Recent breakthroughs in optical microscopy have enabled in vivo imaging of the embryonic heart as it develops and gains function. Despite these advances, it remains difficult to simultaneously characterize heart morphology, heart function (the embryonic heart is beating before it is fully developed), and gene expression levels. We have developed...
Creator:
Liebling, Michael (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Created:
2011-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Modern optical microscopy has grown into a multi-dimensional imagingtool. It is now possible to record dynamic processes in living specimens intheir spatial context and temporal order, yielding information-rich 5-Dimages(3-D space, time, spectra).Of particular interest are complex and dynamictissuemicroenvironments that play critical roles in he...
Creator:
Roysam, Badri (University of Houston)
Created:
2011-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Understanding of complicated spatial patterns emerging from wave interference, scattering and diffraction is frequently aided by insight from topology: the isolated places where some fundamental physical quantity -- such as optical phase in a complicated light field -- is undefined (or singular) organize the rest of the field. In scalar wave pat...
Creator:
Dennis, Mark (University of Bristol)
Created:
2008-07-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.