Deep tissue two-photon microscopy

F Helmchen, W Denk - Nature methods, 2005‏ - nature.com
With few exceptions biological tissues strongly scatter light, making high-resolution deep
imaging impossible for traditional—including confocal—fluorescence microscopy. Nonlinear …

Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences

WR Zipfel, RM Williams, WW Webb - Nature biotechnology, 2003‏ - nature.com
Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has found a niche in the world of biological imaging as the
best noninvasive means of fluorescence microscopy in tissue explants and living animals …

Second-harmonic imaging microscopy for visualizing biomolecular arrays in cells, tissues and organisms

PJ Campagnola, LM Loew - Nature biotechnology, 2003‏ - nature.com
Although the nonlinear optical effect known as second-harmonic generation (SHG) has
been recognized since the earliest days of laser physics and was demonstrated through a …

Principles of two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications to neuroscience

K Svoboda, R Yasuda - Neuron, 2006‏ - cell.com
The brain is complex and dynamic. The spatial scales of interest to the neurobiologist range
from individual synapses (∼ 1 μm) to neural circuits (centimeters); the timescales range from …

Three-dimensional high-resolution second-harmonic generation imaging of endogenous structural proteins in biological tissues

PJ Campagnola, AC Millard, M Terasaki, PE Hoppe… - Biophysical journal, 2002‏ - cell.com
We find that several key endogenous protein structures give rise to intense second-
harmonic generation (SHG)—nonabsorptive frequency doubling of an excitation laser line …

Imaging cells and extracellular matrix in vivo by using second-harmonic generation and two-photon excited fluorescence

A Zoumi, A Yeh, BJ Tromberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2002‏ - pnas.org
Multiphoton microscopy relies on nonlinear light–matter interactions to provide contrast and
optical sectioning capability for high-resolution imaging. Most multiphoton microscopy …

Membrane imaging by second-harmonic generation microscopy

L Moreaux, O Sandre, J Mertz - Journal of the Optical Society of …, 2000‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a detailed analysis of the generation of second-harmonic radiation from
biological membranes labeled with a styryl dye. In particular, we consider the high …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging coronary artery microstructure using second-harmonic and two-photon fluorescence microscopy

A Zoumi, X Lu, GS Kassab, BJ Tromberg - Biophysical journal, 2004‏ - cell.com
The microstructural basis for the mechanical properties of blood vessels has not been
directly determined because of the lack of a nondestructive method that yields a three …

[ספר][B] Second-order nonlinear optical characterization techniques: an introduction

T Verbiest, K Clays, V Rodriguez - 2009‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Although chemists, biochemists, biologists, and material scientists are often interested in
using nonlinear optical techniques for characterizing their samples, they seldom have the …

Second harmonic generation imaging of endogenous structural proteins

W Mohler, AC Millard, PJ Campagnola - Methods, 2003‏ - Elsevier
We show that structural protein arrays consisting largely of collagen, myosin, and tubulin,
and their associated proteins can be imaged in three dimensions with high contrast and …