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APPLIED OPTICS
卷 42, 期 25, 页码 5209-5219出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005209
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [1 R01 EB00337-02] Funding Source: Medline
The second-harmonic signal in collagen, even in highly organized samples such as rat tail tendon fascicles, varies significantly with position. Previous studies suggest that this variability may be due to the parallel and antiparallel orientation of neighboring collagen fibrils. We applied high-resolution second-harmonic generation microscopy to confirm this hypothesis. Studies in which the focal spot diameter was varied from similar to1 to similar to6 mum strongly suggest that regions in which collagen fibrils have the same orientation in rat tail tendon are likely to be less than similar to1 mum in diameter. These measurements required accurate determination of the focal spot size achieved by use of different microscope objectives; we developed a technique that uses second-harmonic generation in a quartz reference to measure the focal spot diameter directly. We also used the quartz reference to determine a lower limit (d(XXX) > 0.4 pm/V) for the magnitude of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility in collagen. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.
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