Identifying mitosis deep in tissue using dynamic light scattering fluctuation spectroscopy

Ran An; Kwan Jeong; John Turek; David Nolte

doi:10.1117/12.907654

9 February 2012 Identifying mitosis deep in tissue using dynamic light scattering fluctuation spectroscopy

Ran An, Kwan Jeong, John Turek, David Nolte

Proceedings Volume 8222, Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics IX; 82220G (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907654
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In the cell cycle, mitosis is the most dramatic phase, especially in Telophase and Cytokinesis. For single cells and cell monolayer, there are precise microscopic studies of mitosis, while for 3-D tissue such as tumor spheroids the light signal is obscured by the high background of diffusely scattered light. Therefore, the mitosis phase cannot be detected deep inside 3-D tissue using conventional microscopic techniques. In this work, we detect mitosis in living tissue using Tissue Dynamic Imaging (TDI). We trace depth-gated dynamic speckles from a tumor spheroid (up to 1mm in diameter) using coherence-gated digital holography imaging. Frequency-versus-time spectrograms depend on specific types of perturbation such as cell shape change, membrane undulation and cell organelles movements. By using these spectral responses as functional finger prints, we can identify mitosis events from different voxels at a specified depth inside tumor spheroids. By performing B-scans of the tumor spheroid, we generate 3-D mitosis maps (or movies) for the entire tumor spheroids. We show that for healthy tumor spheroids, the mitosis events only happen within the proliferating shell. We also compare results when anti-cancer drugs are applied to arrest, release and synchronize mitosis. This shows the application of TDI for drug screening. The technique can identify and monitor complex motilities inside 3-D tissue with a strong potential for drug diagnosis and developmental biology studies.

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Ran An, Kwan Jeong, John Turek, and David Nolte "Identifying mitosis deep in tissue using dynamic light scattering fluctuation spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 8222, Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics IX, 82220G (9 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907654

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