Nano-imaging collagen by atomic force, near-field and nonlinear microscope

• Main Authors: Lim, Ken Choong, Tang, Jinkai, Li, Hao, Ng, Boon Ping, Kok, Shaw Wei, Wang, Qijie, Zhang, Ying
• Other Authors: Cartwright, Alexander N.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105263; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/26037; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2078911
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As the most abundant protein in the human body, collagen has a very important role in vast numbers of bio-medical applications. The unique second order nonlinear properties of fibrillar collagen make it a very important index in nonlinear optical imaging based disease diagnosis of the brain, skin, l...