{"title":"The mechanism and influencing factors on photodynamic purging of leukemia cells","authors":"Zhongming Li, Zhen-xi Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.741594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741594","url":null,"abstract":"The paper compared the response of HL60 cells with peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) after 5-ALA PDT for different periods of time and then followed by irradiating with different wavebands for different fluences. The results of parameter experiments were obtained: 1 × 105/mL HL60 cell was incubated with 1 mmol/L ALA in dark for 4 h and the maximum fluorescence of PpIX level appeared; then irradiated with 410 nm (4 mW/cm2) for 14.4 J/cm2 and maximum photodamage to membrane and mitochondrial function of HL60 cell resulted. Analyzed the experimental results of references, we got that the effect of photodynamic purging of leukemia cells may be modulated by the leukemia cell type; the photosensitizer's type, dose, and its location point; the incubation time and condition; the light wavelength and its dosage. If the light is delivered at a high rate, significant heating of a molecule and its surrounding may take place. A too low dosage has no effect at all or will result in high relapse rate due to the presence of cancer cells. The wavelength and intensity of light required to carry out photopurging is determined by the absorption properties of the photosensitizer. The light dose actually received by the photosensitizer and tissue may be higher or lower depending on the manner of irradiation.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122168238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guannan Chen, ZhongJian Teng, Kuntao Yang, Rong Chen
{"title":"A rapid gradient segmentation method for edge recognition of biomedical image","authors":"Guannan Chen, ZhongJian Teng, Kuntao Yang, Rong Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.741438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741438","url":null,"abstract":"Image edge recognition is a crucial aspect of biomedical image processing. In this paper, a rapid gradient segmentation method based on the depth-first traverse of images is presented. This method defines the data structure for the pixel firstly, estimate and catch gradient from four pixels around the arbitrary point coming from an arbitrary pixel of image. If the pixel satisfies the feature of edge, the edge perpendicular to the directions of gradient is processed by depth-first traverse, the pixels are marked at the same time. It will withdraw when no pixels satisfy the feature in the directions, then depth-first traverse from the next direction with gradient, mark the pixel as corner, and traverse the image completely. The segmentation method has been applied to edge recognition of color biomedical image and other images. The experimental results showed that edges and corners of biomedical image can be segmented obviously, and be easy to identify.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123689124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal and spatial characteristics of bid and bax translocation during UV-induced apoptosis","authors":"Yinyuan Wu, D. Xing, Lei Liu, Tongsheng Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.741588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741588","url":null,"abstract":"UV irradiation is a DNA-damage agent that triggers apoptosis through both the membrane death receptor and the mitochondrial apoptotic signaling pathways. Bid and Bax are two important proapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family, localize largely in the cytoplasm and redistribute to mitochondria in response to most apoptotic stimuli. Cells deficient in Bax are resistant to UV-induced apoptosis, cells deficient in Bid are less susceptible than normal cells in response to DNA damage. Thus, studying characteristics of Bid and Bax translocation by UV irradiation is very important for us to understand the cellular signaling mechanisms mediating UV-induced apoptosis. In this study, to investigate Bid and Bax translocation in real time in a single cell by UV irradiation, we transfected Bid-CFP, YFP-Bax and DsRed-Mit into human lung adenocarcinoma cells (ASTC-a-1), then observed temporal and spatial characteristics of Bid and Bax translocation by laser confocal scanning microscope imaging technique. Our results showed that Bax translocation was earlier than Bid translocation and the average duration of Bax translocation was about 20-30 min during UV-induced apoptosis.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128774746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nondestructive determination of pear internal quality indices by near-infrared spectrometry","authors":"Yande Liu, Xing-miao Chen, Aiguo Ouyang, Y. Ying","doi":"10.1117/12.741474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741474","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of the study were to establish relationships between the nondestructive near-infrared (NIR) spectral measurements and the major internal quality indices of pear ('Fengshui', Jiangxi) fruit, and to evaluate the use of NIR spectrometry in measuring the internal quality indices of pear fruit. Intact pear fruit were measured by reflectance NIR in 350-1800 nm range. In this study, Calibration models relating NIR spectra to soluble solids content (SSC), and firmness were developed based on multi-linear regression (MLR), Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square (PLS) regression with respect to the logarithms of the reflectance reciprocal log (1/R), its first derivative D1log (1/R)and second derivative D2log (1/R). The best combination, based on the prediction results, was MLR models with respect to D1log (1/R) at equatorial position of pear fruit. Prediction with MLR models resulted correlation coefficients (Rp) of 0.9151 and 0.8125, and root mean standard error of prediction (RMSEP) of 0.6834 and 1.3778 for SSC and firmness, respectively. The preliminary results of the built models indicated that NIR spectroscopy could provide an accurate, reliable and nondestructive method for assessing the internal quality indices of pear fruit.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"52 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120863973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrasound-modulated optical phenomena in scattering media driven by a pulsed transducer","authors":"Jiali Cai, Li-li Zhu, Cuncheng Weng, Hui Li","doi":"10.1117/12.741366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741366","url":null,"abstract":"In this presentation, several ultrasound-modulated optical phenomena in a tissue phantom were observed by a pulsed ultrasound transducer. Some factors affected the modulated signal value were studied including the changing of the experimental conditions such as the distance between the focused volume of ultrasound beam and the detector as well as the frequency of ultrasound transducer. The experimental results and the analysis suggest that a compositive parameter concerning the intensity of the modulated signal, namely the modulation depth which is a key parameter to measure the scattering property even as a sensor to indicate the glucose concentration.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128463975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhenyu Zhou, Hongyu Yang, Yun Liu, Zongcai Ruan, Qingming Luo, H. Gong, Zuhong Lu
{"title":"A novel analysis method for near infrared spectroscopy based on Hilbert-Huang transform","authors":"Zhenyu Zhou, Hongyu Yang, Yun Liu, Zongcai Ruan, Qingming Luo, H. Gong, Zuhong Lu","doi":"10.1117/12.741479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741479","url":null,"abstract":"Near Infrared Imager (NIRI) has been widely used to access the brain functional activity non-invasively. We use a portable, multi-channel and continuous-wave NIR topography instrument to measure the concentration changes of each hemoglobin species and map cerebral cortex functional activation. By extracting some essential features from the BOLD signals, optical tomography is able to be a new way of neuropsychological studies. Fourier spectral analysis provides a common framework for examining the distribution of global energy in the frequency domain. However, this method assumes that the signal should be stationary, which limits its application in non-stationary system. The hemoglobin species concentration changes are of such kind. In this work we develop a new signal processing method using Hilbert-Huang transform to perform spectral analysis of the functional NIRI signals. Compared with wavelet based multi-resolution analysis (MRA), we demonstrated the extraction of task related signal for observation of activation in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in vision stimulation experiment. This method provides a new analysis tool for functional NIRI signals. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach provides the unique method for reconstructing target signal without losing original information and enables us to understand the episode of functional NIRI more precisely.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131239628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single tapered fiber optical tweezers","authors":"Zhihai Liu, C. Guo, Jun Yang, Libo Yuan","doi":"10.1117/12.741478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741478","url":null,"abstract":"A single tapered fiber optical tweezers is demonstrated experimentally based on a fused tapered fiber probe. Yeast cells immersed in water were trapped at the tip of the fiber probe and moved in 3 dimensions at a certain velocity. The trapping force, both axial and transverse, can only be attributed to the force effect of the optical field emerging from the end of the fiber probe. The output optical field was numerically simulated by using a BPM (beam propagation method) method. It is qualitatively discussed that such optical field own the ability to form a 3-D optical trap.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"12 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132497597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of taxol-induced apoptosis by inhibition of NF-κB with ursorlic acid","authors":"Yunlong Li, D. Xing","doi":"10.1117/12.741583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741583","url":null,"abstract":"Taxol is known to inhibit cell growth and triggers significant apoptosis in various cancer cells, and activation of proliferation factor NF-κB during Taxol-induced apoptosis is regarded as a main reason resulting in tumor cells resistance to Taxol. It has been found that ursorlic acid can inhibit the activation of NF-κB. In order to study whether ursorlic acid can enhance the Taxol-induced apoptosis, we use fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique and probe SCAT3 to compare the difference of caspase-3 activation between Taxol alone and Taxol combined ursorlic acid. With laser scanning confocal microscopy, we find that ursorlic acid, a nontoxic food component, sensitizes ASTC-a-1 cells more efficiently to Taxol-induced apoptosis by advanced activation of caspase 3. The result also suggests that there would be a synergistic effect between Taxol and ursorlic acid, and the more detailed mechanism of synergistic effect needs to be clarified further, such as the correlations among NF-κB, Akt, caspase 8, which leads to the advanced activation of caspase 3 during combined treatment of Taxol and ursorlic acid. Moreover, this may be a new way to improve Taxol-dependent tumor therapy.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132579995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"80-W green KTP laser used in photoselective laser vaporization of the prostrate by frequency doubling of Yb3+ -doped large-mode area fiber laser","authors":"Hongxing Xia, Zhengjia Li","doi":"10.1117/12.741617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741617","url":null,"abstract":"Photoselective laser vaporization of the prostate (PVP) is the most promising method for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), but KTP lasers used in PVP with lamp-pumped are low efficient .To increase the efficiency , we develop a 80-W, 400kHz, linearly polarized green laser based on a frequency-doubled fiber laser. A polarization-maintaining large-mode area (LMA) fiber amplifier generate polarized 1064nm fundamental wave by amplifying the seed signal from a composite Cr4+:YAG-Nd3+:YAG crystal fiber laser. The fundamental wave is injected into a KTP crystal with confined temperature management to achieve second harmonic generation (SHG). The overall electrical efficiency to the green portion of the spectrum is 10%.80-W maintenance-free long-lifetime KTP laser obtained can well satisfy the need of PVP.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131945968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lingrui Zhang, D. Xing, Junsheng Wang, Lizhang Zeng, Qiang Li
{"title":"A novel method for rapid and non-invasive detection of plants senescence using delayed fluorescence technique","authors":"Lingrui Zhang, D. Xing, Junsheng Wang, Lizhang Zeng, Qiang Li","doi":"10.1117/12.741637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741637","url":null,"abstract":"Plants senescence is a phase of plants ontogeny marked by declining photosynthetic activity that is paralleled by a decline in chloroplast function. The photosystem II ( PSII ) in a plant is considered the primary site where light-induced delayed fluorescence (DF) is produced. With the leaves of Catharanthus roseus (Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don) as testing models, we have studied the effects of plants senescence induced by dark and/or exogenous hormones treatments on characteristics of DF by using a home-made portable DF detection system, which can enable various DF parameters, such as DF decay kinetic curve and DF intensity, to be rapidly produced for the plants in a short time. The results show that the changes in DF intensity of green plants can truly reflect the changes in photosynthetic capacity and chlorophyll content. Therefore, DF may be used an important means of evaluating in vivo plants senescence physiology. The changes in DF intensity may provide a new approach for the rapid and early detection of plants senescence caused by age or other senescence-related factors. DF technique could be potential useful for high throughput screening and less time-consuming and automated identifying the interesting mutants with genetic modifications that change plants senescence progress.","PeriodicalId":110373,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133443766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}