Optical coherence tomography complements confocal microscopy for investigation of multicellular tumour spheroids

Abstract Knowledge of optical properties, such as the refractive index (RI), of biological tissues is important in optical imaging, as they influence the distribution and propagation of light in tissue. To accurately study the response of cancerous cells to drugs, optimised imaging protocols are req...

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Autores principales: Neelam Hari, Priyanka Patel, Jacqueline Ross, Kevin Hicks, Frédérique Vanholsbeeck
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/2eeb09613b95477c85f3f88d35fbe5ee
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Sumario:Abstract Knowledge of optical properties, such as the refractive index (RI), of biological tissues is important in optical imaging, as they influence the distribution and propagation of light in tissue. To accurately study the response of cancerous cells to drugs, optimised imaging protocols are required. This study uses a simple custom-built spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system to conduct RI measurements of multicellular spheroids, three-dimensional (3D) in-vitro culture systems, of the cell line HCT116. The spheroid RIs are compared to study the effect of growth over time. To improve confocal microscopy imaging protocols, two immersion media (glycerol and ScaleView-A2) matching the spheroid RIs were trialled, with the aim to reduce the RI mismatch between the spheroid and the immersion medium and thus improve imaging depth with confocal microscopy. ScaleView-A2 (n = 1.380) aided in achieving greater depths of imaging of the multicellular spheroids under confocal microscopy. This improvement in imaging depth confirmed the utility of our RI measurements, proving the promising outlook of OCT as a complementary tool to microscopy in cancer research.