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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 21, Pages 25346-25355Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025346
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- NSF [CBET-1057766, EAPSI-1210133]
- American Heart Association [IRG5570039]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1057766] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Multiphoton excited photochemistry is a powerful 3D fabrication tool that produces sub-micron feature sizes. Here we exploit the freeform nature of the process to create models of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of several tissues, where the design blueprint is derived directly from high resolution optical microscopy images (e.g. fluorescence and Second Harmonic Generation). To achieve this goal, we implemented a new form of instrument control, termed modulated raster scanning, where rapid laser shuttering (10 MHz) is used to directly map the greyscale image data to the resulting protein concentration in the fabricated scaffold. Fidelity in terms of area coverage and relative concentration relative to the image data is similar to 95%. We compare the results to an STL approach, and find the new scheme provides significantly improved performance. We suggest the method will enable a variety of cell-matrix studies in cancer biology and also provide insight into generating scaffolds for tissue engineering. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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