Optical coherence tomography and confocal fluorescence microscopy as a combined method for studying morphological changes in lung dynamics

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Abstract

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a severe pulmonary disease leading to hypoxemia accompanied by a reduced compliance and partial edema of the lung. Most of the patients have to be ventilated to compensate for the lack of oxygen. The treatment is strongly connected with ventilator induced lung injury (VILI), which is believed to introduce further stress to the lung and changes in its elastic performance. A thorough understanding of the organs micro-structure is crucial to gain more insight into the course of the disease. Due to backscattering of near-infrared light, detailed description of lung morphology can be obtained using optical coherence tomography (OCT), a non-invasive, non-contact, high resolution and fast three-dimensional imaging technique. One of its drawbacks lies in the non-specificity of light distribution in relation to defined substances, like elastic biomolecules. Using fluorescence detection, these chemical components can be visualized by introducing specifically binding fluorophores. This study presents a combined setup for studying alveolar compliance depending on volume changes and elastic fiber distributions. Simultaneously acquired OCT and confocal fluorescence images allow an entire view into morphological rearrangements during ventilation for an ex vivo mouse model using continuous pulmonary airway pressure at different values.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEndoscopic Microscopy VI
EditorsGuillermo J. Tearney, Thomas D. Wang
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume7893
ISSN1605-7422

Conference

TitleEndoscopic Microscopy VI
Duration23 - 24 January 2011
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

Scopus 79955735112
ORCID /0000-0002-7267-7016/work/154741756
ORCID /0000-0003-0554-2178/work/154741776

Keywords

Keywords

  • elastin imaging, fluorescence microscopy, lung compliance, lung dynamics, OCT