews2024

Pixelation with concentration-encoded effective photons for quantitative molecular optical sectioning microscopy.

Geng Wang, Rishyashring R Iyer, Janet E Sorrells, Edita Aksamitiene, Eric J Chaney, Carlos A Renteria, Jaena Park, Jindou Shi, Yi Sun, Stephen A Boppart and 1 more

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Article in Laser & photonics reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Gentle Label-Free Nonlinear Optical Imaging Relaxes Linear-Absorption-Mediated Triplet.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Geng WangBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Rishyashring R IyerBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Janet E SorrellsBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Edita AksamitieneBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Eric J ChaneyBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Carlos A RenteriaBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Jaena ParkBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Jindou ShiBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Yi SunBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Stephen A BoppartBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Haohua TuBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

Funding

The Center for Label-free Imagingand Multiscale Biophotonics (CLIMB)P41EB031772 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Stephen A Boppart · 2022 to 2026
$7.6M
Imaging tumor microenvironment by Optical Fiber-Tethered Simultaneous Lifetime-resolved Autofluorescence-Multiharmonic (OFT-SLAM) microscopyR01CA241618 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI BOPPART, STEPHEN A, TU, HAOHUA · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241618NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB031772
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Irreproducibility in molecular optical sectioning microscopy has hindered the transformation of acquired digital images from qualitative descriptions to quantitative data. Although numerous tools, metrics, and phantoms have been developed, accurate quantitative comparisons of data from different microscopy systems with diverse acquisition conditions remains a challenge. Here, we develop a simple tool based on an absolute measurement of bulk fluorophore solutions with related Poisson photon statistics, to overcome this obstacle. Demonstrated in a prototypical multiphoton microscope, our tool unifies the unit of pixelated measurement to enable objective comparison of imaging performance across different modalities, microscopes, components/settings, and molecular targets. The application of this tool in live specimens identifies an attractive methodology for quantitative imaging, which rapidly acquires low signal-to-noise frames with either gentle illumination or low-concentration fluorescence labeling.

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PMID39781104
PMCPMC11706540

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