Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: fundamentals and advances in instrumentation, analysis, and applications

R Datta, TM Heaster, JT Sharick… - … of biomedical optics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful technique to
distinguish the unique molecular environment of fluorophores. FLIM measures the time a …

[HTML][HTML] FLIM as a promising tool for cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring

Y Ouyang, Y Liu, ZM Wang, Z Liu, M Wu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) has been rapidly developed over the past
30 years and widely applied in biomedical engineering. Recent progress in fluorophore …

Classification of T-cell activation via autofluorescence lifetime imaging

AJ Walsh, KP Mueller, K Tweed, I Jones… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The function of a T cell depends on its subtype and activation state. Here, we show that
imaging of the autofluorescence lifetime signals of quiescent and activated T cells can be …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic heterogeneity in patient tumor-derived organoids by primary site and drug treatment

JT Sharick, CM Walsh, CM Sprackling, CA Pasch… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
New tools are needed to match cancer patients with effective treatments. Patient-derived
organoids offer a high-throughput platform to personalize treatments and discover novel …

Probing organoid metabolism using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM): The next frontier of drug discovery and disease understanding

M Barroso, MG Monaghan, R Niesner… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organoid models have been used to address important questions in developmental and
cancer biology, tissue repair, advanced modelling of disease and therapies, among other …

Light-sheet autofluorescence lifetime imaging with a single-photon avalanche diode array

K Samimi, DE Desa, W Lin, K Weiss… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of the metabolic co-enzyme
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate)[NAD (P) H] is a popular method to monitor …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies to assess drug response and heterogeneity in patient-derived cancer organoids

MC Skala, DA Deming, JD Kratz - Annual review of biomedical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Patient-derived cancer organoids (PDCOs) are organotypic 3D cultures grown from patient
tumor samples. PDCOs provide an exciting opportunity to study drug response and …

Mapping spatiotemporal heterogeneity in tumor profiles by integrating high-throughput imaging and omics analysis

PA Patkulkar, AR Subbalakshmi, MK Jolly… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intratumoral heterogeneity associates with more aggressive disease progression and worse
patient outcomes. Understanding the reasons enabling the emergence of such …

Microphysiological head and neck cancer model identifies novel role of lymphatically secreted monocyte migration inhibitory factor in cancer cell migration and …

RC Yada, DE Desa, AA Gillette, E Bartels, PM Harari… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Regional metastasis of head and neck cancer (HNC) is prevalent (approximately 50% of
patients at diagnosis), yet the underlying drivers and mechanisms of lymphatic spread …

[HTML][HTML] Label-free metabolic and structural profiling of dynamic biological samples using multimodal optical microscopy with sensorless adaptive optics

RR Iyer, JE Sorrells, L Yang, EJ Chaney… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Label-free optical microscopy has matured as a noninvasive tool for biological imaging; yet,
it is criticized for its lack of specificity, slow acquisition and processing times, and weak and …