Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments

Second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is nowadays the gold standard technique for collagen structural imaging in intact tissues with sub-micrometer resolution. This multiphoton modality can be combined with polarimetry to provide key information about the 3D hierarchical organization of collag...

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Main Authors: Giulia Galante, Laurianne Robinet, Sylvie Heu-Thao, Clément Caporal, Gaël Latour, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein
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Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2025-05-01
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0250484
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Laurianne Robinet
Sylvie Heu-Thao
Clément Caporal
Gaël Latour
Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein
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description Second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is nowadays the gold standard technique for collagen structural imaging in intact tissues with sub-micrometer resolution. This multiphoton modality can be combined with polarimetry to provide key information about the 3D hierarchical organization of collagen. Notably, the so-called anisotropy parameter processed from polarization-resolved SHG (P-SHG) has been shown to vary with the orientational disorder of the fibrils within the focal volume and with their out-of-plane orientation. However, analytical equations describing both effects within the same formalism are still lacking. In this work, we present a unified multiscale theoretical approach of the intrinsic variations of the anisotropy parameter. We then measure these variations in the very same collagen samples to ensure reliable comparisons. To that end, we use parchments, which are materials made from animal skins and which contain almost exclusively collagen. These parchments are manufactured in different ways to obtain different collagen distributions. Our series of measurements exhibit a good agreement with our theoretical approach, which shows the relevance of P-SHG measurements to probe collagen multiscale organization in tissues.
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spelling doaj-art-b77f083fb74b4c12929c0402f0384fa12025-08-20T01:58:19ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Photonics2378-09672025-05-01105056106056106-1310.1063/5.0250484Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchmentsGiulia Galante0Laurianne Robinet1Sylvie Heu-Thao2Clément Caporal3Gaël Latour4Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein5Laboratoire d’Optique et Biosciences, CNRS, Inserm, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, FranceCentre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Ministère de la Culture, CNRS, 75005 Paris, FranceCentre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Ministère de la Culture, CNRS, 75005 Paris, FranceLaboratoire d’Optique et Biosciences, CNRS, Inserm, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, FranceLaboratoire d’Optique et Biosciences, CNRS, Inserm, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, FranceLaboratoire d’Optique et Biosciences, CNRS, Inserm, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, FranceSecond harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is nowadays the gold standard technique for collagen structural imaging in intact tissues with sub-micrometer resolution. This multiphoton modality can be combined with polarimetry to provide key information about the 3D hierarchical organization of collagen. Notably, the so-called anisotropy parameter processed from polarization-resolved SHG (P-SHG) has been shown to vary with the orientational disorder of the fibrils within the focal volume and with their out-of-plane orientation. However, analytical equations describing both effects within the same formalism are still lacking. In this work, we present a unified multiscale theoretical approach of the intrinsic variations of the anisotropy parameter. We then measure these variations in the very same collagen samples to ensure reliable comparisons. To that end, we use parchments, which are materials made from animal skins and which contain almost exclusively collagen. These parchments are manufactured in different ways to obtain different collagen distributions. Our series of measurements exhibit a good agreement with our theoretical approach, which shows the relevance of P-SHG measurements to probe collagen multiscale organization in tissues.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0250484
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Laurianne Robinet
Sylvie Heu-Thao
Clément Caporal
Gaël Latour
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Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
APL Photonics
title Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
title_full Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
title_fullStr Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
title_full_unstemmed Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
title_short Intrinsic variation of the polarization-resolved SHG from collagen: Multiscale analysis and application to parchments
title_sort intrinsic variation of the polarization resolved shg from collagen multiscale analysis and application to parchments
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0250484
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