High-resolution whole organ imaging using two-photon tissue cytometry

J Biomed Opt. 2007 Jan-Feb;12(1):014015. doi: 10.1117/1.2435626.

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3-D) tissue imaging offers substantial benefits to a wide range of biomedical investigations from cardiovascular biology, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease to cancer. Two-photon tissue cytometry is a novel technique based on high-speed multiphoton microscopy coupled with automated histological sectioning, which can quantify tissue morphology and physiology throughout entire organs with subcellular resolution. Furthermore, two-photon tissue cytometry offers all the benefits of fluorescence-based approaches including high specificity and sensitivity and appropriateness for molecular imaging of gene and protein expression. We use two-photon tissue cytometry to image an entire mouse heart at subcellular resolution to quantify the 3-D morphology of cardiac microvasculature and myocyte morphology spanning almost five orders of magnitude in length scales.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Image Cytometry / instrumentation*
  • Image Cytometry / methods
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Image Enhancement / methods
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton / methods
  • Myocardium / cytology*
  • Myocytes, Cardiac / ultrastructure*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tissue Culture Techniques / instrumentation
  • Tissue Culture Techniques / methods