The zebrafish has shown to be an essential preclinical animal model, especially in the field of oncology. A non-invasive, high-resolution, and three-dimensional imaging modality is required to identify disease related changes in this model organism.
The presented polarization-sensitive Jones matrix optical coherence tomography (JM-OCT) prototype was utilized in three different studies, covering in vivo imaging of wildtype zebrafish, an adult postmortem tumor model and a longitudinal xenograft tumor zebrafish investigation.
This work highlights the potential of JM-OCT as a non-invasive, label-free, and three-dimensional imaging tool for preclinical cancer research based on zebrafish models.
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