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4: Diagram of the structure of a neuron, including its soma, dendrites and axon surrounded by myelin.
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A hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system to measure and quantify in vivo haemodynamic and metabolic signals from the exposed cerebral cortex of small animals was designed, developed and investigated in this thesis. Imaging brain tissue at multiple narrow wavelength bands in the visible and near-infrared (NIR) range allows one not only to monitor cerebr...
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... These methods are used in numerous medical applications, especially in disease diagnosis and image-guided surgery [3][4][5]. It is often applied to obtain quantitative information for several biological processes in both healthy and diseased tissues, e.g., in tumor detection and diagnosis, cancer type differentiation and cancer cell metabolism [6][7][8], and cardiovascular conditions [9,10], to quantify metabolic activity in cerebral tissue [11,12] and to measure the changes in the spatial distribution of tissue oxygenation during vascular occlusion [13], among many other applications. ...
The study of the interaction between light and biological tissue is of great help in the identification of diseases as well as structural alterations in tissues. In the present study, we have developed a tissue diagnostic technique by using multispectral imaging in the visible spectrum combined with principal component analysis (PCA). We used information from the propagation of light through paraffin-embedded tissues to assess differences in the eye tissues of control mouse embryos compared to mouse embryos whose mothers were deprived of folic acid (FA), a crucial vitamin necessary for the growth and development of the fetus. After acquiring the endmembers from the multispectral images, spectral unmixing was used to identify the abundances of those endmembers in each pixel. For each acquired image, the final analysis was performed by performing a pixel-by-pixel and wavelength-by-wavelength absorbance calculation. Non-negative least squares (NNLS) were used in this research. The abundance maps obtained for the first endmember revealed vascular alterations (vitreous and choroid) in the embryos with maternal FA deficiency. However, the abundance maps obtained for the third endmember showed alterations in the texture of some tissues such as the lens and retina. Results indicated that multispectral imaging applied to paraffin-embedded tissues enhanced tissue visualization. Using this method, first, it can be seen tissue damage location and then decide what kind of biological techniques to apply.
