Remote imaging of single cell 3D morphology with ultrafast coherent phonons and their resonance harmonics

LIU, Liwang; VIEL, Alexis; LE SAUX, Guillaume; PLAWINSKI, Laurent; MUGGIOLU, Giovanna; BARBERET, Philippe; PEREIRA, Marco; AYELA, Cedric; SEZNEC, Herve; DURRIEU, Marie-Christine; OLIVE, Jean-Marc; AUDOIN, Bertrand

doi:10.1038/s41598-019-42718-5

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Scientific Reports. 2019-04-23, vol. 9, n° 1, p. 12p.

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Cell morphological analysis has long been used in cell biology and physiology for abnormality identification, early cancer detection, and dynamic change analysis under specific environmental stresses. This work reports on the remote mapping of cell 3D morphology with an in-plane resolution limited by optics and an out-of-plane accuracy down to a tenth of the optical wavelength. For this, GHz coherent acoustic phonons and their resonance harmonics were tracked by means of an ultrafast opto-acoustic technique. After illustrating the measurement accuracy with cell-mimetic polymer films we map the 3D morphology of an entire osteosarcoma cell. The resulting image complies with the image obtained by standard atomic force microscopy, and both reveal very close roughness mean values. In addition, while scanning macrophages and monocytes, we demonstrate an enhanced contrast of thickness mapping by taking advantage of the detection of high-frequency resonance harmonics. Illustrations are given with the remote quantitative imaging of the nucleus thickness gradient of migrating monocyte cells.< Réduire

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Acoustics

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Photoacoustics

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