Slide-free histology via MUSE: UV surface excitation microscopy for imaging unsectioned tissue
(Conference Presentation)

Richard M. Levenson M.D.; Zachary Harmany; Stavros G. Demos; Farzad Fereidouni

doi:10.1117/12.2219407

26 April 2016 Slide-free histology via MUSE: UV surface excitation microscopy for imaging unsectioned tissue (Conference Presentation)

Richard M. Levenson M.D., Zachary Harmany, Stavros G. Demos, Farzad Fereidouni

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Proceedings Volume 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis; 97030J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219407
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Widely used methods for preparing and viewing tissue specimens at microscopic resolution have not changed for over a century. They provide high-quality images but can involve time-frames of hours or even weeks, depending on logistics. There is increasing interest in slide-free methods for rapid tissue analysis that can both decrease turn-around times and reduce costs. One new approach is MUSE (microscopy with UV surface excitation), which exploits the shallow penetration of UV light to excite fluorescent signals from only the most superficial tissue elements. The method is non-destructive, and eliminates requirement for conventional histology processing, formalin fixation, paraffin embedding, or thin sectioning. It requires no lasers, confocal, multiphoton or optical coherence tomography optics. MUSE generates diagnostic-quality histological images that can be rendered to resemble conventional hematoxylin- and eosin-stained samples, with enhanced topographical information, from fresh or fixed, but unsectioned tissue, rapidly, with high resolution, simply and inexpensively. We anticipate that there could be widespread adoption in research facilities, hospital-based and stand-alone clinical settings, in local or regional pathology labs, as well as in low-resource environments.

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Richard M. Levenson M.D., Zachary Harmany, Stavros G. Demos, and Farzad Fereidouni "Slide-free histology via MUSE: UV surface excitation microscopy for imaging unsectioned tissue (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 97030J (26 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219407

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