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NATURE PROTOCOLS
卷 16, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-00457-2
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- National Institutes of Health [K25HD097288, R33CA204582, U01CA202177, R01EY028666, R01HD095520]
- National Science Foundation [CMMI 1929412, DBI 1942003]
Brillouin optical spectroscopy has long been known as a noncontact material characterization modality. Recently, confocal Brillouin microscopy has emerged as a unique complementary tool, allowing noncontact, nonperturbative, label-free measurements of material mechanical properties.
Several techniques have been developed over the past few decades to assess the mechanical properties of biological samples, which has fueled a rapid growth in the fields of biophysics, bioengineering, and mechanobiology. In this context, Brillouin optical spectroscopy has long been known as an intriguing modality for noncontact material characterization. However, limited by speed and sample damage, it had not translated into a viable imaging modality for biomedically relevant materials. Recently, based on a novel spectroscopy strategy that substantially improves the speed of Brillouin measurement, confocal Brillouin microscopy has emerged as a unique complementary tool to traditional methods as it allows noncontact, nonperturbative, label-free measurements of material mechanical properties. The feasibility and potential of this innovative technique at both the cell and tissue level have been extensively demonstrated over the past decade. As Brillouin technology is rapidly recognized, a standard approach for building and operating Brillouin microscopes is required to facilitate the widespread adoption of this technology. In this protocol, we aim to establish a robust approach for instrumentation, and data acquisition and analysis. By carefully following this protocol, we expect that a Brillouin instrument can be built in 5-9 days by a person with basic optics knowledge and alignment experience; the data acquisition as well as postprocessing can be accomplished within 2-8 h.
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