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BIOPHYSICAL REVIEWS
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 1005-1022Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s12551-022-00991-1
Keywords
Optical clearing; Lung tissue; Optical coherence tomography; Optical clearing agents; Antimicrobial/antiviral PDT
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- Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation [220, 075-15-2021-615]
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Optical clearing of lung tissue aims to improve transparency to light and reconstruct the tissue's three-dimensional structure. This is important for monitoring viral infection impact on the alveoli and oxygen transport.
Optical clearing of the lung tissue aims to make it more transparent to light by minimizing light scattering, thus allowing reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of the tissue with a much better resolution. This is of great importance for monitoring of viral infection impact on the alveolar structure of the tissue and oxygen transport. Optical clearing agents (OCAs) can provide not only lesser light scattering of tissue components but also may influence the molecular transport function of the alveolar membrane. Air-filled lungs present significant challenges for optical imaging including optical coherence tomography (OCT), confocal and two-photon microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy, because of the large refractive-index mismatch between alveoli walls and the enclosed air-filled region. During OCT imaging, the light is strongly backscattered at each air-tissue interface, such that image reconstruction is typically limited to a single alveolus. At the same time, the filling of these cavities with an OCA, to which water (physiological solution) can also be attributed since its refractive index is much higher than that of air will lead to much better tissue optical transmittance. This review presents general principles and advances in the field of tissue optical clearing (TOC) technology, OCA delivery mechanisms in lung tissue, studies of the impact of microbial and viral infections on tissue response, and antimicrobial and antiviral photodynamic therapies using methylene blue (MB) and indocyanine green (ICG) dyes as photosensitizers.
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