Scattering and absorption properties modification of optically cleared skeletal muscles: an ex vivo study

AH Sheet, O Hamdy, M Abdel-Harith - JOSA A, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical clearing is a relatively new approach to enhancing the optical transparency of
biological tissues by reducing their scattering properties. The optical clearing effect is …

Combining laser-irradiation and glycerol immersion of skeletal muscles to improve their optical transparency

AH Sheet, O Hamdy, Z Abdel-Salam… - Optics & Laser …, 2022 - Elsevier
Optical diagnostic methods are still suffering from relatively low resolution due to low light
penetration produced by the multiple scattering properties of biological tissues. Light …

Influence of laser beam aberrations compensation and spot size on the transmittance in native and optically cleared skeletal muscles

AH Sheet, RM Abdelazeem, O Hamdy, M Abdel-Harith - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
Light propagation and penetration inside tissues highly affect the optical imaging of
biological tissues. Two major factors influence that; the first is associated with the dense …

Skeletal muscle dispersion (400‐1000 nm) and kinetics at optical clearing

LM Oliveira, MI Carvalho, EM Nogueira… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle dispersion and optical clearing (OC) kinetics were studied experimentally to
prove the existence of the refractive index (RI) matching mechanism of OC. Sample …

Optical measurements of rat muscle samples under treatment with ethylene glycol and glucose

L Oliveira, MI Carvalho, E Nogueira… - Journal of Innovative …, 2013 - World Scientific
With the objective to study the variation of optical properties of rat muscle during optical
clearing, we have performed a set of optical measurements from that kind of tissue. The …

Quantitative control of optical clearing effects studied with tissue-like phantom

J Jiang, W Chen, Q Gong, K Xu - Journal of Innovative Optical …, 2010 - World Scientific
Tissue optical clearing by use of optical clearing agents (OCAs) has been proven to have
potential to reduce the highly scattering effect of biological tissues in optical techniques …

Study on the refractive index matching effect of ultrasound on optical clearing of bio-tissues based on the derivative total reflection method

H Zeng, J Wang, Q Ye, Z Deng, J Mei… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, the tissue optical clearing (OC) technique in the biomedicine field has drawn
lots of attention. Various physical and chemical methods have been introduced to improve …

Study on optical clearing effects by using tissue-like phantom

J Jiang, W Chen, Q Gong, RK Wang… - … and Fluctuations in …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Previous studies have focused on different tissue samples treated with optical clearing
agents (OCAs), which showed premising results of optical clearing on decreasing light …

Optical clearing mechanisms characterization in muscle

L Oliveira, MI Carvalho, E Nogueira… - Journal of Innovative …, 2016 - World Scientific
Optical immersion clearing is a technique that has been widely studied for more than two
decades and that is used to originate a temporary transparency effect in biological tissues. If …

Quantitative analysis of dehydration in porcine skin for assessing mechanism of optical clearing

T Yu, X Wen, VV Tuchin, Q Luo… - Journal of biomedical …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Dehydration induced by optical clearing agents (OCAs) can improve tissue optical
transmittance; however, current studies merely gave some qualitative descriptions. We …