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Bioimaging and Biomedical Optics

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Wound healing

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Monitoring Fgf1-Treated Skin Wounds With Label-Free Multiphoton Microscopy, Gianna Busch May 2021

Monitoring Fgf1-Treated Skin Wounds With Label-Free Multiphoton Microscopy, Gianna Busch

Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Chronic skin wounds pose a significant threat to public health, affecting as many as 5.5 million people in the United States every year and costing the healthcare system $10 billion annually1,2. These wounds are associated with prolonged inflammation, poor vascularization, increased infection risk, and high mortality rates3,4. There is significant interest in developing and testing a variety of biologics to promote wound healing. However, quantitative evaluations of healing are typically limited to measurements of wound size, and there is a critical need to develop quantitative biomarkers sensitive to different aspects of the healing process. Label-free multiphoton …

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Multiphoton Microscopy And Deep Learning Neural Networks For The Automated Quantification Of In Vivo, Label-Free Optical Biomarkers Of Skin Wound Healing, Jake D. Jones Dec 2020

Multiphoton Microscopy And Deep Learning Neural Networks For The Automated Quantification Of In Vivo, Label-Free Optical Biomarkers Of Skin Wound Healing, Jake D. Jones

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Non-healing ulcerative wounds that occur frequently in diseases such as diabetes are challenging to diagnose and treat due to numerous possible etiologies and the variable efficacy of wound care products. With advanced age, skin wound healing is often delayed, leaving elderly patients at high risk for developing these chronic injuries. As it is challenging to discriminate age-related delays from disease-related chronicity, there is a critical need to develop new quantitative biomarkers that are sensitive to wound status. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) techniques are well-suited for 3D imaging of epithelia and are capable of non-invasively detecting metabolic cofactors (NADH and FAD) without …

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