Multi-photon imaging offer a large potential to characterize both the morphology and molecular composition (= morphochemistry) of cells or tissue. Particularly interesting is the establishment of multimodal nonlinear microscopy for medical purposes. Investigating tissues of different morphochemistry underlines the versatility of non-linear multimodal imaging, e.g., to distinguish between healthy tissue and tissue altered by tumors, or drugs. Here, we show that the interplay between multimodal nonlinear imaging (CARS, TPEF, SHG) either in a microscopic or endoscopic setting in combination with innovative artificial intelligence approaches and fs-laser ablation opens exciting new ways for an intraoperative histopathological tissue analysis and selective removal.
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