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13 July 2004 Multiphoton imaging of excised normal skin and keloid scar: preliminary investigations
Michael B. Brewer, Alvin T. Yeh, Behrooz Torkian M.D., Chung-Ho Sun, Bruce J. Tromberg, Brian Jet-Fei Wong M.D.
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Proceedings Volume 5312, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems XIV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543540
Event: Biomedical Optics 2004, 2004, San Jose, CA, United States
Abstract
Wound healing is a physiologic process that acts to repair disruptions in the continuity of tissue caused by injury or surgical incision. Keloids and hypertrophic scars are forms of aberrant wound healing, which are characterized by the overproduction of collagen, resulting in an excessive amount of scar tissue. Keloid tumors, by definition, grow outside the boundary of the original tissue damage. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is an imaging technique which allows imaging of living specimens, without the use of fixation or stains. Images of collagen fibers are produced by the second harmonic signal intensity generated by endogenous fluorescence through excitation by infrared laser light. A postauricular keloid tumor was excised from a patient. The tissue was dissected, and a portion was imaged using MPM. Normal skin tissue was isolated from a patient undergoing a facelift. A portion of this tissue was also dissected and imaged using MPM. MPM images were taken using a 63X water immersion objective lens on a two-photon microscope and a titanium-sapphire laser. Images were taken beginning at the surface of the tissue and moving in at intervals of 200 nm to a final depth of 30 μm. The two-photon images were used to reconstruct three-dimensional representations of the collagen matrix within the tissues, which are readily contrasted. Density of the collagen within each tissue was also ascertained using depth dependant decay of the image intensity. Multiphoton imaging was successfully used to image the collagen matrix of normal skin and a keloid scar, demonstrating differences in their microstructures.
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Michael B. Brewer, Alvin T. Yeh, Behrooz Torkian M.D., Chung-Ho Sun, Bruce J. Tromberg, and Brian Jet-Fei Wong M.D. "Multiphoton imaging of excised normal skin and keloid scar: preliminary investigations", Proc. SPIE 5312, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems XIV, (13 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543540
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KEYWORDS
Tissues
Collagen
Skin
Tumors
Multiphoton microscopy
Wound healing
Luminescence
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