Journal
BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 2457-2466Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.10.002457
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- Imperial College London [G53037]
- Ministry of Education, Republic of China
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project [DP190101973]
- EPSRC [EP/N025954/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The degeneration of articular cartilage (AC) occurs in osteoarthritis (OA), which is a leading cause of pain and disability in middle-aged and older people. The early disease-related changes in cartilage extra-cellular matrix (ECM) start with depletion of proteoglycan (PG), leading to an increase in tissue hydration and permeability. These early compositional changes are small (<10%) and hence difficult to register with conventional non-invasive imaging technologies (magnetic resonance and ultrasound imaging). Here we apply Brillouin microscopy for detecting changes in the mechanical properties and composition of porcine AC. OA-like degradation is mimicked by enzymatic tissue digestion, and we compare Brillouin microscopy measurements against histological staining of PG depletion over varying digestion times and enzyme concentrations. The non-destructive nature of Brillouin imaging technology opens new avenues for creating minimally invasive arthroscopic devices for OA diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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