Noninvasive 3D vital imaging and characterization of notochordal cells of the intervertebral disc by femtosecond near-infrared two-photon laser scanning microscopy and spatial-volume rendering

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-304

  Guehring, Thorsten ^a,b   Urban, Jill P ^a   Cui, Zhanfeng ^c   Tirlapur, Uday K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D scaffolds; Femtosecond; Intervertebral disc; Notochordal cells; Two photon

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CYTOLOGY; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTONS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE;

3D SCAFFOLDS; CHONDROCYTES; FEMTOSECONDS; IN-VITRO; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED; NOTOCHORDAL CELL; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPIES;

CELLS;

ALGINIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EX VIVO STUDY; FILTER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LASER MICROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

BOVINAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 42049095123     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20557     Document Type: Article

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