Assessing the photoaging process at sun exposed and non-exposed skin using fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy

Marcelo Saito Nogueira; Cristina Kurachi

doi:10.1117/12.2209690

7 March 2016 Assessing the photoaging process at sun exposed and non-exposed skin using fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy

Marcelo Saito Nogueira, Cristina Kurachi

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Proceedings Volume 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis; 97031W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209690
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Photoaging is the skin premature aging due to exposure to ultraviolet light, which damage the collagen, elastin and can induce alterations on the skin cells DNA, and, then, it may evolve to precancerous lesions, which are widely investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy and lifetime. The fluorescence spectra and fluorescence lifetime analysis has been presented as a technique of great potential for biological tissue characterization at optical diagnostics. The main targeted fluorophores are NADH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) and FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide), which have free and bound states, each one with different average lifetimes. The average lifetimes for free and bound NADH and FAD change according to tissue metabolic alterations and may contribute to a non-invasive clinical investigation of injuries such as skin lesions. These lesions and the possible areas where they may develop can be interrogated using fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy taking into account the variability of skin phototypes and the changes related to melanin, collagen and elastin, endogenous fluorophores which have emissions that spectrally overlap to the NADH and FAD emission. The objective of this study is to assess the variation on fluorescence lifetimes of normal skin at sun exposed and non-exposed areas and associate this variation to the photoaging process.

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Marcelo Saito Nogueira and Cristina Kurachi "Assessing the photoaging process at sun exposed and non-exposed skin using fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 97031W (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209690

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