Surgical resection of colorectal cancer is currently the most effective treatment. However, anastomotic leakage (AL), as one of the most severe complications after colorectal cancer surgery, has seriously threatened patients’ quality of life and prognosis. Collagen fibers play an essential role in AL. This study explores the correlation between collagen fiber and AL, which can improve the understanding of this complication and help clinicians judge the prognosis and treatment of patients. Second-harmonic generation (SHG) imaging technology is a non-invasive, label-free, and up-and-coming new technology. It has been proven to be a vital tool for visualizing collagen fibers. In this work, SHG imaging technology is used to perform high-resolution, label-free imaging on paraffin-embedded specimens of AL; collagen is excited by 810nm light, and SHG signals are detected in the range of 395-415nm. Combined with a specific image processing method, select regions of interest of the same size to obtain the collagen fiber characteristics used to distinguish an AL from normal tissues. The study results showed a significant difference in the collagen fiber characteristics between the AL tissue and the normal tissue (p<0.05). In short, the combination of SHG imaging technology and quantitative image processing methods is expected to provide a new method for the effective and rapid identification of AL and also lay the foundation for individualized prediction of AL in patients with colorectal cancer. This research has crucial academic significance and clinical application prospects.
The structural characteristics of bile duct tissue can indirectly reflect the physiological function of the bile duct, so understanding the pathological process of bile duct tissue can improve the prognosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. However, the existing technology cannot accurately and quickly determine the stage of the bile duct tissue lesion, which will have a certain impact on the treatment. In this study, normal bile ducts, inflammatory bile ducts, and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma were distinguished using label-free multiphoton microscopy (MPM). The experimental results show that high-resolution images can clearly distinguish normal bile duct, inflammatory bile duct and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma through cell morphology and tissue structure. Therefore, MPM can be used as an effective optical tool for the diagnosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in unstained histological sections. It is expected in the future that MPM can play a greater role in the clinic.
The mortality rate of gastric cancer ranks second in the world. The prognosis of early gastric cancer is good, while the prognosis of advanced gastric cancer is poor. Therefore, early diagnosis of gastric cancer is the key to determining the prognosis of patients. Traditional pathological analysis takes a long time, and the results may have some subjectivity and randomness. Therefore, we propose a method for distinguishing normal and early gastric cancer sites by multiphoton microscopy combined with acridine orange rapid staining. The experimental results confirmed that multiphoton microscopy combined with acridine orange staining can effectively describe the normal microstructure of the human gastric mucosa,and these results laid the experimental foundation for the establishment of clinical diagnostic criteria for gastric cancer.
β-Amyloid (Aβ) plaque, representing the progressive accumulation of the protein that mainly consists of Aβ, is one of the prominent pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Label-free imaging of Aβ plaques holds the potential to be a histological examination tool for diagnosing AD. We applied label-free multiphoton microscopy to identify extracellular Aβ plaque as well as intracellular Aβ accumulation for the first time from AD mouse models. We showed that a two-photon-excited fluorescence signal is a sensitive optical marker for revealing the spatial–temporal progression and the surrounding morphological changes of Aβ deposition, which demonstrated that both extracellular and intracellular Aβ accumulations play an important role in the progression of AD. Moreover, combined with a custom-developed image-processing program, we established a rapid method to visualize different degrees of Aβ deposition by color coding. These results provide an approach for investigating pathophysiology of AD that can complement traditional biomedical procedures.
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