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Bolus tracking with nanofilter-based multispectral videography for capturing microvasculature hemodynamics.

ABSTRACT: Multispectral imaging is a highly desirable modality for material-based analysis in diverse areas such as food production and processing, satellite-based reconnaissance, and biomedical imaging. Here, we present nanofilter-based multispectral videography (nMSV) in the 700 to 950?nm range made possible by the tunable extraordinary-optical-transmission properties of 3D metallic nanostructures. Measurements made with nMSV during a bolus injection of an intravascular tracer in the ear of a piglet resulted in spectral videos of the microvasculature. Analysis of the multispectral videos generated contrast measurements representative of arterial pulsation, the distribution of microvascular transit times, as well as a separation of the venous and arterial signals arising from within the tissue. Therefore, nMSV is capable of acquiring serial multispectral images relevant to tissue hemodynamics, which may have application to the detection and identification of skin cancer.

SUBMITTER: Najiminaini M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3998030 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bolus tracking with nanofilter-based multispectral videography for capturing microvasculature hemodynamics.

Najiminaini Mohamadreza M Kaminska Bozena B St Lawrence Keith K Carson Jeffrey J L JJ

Scientific reports 20140424

Multispectral imaging is a highly desirable modality for material-based analysis in diverse areas such as food production and processing, satellite-based reconnaissance, and biomedical imaging. Here, we present nanofilter-based multispectral videography (nMSV) in the 700 to 950 nm range made possible by the tunable extraordinary-optical-transmission properties of 3D metallic nanostructures. Measurements made with nMSV during a bolus injection of an intravascular tracer in the ear of a piglet res ...[more]

PMID: 24759647

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