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How to Build a Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) System to Monitor Blood Flow
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2010
This video demonstrates how to build a Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) system that can easily be used to monitor blood flow.
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Live Cell Imaging of F-actin Dynamics via Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy (FSM)
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2009
Selection, microinjection, and imaging of fluorescently-labeled F-actin via fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM).
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Transthoracic Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation
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2016
Speckle tracking echocardiography is an emerging diagnostic imaging technique for the quantitative assessment of global and regional myocardial performance. Standard view echocardiographic motion images are recorded and deformation parameters are subsequently measured by automated continuous frame-by-frame tracking and motion analysis of speckles within the B-mode images of the myocardium.
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Applying Permanent, Robust Stenciled Patterns of Fine Particles to Elastomeric Surfaces
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2025
We present a method to apply permanent markings and patterns to silicone surfaces by adhering fine particles to the surface. The markings can be either a recognizable design or a random speckle pattern such as those used in digital image correlation.
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Patterned Photostimulation with Digital Micromirror Devices to Investigate Dendritic Integration Across Branch Points
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2011
Digital micromirror devices (DMD) can generate complex patterns in time and space with which to control neuronal excitability. Issues relevant to the design, construction, and operation of DMD systems are discussed. Such a system enabled the demonstration of non-linear integration across distal dendritic branch points.
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A Speckle Pattern reflects the combined behavior of scattered light waves. When waves arrive with different relative phases, they interfere and produce local variations in intensity, appearing as bright and dark regions. Changes in the scattering structures alter those phase relationships and intensities, so the evolving pattern carries information about movement within the biological sample.
Temporal fluctuations arise when structures that scatter light move or change position. Their motion modifies the relative phase and intensity of the interfering waves, causing the observed granular pattern to change over time. By analyzing these changes rather than relying on a single pattern, investigators can assess dynamic processes such as blood flow, microcirculation, or cell movement.
Coherent light, including laser light, provides waves with a consistent relationship that allows interference effects to form a granular intensity distribution after scattering. This makes changes in the scattered field observable as pattern variations. In biological studies, coherent illumination therefore supports analysis of motion-related changes in tissues and other complex scattering structures.
A typical workflow uses coherent light to illuminate a biological tissue or other complex scattering sample, then examines the resulting bright and dark distribution over time. Researchers analyze temporal fluctuations in that pattern to extract information about tissue dynamics. Because the approach provides noninvasive, wide-field measurements, it can monitor activity across an area rather than only at one point.
Speckle-based methods can monitor blood flow, microcirculation, cell movement, and other changes in living tissues. These applications rely on the connection between moving scattering structures and changing interference patterns. The resulting measurements help investigators examine dynamic biological behavior without requiring invasive access, supporting studies that need information about activity across tissue regions.
Changes in speckle-derived measurements can provide information about tissue dynamics relevant to physiology, disease progression, and responses to treatment. Their noninvasive and wide-field character allows researchers to follow dynamic behavior in living tissues across an area. This makes the approach useful for comparing biological states or observing how tissue activity changes during an intervention.