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most citedBrillouin microscopy - a revolutionary tool for mechanobiology?

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physics.optics2026

Impact of refractive index heterogeneity on stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy: a quantitative analysis

Meng Xu, Zixuan Du, Yun Qi +4

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) microscopy enables label-free biomechanical imaging, with Brillouin gain serving as a critical contrast parameter for quantitative analysis. H…

physics.optics2026

Light and Sound Driven Wavefront Shaping and Imaging through Scattering Tissue

Fei Xia, Ivo Leite, Shuquan Xiao +4

Deep, high-resolution imaging is essential for unraveling biological complexity and advancing medical diagnostics, yet scattering fundamentally limits optical methods. Among the mo…

physics.optics2025

Interrogation trajectory optimisation for Fabry-Perot based photoacoustic tomography

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

Fabry-Pérot based photoacoustic tomography (FP-PAT) is a promising all-optical imaging modality for a wide range of preclinical and clinical applications. However, there exist seve…

physics.optics2025

A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data

Carlo Bevilacqua, Sebastian Hambura, Pierre Bouvet +3

Brillouin microscopy is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique for imaging the mechanical properties of biological specimens in a label-free, non-contact manner. We present a sta…

physics.optics2024

Consensus Statement on Brillouin Light Scattering Microscopy of Biological Materials

Pierre Bouvet, Carlo Bevilacqua, Yogeshwari Ambekar +41

Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) spectroscopy is a non-invasive, non-contact, label-free optical technique that can provide information on the mechanical properties of a material o…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer

Carlo Bevilacqua, Robert Prevedel

Brillouin microscopy is an emerging optical elastography technique that can be used to assess mechanical properties of biological samples in a 3D, all-optical and hence non-contact…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Optical wavefront shaping in deep tissue using photoacoustic feedback

Fei Xia, Ivo Leite, Robert Prevedel +1

Over the past decade, optical wavefront shaping has been developed to focus light through highly opaque scattering layers, opening new possibilities for biomedical applications. To…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Deep mouse brain two-photon near-infrared fluorescence imaging using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array

Amr Tamimi, Martin Caldarola, Sebastian Hambura +10

Two-photon microscopy (2PM) has become an important tool in biology to study the structure and function of intact tissues in-vivo. However, adult mammalian tissues such as the mous…

physics.optics2021

Comparing free-space and fibre-coupled detectors for Fabry-Pérot based all-optical photoacoustic tomography

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

All-optical ultrasound detection bears unique advantages for photoacoustics, including wider detection bandwidth, higher signal-to-noise per unit area and lower susceptibility to e…

physics.optics2021

Zernike mode rescaling extends capabilities of adaptive optics for microscopy

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

Zernike polynomials are widely used mathematical models of experimentally observed optical aberrations. Their useful mathematical properties, in particular their orthogonality, mak…

physics.ins-det2021

Transfer function asymmetry in Fabry-Pérot based optical pressure sensors

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

Optical resonators are one of the most promising optical devices for manufacturing high-performance pressure sensors for photoacoustic imaging. Among these, Fabry-Pérot (FP) based…

physics.optics2021★ 4 cited

Cross-compensation of Zernike aberrations in Gaussian optics

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

Zernike polynomials are one of the most widely used mathematical descriptors of optical aberrations in the fields of imaging and adaptive optics. Their mathematical orthogonality a…

physics.optics2020

Improving the sensitivity of planar Fabry-Pérot cavities via adaptive optics and mode filtering

Jakub Czuchnowski, Robert Prevedel

Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavities are fundamental and ubiquitous optical elements frequently used in various sensing applications. Here, we introduce a general theoretical framework to stu…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 6 cited

Brillouin microscopy - a revolutionary tool for mechanobiology?

Robert Prevedel, Alba Diz-Muñoz, Giancarlo Ruocco +1

The role and importance of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in cellular function, development as well as disease has widely been acknowledged, however standard techniques…