Title :
Multiphoton characterization of tissue engineering scaffolds
Author :
Lin, Tzu-Yu ; Lin, Sung-Jan ; Chen, Hsiao-Ching ; Lee, Hsuan-Shu ; Teng, Shu-Wen ; Lo, Wen ; Dong, Chen-Yuan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The use of seeding scaffolds has facilitated advances in tissue engineering. We found that multiphoton microscopy is useful in imaging commonly used tissue engineering scaffolds such as polyglycolic acid (PGA).
Keywords :
biomedical materials; biomedical optical imaging; cellular biophysics; multiphoton spectroscopy; optical microscopy; tissue engineering; multiphoton characterization; multiphoton microscopy; polyglycolic acid scaffolds; seeding scaffolds; tissue engineering scaffolds; Biodegradable materials; Biological materials; Biomedical imaging; Electronics packaging; Hospitals; Microscopy; Physics; Polymers; Programmable logic arrays; Tissue engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics, 2004. APBP 2004. The Second Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8676-0
DOI :
10.1109/APBP.2004.1412346
