• DocumentCode
    689183
  • Title

    Imaging the noncentrosymmetric structural organization of tissues with interferometric Second Harmonic Generation microscopy

  • Author

    Rivard, Maxime ; Popov, Konstantin ; Laliberte, Mathieu ; Bertrand-Grenier, Antony ; Martin, F. ; Pepin, Henri ; Pfeffer, Christian P. ; Brown, C. ; Rammuno, Lora ; Legare, Francois

  • Author_Institution
    Centre Energie Mater. Telecommun., Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci., Varennes, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We image the relative orientation of organized groups of noncentrosymmetric molecules (like collagen or myosin) at the micron scale in biological tissues by combining interferometry and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; light interferometry; molecular biophysics; optical harmonic generation; optical microscopy; proteins; SHG; biological tissues; collagen; interferometric second harmonic generation microscopy; myosin; noncentrosymmetric molecules; noncentrosymmetric structural organization imaging; relative orientation organized group image; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Interference; Microscopy; Muscles; Proteins; Tendons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833565