Novel Optics-Based Approaches for Cardiovascular Researches
A special issue of Methods and Protocols (ISSN 2409-9279). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sciences and Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 503
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical microscopy; imaging system; cardiac electrophysiology; voltage sensitive dye; calcium imaging; optogenetics
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Interests: cardiac arrhythmia; microscopy; biophysics; instrumentation development; biophotonics; optogenetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cardiovascular investigation has been tremendously transformed by optics-based imaging methodologies. Recent innovations in optical methods allow imaging multiple fast phenomena while controlling, with an adequate spatiotemporal resolution, the biological determinants involved. The increasing need to investigate large biological specimens has also driven the development of novel optical techniques in combination with chemical approaches capable of volumetric imaging with no compromises in terms of field-of-view and spatial resolution.
In this Special Issue, we welcome researchers to submit original research, review, perspective, and opinion articles on topics ranging from super-resolution techniques to coarse-resolution whole heart mapping, from imaging cardiac activity and correlating this activity to underlying structure to manipulating cardiac activity with optogenetics.
This compilation is inspired by the NOTICE2020 webinar (https://notice-glasgow.github.io).
Dr. Leonardo Sacconi
Dr. Gil Bub
Dr. Caroline Muellenbroich
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- calcium imaging
- voltage imaging
- optogenetics
- optical mapping
- mesoscale imaging
- tissue clearing
- cardiac monolayer, cardiac electrophysiology, opto-acoustic imaging
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