1ISEP (Portugal) 2Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal) 3Prokhorov General Physics Institute (Russian Federation) 4Bauman Moscow State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation) 5Saratov State Univ. (Russian Federation) 6Precision Mechanics and Control Institute (Russian Federation) 7National Research Tomsk State Univ. (Russian Federation)
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The concept of ‘tissue optical windows’ and method of optical clearing (OC) based on controllable and reversible modification of tissue optical properties by their soaking with a biocompatible optical clearing agent (OCA) are prsented. Fundamentals and major mechanisms of OC allowing one to enhance optical imaging facilities and laser treatment efficiency of living tissues are described. Perspectives of immersion optical clearing/contrasting technique aiming to enhance optical imaging of living tissues by using different imaging modalities working in the ultra-broad wavelength range from deep UV to terahertz waves are discussed. It demonstrated that immersion OC method can be applied to evaluate the characteristic diffusion properties of water and OCA in various tissues and even discriminate between the mobile water content in normal and pathological tissues.
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Luís M. Oliveira, Kirill I. Zaytsev, Valery V. Tuchin, "Improved biomedical imaging over a wide spectral range from UV to THz towards multimodality," Proc. SPIE 11585, Biophotonics—Riga 2020, 1158503 (28 October 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584999