Abstract
.Mechanical forces play an important role in the behavior and development of biological systems and disease at all spatial scales, from cells and their constituents to tissues and organs. Such forces have a profound influence on the health, structural integrity, and normal function of cells and organs. Accurate knowledge of cell and tissue biomechanical properties is essential to map the distribution of forces and mechanical cues in biological systems. Cell and tissue biomechanical properties are also known to be important on their own as indicators of health or disease states. Hence, optical elastography and biomechanics methods can aid in the understanding and clinical diagnosis of a wide variety of diseases. We provide a brief overview and highlight of the Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics VI conference, which took place in San Francisco, February 2 and 3, 2019, as a part of Photonics West symposium.
Highlights
This is the first attempt to provide a brief overview and highlight of the Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics VI conference, which took place in San Francisco, February 2 and 3, 2019, as a part of Photonics West symposium.[1]
The results show that optical coherence tomography (OCT) structural imaging combined with optical coherence elastography (OCE) can detect minute changes in colon tissue optical scattering and elastic properties, which may be useful for detection various colon diseases, such as colitis and colon cancer.[34]
Optical elastography is the use of optical imaging techniques to characterize tissues and cells based on their elastic and viscoelastic mechanical properties
Summary
This is the first attempt to provide a brief overview and highlight of the Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics VI conference, which took place in San Francisco, February 2 and 3, 2019, as a part of Photonics West symposium.[1]. In deploying the high-resolution and multimodal capabilities of optical imaging, optical elastography builds on and complements related methods for biomechanics, such as atomic force microscopy, traction force microscopy, and microrheology, and the fields of US and magnetic resonance elastography This conference provides a slice of the most recent advancements in biomedical optics, biophotonics, US elastography, MRI elastography, and biomechanical methods and technologies applied or related to estimation, monitoring, and functional assessment of the mechanical properties of normal and pathological biomaterials at all spatial scales, from cells and their constituents to tissues and organs. Readers can find an overview of these topics as well as highlights from keynote and poster sessions
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