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30 January 2020 Translation of two-photon microscopy to the clinic: multimodal multiphoton CARS tomography of in vivo human skin
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Abstract

Two-photon microscopes have been successfully translated into clinical imaging tools to obtain high-resolution optical biopsies for in vivo histology. We report on clinical multiphoton coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) tomography based on two tunable ultrashort near-infrared laser beams for label-free in vivo multimodal skin imaging. The multiphoton biopsies were obtained with the compact tomograph “MPTflex-CARS” using a photonic crystal fiber, an optomechanical articulated arm, and a four-detector-360 deg measurement head. The multiphoton tomograph has been employed to patients in a hospital with diseased skin. The clinical study involved 16 subjects, 8 patients with atopic dermatitis, 4 patients with psoriasis vulgaris, and 4 volunteers served as control. Two-photon cellular autofluorescence lifetime, second harmonic generation (SHG) of collagen, and CARS of intratissue lipids/proteins have been detected with single-photon sensitivity, submicron spatial resolution, and picosecond temporal resolution. The most important signal was the autofluorescence from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide [NAD(P)H]. The SHG signal from collagen was mainly used to detect the epidermal–dermal junction and to calculate the ratio elastin/collagen. The CARS/Raman signal provided add-on information. Based on this view on the disease-affected skin on a subcellular level, skin areas affected by dermatitis and by psoriasis could be clearly identified. Multimodal multiphoton tomographs may become important label-free clinical high-resolution imaging tools for in vivo skin histology to realize rapid early diagnosis as well as treatment control.

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Karsten König, Hans Georg Breunig, Ana Batista, Andeas Schindele, Michael Zieger, and Martin Kaatz "Translation of two-photon microscopy to the clinic: multimodal multiphoton CARS tomography of in vivo human skin," Journal of Biomedical Optics 25(1), 014515 (30 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.25.1.014515
Received: 11 October 2019; Accepted: 16 January 2020; Published: 30 January 2020
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KEYWORDS
Skin

Second-harmonic generation

In vivo imaging

Luminescence

Two photon excitation microscopy

Femtosecond phenomena

Fluorescence lifetime imaging

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