Photonic force optical coherence elastography for three-dimensional mechanical microscopy

Nichaluk Leartprapun, Rishyashring R. Iyer, Gavrielle R. Untracht, Jeffrey A. Mulligan and Steven G. Adie ()
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Nichaluk Leartprapun: Cornell University
Rishyashring R. Iyer: Cornell University
Gavrielle R. Untracht: Cornell University
Jeffrey A. Mulligan: Cornell University
Steven G. Adie: Cornell University

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Optical tweezers are an invaluable tool for non-contact trapping and micro-manipulation, but their ability to facilitate high-throughput volumetric microrheology of biological samples for mechanobiology research is limited by the precise alignment associated with the excitation and detection of individual bead oscillations. In contrast, radiation pressure from a low-numerical aperture optical beam can apply transversely localized force over an extended depth range. Here we present photonic force optical coherence elastography (PF-OCE), leveraging phase-sensitive interferometric detection to track sub-nanometer oscillations of beads, embedded in viscoelastic hydrogels, induced by modulated radiation pressure. Since the displacements caused by ultra-low radiation-pressure force are typically obscured by absorption-mediated thermal effects, mechanical responses of the beads were isolated after independent measurement and decoupling of the photothermal response of the hydrogels. Volumetric imaging of bead mechanical responses in hydrogels with different agarose concentrations by PF-OCE was consistent with bulk mechanical characterization of the hydrogels by shear rheometry.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04357-8

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