Non-linear and ultra high-speed imaging for explorations of the murine and human heart

Lars Kaestner; Peter Lipp

doi:10.1117/12.728488

13 July 2007 Non-linear and ultra high-speed imaging for explorations of the murine and human heart

Lars Kaestner, Peter Lipp

Proceedings Volume 6633, Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science; 66330K (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728488
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2007, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Cardiac failure is still one of the mayor reasons for death in the Western population but the pathophysiology of the molecular processes in the heart is far from being completely understood. Therefore further basic research is necessary. With recent developments of optical technologies novel tools to investigate cardiac physiology and pathophysiology became available. They comprise non-linear imaging techniques such as second harmonic generation imaging and fast two-photon excitation imaging of cardiac tissue. In addition, high-speed multi-beam two-photon imaging as well as ultra-high speed single beam single photon 2D-confocal imaging offer novel approaches to study cellular and subcellular signalling events in cardiac tissue and/or single cardiac myocytes. Here we introduce and discuss these new technologies and their practical application to study cardiac physiology and pathophysiology.

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Lars Kaestner and Peter Lipp "Non-linear and ultra high-speed imaging for explorations of the murine and human heart", Proc. SPIE 6633, Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science, 66330K (13 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728488

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