Optical clearing of biological tissues: prospects of application in medical diagnostics and phototherapy

A review of specific features and methods of optical clearing and related interaction of light with biotissues is presented. Physical and molecular mechanisms of immersion, compression, and photodynamic/photothermal optical clearing of some fibrous and cellular biotissues are discussed. The possibil...

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Main Authors: Elina A. Genina, Alexey N. Bashkatov, Yury P. Sinichkin, Irina Yu. Yanina, Valery V. Tuchin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Samara National Research University 2015-03-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering
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Online Access:http://jbpe.ssau.ru/index.php/JBPE/article/view/1992