Mapping mechanical properties of biological materials via an add-on Brillouin module to confocal microscopes

J Zhang, G Scarcelli - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Several techniques have been developed over the past few decades to assess the
mechanical properties of biological samples, which has fueled a rapid growth in the fields of …

Brillouin microscopy

I Kabakova, J Zhang, Y Xiang, S Caponi… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The field of Brillouin microscopy and imaging was established approximately 20 years ago,
thanks to the development of non-scanning high-resolution optical spectrometers. Since …

High-sensitivity and high-specificity biomechanical imaging by stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy

I Remer, R Shaashoua, N Shemesh, A Ben-Zvi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Label-free, non-contact imaging with mechanical contrast and optical sectioning is a
substantial challenge in microscopy. Spontaneous Brillouin scattering microscopy meets this …

Effects of channels and micropores in honeycomb scaffolds on the reconstruction of segmental bone defects

K Shibahara, K Hayashi, Y Nakashima… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The reconstruction of critical-sized segmental bone defects is a key challenge in orthopedics
because of its intractability despite technological advancements. To overcome this …

Acoustic, phononic, Brillouin light scattering and Faraday wave-based frequency combs: Physical foundations and applications

IS Maksymov, BQ Huy Nguyen, A Pototsky, S Suslov - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Frequency combs (FCs)—spectra containing equidistant coherent peaks—have enabled
researchers and engineers to measure the frequencies of complex signals with high …

Biomechanical sensing using gas bubbles oscillations in liquids and adjacent technologies: Theory and practical applications

IS Maksymov, BQ Huy Nguyen, SA Suslov - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gas bubbles present in liquids underpin many natural phenomena and human-developed
technologies that improve the quality of life. Since all living organisms are predominantly …

Brillouin imaging for studies of micromechanics in biology and biomedicine: from current state-of-the-art to future clinical translation

C Poon, J Chou, M Cortie… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Brillouin imaging (BI) is increasingly recognized to be a powerful technique that enables non-
invasive measurement of the mechanical properties of cells and tissues on a microscopic …

Toward peripheral nerve mechanical characterization using Brillouin imaging spectroscopy

V Cheburkanov, J Du, DM Brogan, MY Berezin… - …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Peripheral nerves are viscoelastic tissues with unique elastic characteristics.
Imaging of peripheral nerve elasticity is important in medicine, particularly in the context of …

Nonlinear Brillouin spectroscopy: what makes it a better tool for biological viscoelastic measurements

CW Ballmann, Z Meng, VV Yakovlev - Biomedical optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Brillouin spectroscopy is an emerging tool in biomedical imaging and sensing. It is capable
of assessing the high-frequency viscoelastic longitudinal modulus with microscopic spatial …

Mechano-chemistry of human femoral diaphysis revealed by correlative Brillouin–Raman microspectroscopy

MA Cardinali, M Govoni, D Dallari, S Caponi… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Brillouin–Raman microspectroscopy is presented as an innovative label-free all-optical
investigation approachable to characterize the chemical composition and the mechanical …