The viscoelastic properties of the vitreous humor measured using an optically trapped local probe

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8097, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Watts, Fiona ^a   Tan, Lay Ean ^a   Tassieri, Manlio ^b   McAlinden, Niall ^a   Wilson, Clive G ^a   Girkin, John M ^a,c   Wright, Amanda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Micro rheology; Optical tweezers; Viscoelasticity; Vitreous humor

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOCAL PROBES; MICRO-RHEOLOGY; NON-NEWTONIAN; OPTICALLY TRAPPED BEADS; TIME-SCALES; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VITREOUS HUMOR;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CCD CAMERAS; DRUG DELIVERY; ELASTICITY; MICROMANIPULATORS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROBES; VISCOSITY;

VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 80054080312     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.895192     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Bishop, A., I., Nieminen, T., A., Heckenberg, N., R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., "Optical Microrheology Using Rotating Laser-Trapped Particles", Physical Review Letters, 92, 198104-1 (2004).
2. Brau, R., R., Ferrer, J., M., Lee, H., Castro, C., E., Tam, B., K., Tarsa, P., B., Matsudaira, P., Boyce, M., C., Kamm, R., D. and Lang, M., J., "Passive and active microrheology with optical tweezers", Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 9, S103-S112 (2007).
3. Fischer, M. and Berg-Sørenson, K., "Calibration of trapping force and response function of optical tweezers in viscoelastic media", Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 9, S239-S250 (2007).
4. Ługowski, R., Kołodziejczyk, B. and Kawata, Y., "Application of laser-trapping technique for measuring the three-dimensional distribution of viscosity", Optics Communications, 202, 1-8 (2002).
5. Pesce, G., Sasso, A. and Fusco, S., "Viscosity measurements on micron-size scale using optical tweezers", Review of Scientific Instruments, 76, 115105-1 (2005).
6. Pralle, A., Florin, E.-L., Stelzer, E. H. K. and Hörber, J. K. H., "Local viscosity probed by photonic force microscopy", Applied Physics A, 66, S71-S73 (1998).
7. Preece, D., Warren, R., Evans, R. M. L., Gibson, G. M., Padgett, M. J., Cooper J. M. and Tassieri, M. "Optical tweezers: wideband microrheology", Journal of Optics 13 (4), 044022-044028 (2011).
8. Tassieri, M., Gibson, G. M., Evans, R. M. L., Yao, A. M., Warren, R., Padgett M. J. and Cooper, J. M., "Measuring storage and loss moduli using optical tweezers: Broadband microrheology", Phys. Rev. E 81 (2), 026308-026313 (2010).
9. Soman, N. and Banerjee, R., "Artificial vitreous replacements", Bio-medical Materials and Engineering, 13, 59-74 (2003).
10. Bishop, P., "Structural macromolecules and supramolecular organisation of the vitreous gel", Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 19 (3), 323 to 344 (2000).
11. Sebag, J., "Biochemistry of the vitreous, " Chap. 3 in The Vitreous: Structure, function and pathobiology, pp. 17-33, Springer-Verlag, New York Inc. (1989).
12. Sebag, J., "Molecular biology of pharmacologic vitreolysis", Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc., 103, 473-494 (2005).
13. www.nei.nih.gov/health/eyediagram/eyeimages3.asp
14. Sebag, J., "Macromolecular structure of the corpus vitreous", Prog. Polym. Sci., 23, 415-446 (1998).
15. Neuman, K. and Block, S., "Optical trapping", Review of Scientific Instruments 75, 2787 (2004).
16. Ashkin, A., "Forces of a Single-Beam Gradient Laser Trap on a Dielectric Sphere in the Ray Optics Regime", Methods in cell biology 55, 1-27 (1997).
17. Gibson, G., Leach, J., Keen, S., Wright, A. J. and M. J. Padgett, "Measuring the accuracy of particle position and force in optical tweezers using high-speed video microscopy", Opt. Express 16(19), 14561-14570 (2008).
18. www.physics.gla.ac.uk/Optics/projects/tweezers/software/