{"title":"Fast Optical Coherence Elastography via Optimized Sampling Density With Preserved Accuracy.","authors":"Guangyu Zhang, Zhengshuyi Feng, Alison M Layton, Chunhui Li, Zhihong Huang","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70376","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70376","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Optical coherence elastography (OCE) is a non-invasive imaging technique for quantifying tissue stiffness. The spatial resolution of elastography maps is closely related to the spatial sampling density required to adequately represent mechanical features. In this study, we investigated the effect of spatial sampling density on OCE by varying the number of effective sampling points along scanning axes using the proposed phase-gradient velocity estimation method. These methods were validated using agar phantoms and in vivo human facial acne and the results showed that down sampling reduced computational cost by around 69% and up to about 89%. For the down sampling results of the acne dataset, the velocity changed by only 5.82% in an affected lesion. These results provide a practical criterion for reducing acquisition and post-processing time while establishing the quantitative relationship between spatial sampling, elastography accuracy and computational efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 10","pages":"e70376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221301","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":"PEGylated Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as Contrast-Enhancing Agents for Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography of Biological Tissue.","authors":"Tejal Barkhade, Gajendar Singh, Abhishek Indoliya, Raju Poddar","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.70367","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this work, the effect of surface modification of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) with polyethylene glycol (PEG) on contrast enhancement in swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) is investigated. The bare and PEGylated SPIONs were prepared by the co-precipitation method from an aqueous solution of an Fe(III) salt. They were characterized by UV-DRS, Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, TEM, and VSM to determine their physicochemical properties. The performance of ex vivo imaging was evaluated in chicken breast tissue with B-scan SS-OCT at various exposure times (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 min), and the contrast enhancement was investigated by measuring the scattering coefficient. The brightness of bare SPIONs was low, and the penetration into tissues was slow. PEG-SPIONs, on the other hand, showed better optical stability, penetration, enhanced scattering, and brighter SS-OCT images. The scattering coefficient (mm<sup>-1</sup>) of PEG-SPION-treated tissue increased with exposure time, indicating its effectiveness as a tissue contrast agent.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 9","pages":"e70367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149032109","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}
Xing Wang, Honggang Pan, Dan Xia, Qingcheng You, Yukun Zhu, Licui Ji, Xu Gao, Xinjie Zhao, Yating Tang
{"title":"Numerical Investigation of an Au-TiO<sub>2</sub> Micro-Grating-Metastructure D-Shaped PCF-SPR Sensor for SARS-CoV-2-Related Biomolecular Interaction Analysis.","authors":"Xing Wang, Honggang Pan, Dan Xia, Qingcheng You, Yukun Zhu, Licui Ji, Xu Gao, Xinjie Zhao, Yating Tang","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.70350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study numerically investigates a D-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor integrated with an Au-TiO<sub>2</sub> micro-grating metastructure for SARS-CoV-2-related biomolecular interaction analysis. The grating modulates phase matching between the core-guided and surface plasmon polariton modes, enhancing the refractive index (RI) response. The finite element method (FEM) was used to optimize the PCF air-hole diameters and Au-TiO<sub>2</sub> grating parameters. The sensor shows a broad RI response range of 1.19-1.43, with a maximum local wavelength sensitivity (WS) of 18 500 nm/RIU, minimum full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 10 nm, and maximum figure of merit (FOM) of 240 RIU<sup>-1</sup>. For modeled spike RBD and anti-RBD monoclonal IgG binding, maximum WS values of 5000 and 4782 nm/RIU were obtained. These results support compact fiber-integrated SPR platforms for label-free monitoring of SARS-CoV-2-related RI variations, while specificity and reliability require experimental validation.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 9","pages":"e70350"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149066976","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}
Eman G Ibrahim, Sherif S Mahmoud, Rehab A Taha, Hamdia A Zayed
{"title":"Fluorescence Profiling of Water-Based Breast Tissue Homogenates Combined With Chemometric Analyses for Discrimination of Benign and Malignant Lesions.","authors":"Eman G Ibrahim, Sherif S Mahmoud, Rehab A Taha, Hamdia A Zayed","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70316","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer diagnosis is clinically challenging, particularly in distinguishing benign lesions, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). This study evaluates multimodal autofluorescence spectroscopy combined with chemometric analysis for breast tissue classification. A total of 145 ex vivo specimens (56 IDC, 54 DCIS, 35 benign) were analyzed using excitation spectroscopy, synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy, and two-dimensional integrated-emission mapping (2D-IEM). Spectral data were decomposed via parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) and assessed using PCA with Bonferroni-corrected ANOVA and receiver operating characteristic analysis. Excitation fluorescence demonstrated good discrimination for benign (area under the curve, AUC = 0.85) and IDC (AUC = 0.83) tissues, with moderate DCIS performance (AUC = 0.75). Synchronous modality enhanced differentiation of overlapping fluorophores, revealing tumor-specific metabolic signatures. PARAFAC resolved three biologically relevant components-protein-related, metabolic, and porphyrin-associated-enabling clear tissue group separation. These findings establish multimodal autofluorescence spectroscopy as a robust, label-free approach with strong potential for intraoperative margin assessment and diagnostic support.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148334969","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}
Yong-Hui Pyon, Jin-Hyok Kang, Jong-Jin Kim, Seung-Ho Jung, Jong-Guk Won, Hyon-Ryong Bang
{"title":"Relationship Between Body Fat Percentage and Near-Infrared Scattering Images of Muscle: A Noninvasive and Rapid Study on Human Body.","authors":"Yong-Hui Pyon, Jin-Hyok Kang, Jong-Jin Kim, Seung-Ho Jung, Jong-Guk Won, Hyon-Ryong Bang","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70309","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70309","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Assessing body fat percentage is important for human health management and disease prevention, but a rapid, accurate, inexpensive, and safe measurement method is needed. In this paper, we described the research to evaluate the body fat percentage from the near-infrared scattering images of muscle. The correlation between the subcutaneous fat thickness measured experimentally with the skinfold caliper and the evaluation parameters obtained from the scattering image was examined at six sites, and the measurement sites that could be used for the evaluation of body fat percentage were selected. The selected sites were femoral site, lower leg, and brachium, and there were four evaluation parameters. The body fat percentage was evaluated from the sum of the four evaluation parameters, classified by parameter, obtained from the scattering images measured for these three sites. The results of the experiment show that body fat percentage can be evaluated from near-infrared scattering images of muscle.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70309"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148311051","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}
Rui Meneses, Rui Miguel Magalhães, Clara Sousa, Paula Teixeira
{"title":"FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy as a Tool to Differentiate Listeria monocytogenes by Geno-Serogroups, Growth Conditions and Persistence Status.","authors":"Rui Meneses, Rui Miguel Magalhães, Clara Sousa, Paula Teixeira","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70314","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen whose persistence in food processing environments poses serious health and economic risks. Differentiating persistent strains (isolated over long periods in the same plant) from transient strains (sporadically isolated) is vital for effective control. This study assessed Fourier transform infrared with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy for its ability to discriminate L. monocytogenes based on geno-serogroup, growth condition and persistence status. Forty-seven isolates were cultured under optimal (37°C, BHI agar/broth) and stress (7°C or 8% NaCl) conditions. FTIR-ATR spectra, analysed via principal component and partial least squares discriminant analyses, achieved up to 96.7% accuracy for geno-serogroup differentiation and exceeded 98% accuracy for distinguishing growth conditions. For persistence, predictive accuracies ranged from 67.1% to 92.0% for geno-serogroup IVb on BHI agar at 37°C, showing FTIR-ATR's potential. Further validation using larger datasets is required to strengthen the model's applicability for persistence-based discrimination.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148335051","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":"Utilizing Serum Fluorescence Spectra and Machine Learning Algorithms for Efficient Diagnosis of Sheep Brucellosis.","authors":"Ziyi Fang, Xiangxiang Zheng, Xia Liao, Jinlong Zhao, Yutong Jia, Yun Du, Shengke Xu, Renyong Lin, Yijie Li, Guodong Lü","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70317","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In sheep, the infectious disease brucellosis is caused by Brucella melitensis. Traditional serological techniques for detecting Brucella in sheep are slow and not very accurate, necessitating a faster and more precise screening method. This study seeks to assess the potential for diagnosing brucellosis seropositive sheep through the application of serum fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with principal component analysis-linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA), support vector machine with linear (SVM-linear), support vector machine with radial basis function (SVM-RBF), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), and decision tree (DT) algorithms. The study revealed differences at 470, 515, 560, 670, and 710 nm through the analysis of serum fluorescence spectra from sheep with and without brucellosis. Among them, the diagnostic effect of the PCA-LDA algorithm is the best (accuracy 91.0% ± 6.1%). In summary, the combination of serum fluorescence spectroscopy and the PCA-LDA algorithm holds considerable potential for detecting brucellosis seropositive sheep.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148334991","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":"Local Mitochondrial Growth Initiated by Femtosecond Laser-Evoked Ca<sup>2+</sup> Signaling.","authors":"Bingyi Li, Zichuan Tang, Hao He","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70313","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70313","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mitochondrial structural remodeling is closely coupled to intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> signaling, and precise spatiotemporal control of this process is critical for understanding mitochondrial physiology. Here, we report an optical approach based on femtoSOC (femtosecond laser-controlled store-operated calcium channel) activation to induce localized Ca<sup>2+</sup> influx and trigger region-specific mitochondrial growth in living cells. The Ca<sup>2+</sup>-regulated mitochondrial growth relies on MCU-dependent Ca<sup>2+</sup> uptake and OPA1-mediated fusion but is not primarily mediated by the AMPK/CaMKKβ pathway. This study provides a minimally invasive strategy for precise optical control of mitochondrial dynamics and reveals an AMPK-distinct pathway linking localized Ca<sup>2+</sup> signaling to mitochondrial structural remodeling.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148297552","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":"Discriminant Analysis of Urine Vitamin C by Visible Spectrum Based on Ultra-Dimensionality Reduction and Information Enhancement Technology.","authors":"Wanqiang Pan, Zhilong Cai, Linxi Xu, Haofei Wang, Jingjun Wu, Ping Yang, Zhiliang Zhao, Chengbo Yang","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70311","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urinary vitamin C (UVC) is a routine urine test. Rapid and accurate detection is of great significance in clinical and health management. This study first uses the successive projections algorithm (SPA) to select four wavelengths highly correlated with UVC. Secondly, the m-SPA-SI information enhancement (IE) framework is constructed by gradually fusing the spectral index value (SIV). Finally, a random forest (RF) discriminant model is established. The results show that the m-SPA-SI6-RF strategy achieves the best model performance, with test accuracy and sensitivity of 93.75% and 0.8182%, respectively, which are far better than those of the full-spectrum RF and SPA-RF models. The number of wavelengths decreased from 457 to 4, a 99.12% reduction. This study not only provides a new method for the first time to achieve efficient spectral discrimination of UVC, but also expands the application potential of spectral analysis technology for simultaneous detection of multiple components in urine.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148297261","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":"Using Principal Components Analysis to Visualize Motion and Mitigate Artifacts in Dynamic Optical Coherence Tomography.","authors":"Alejandro Martínez Jiménez, Adrian Bradu","doi":"10.1002/jbio.70315","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jbio.70315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dynamic Optical Coherence Tomography (DOCT) is an advanced imaging technique that uses temporal fluctuations in OCT signals to improve contrast and enhance visualization of dynamic processes such as motion and metabolic activity. Although various methods for implementing the DOCT algorithm have been proposed, the use of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a commonly used technique in medical imaging, remains relatively underexplored in this area. Our study demonstrates that selecting only the most significant principal components in PCA can substantially reduce artifacts from strong specular reflections, particularly when high-numerical-aperture microscope objectives are used. Furthermore, by using a small number of principal components, we can isolate movement within the sample, successfully reconstruct volumetric images, and create thin, histology-like sections of bovine kidney tissue, avoiding the need for complex, time-consuming techniques used in clinical histopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":94068,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biophotonics","volume":"19 6","pages":"e70315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13291352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148311059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}