Sensors (Basel)
November 2024
In the field of fringe projection profilometry, phase sensitivity is a critical factor influencing the precision of object measurements. Traditional techniques that employ basic horizontal or vertical fringe projection often do not achieve optimal levels of phase sensitivity. The identification of the fringe angle that exhibits optimal phase sensitivity has been a significant area of research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPoint cloud registration is widely used in autonomous driving, SLAM, and 3D reconstruction, and it aims to align point clouds from different viewpoints or poses under the same coordinate system. However, point cloud registration is challenging in complex situations, such as a large initial pose difference, high noise, or incomplete overlap, which will cause point cloud registration failure or mismatching. To address the shortcomings of the existing registration algorithms, this paper designed a new coarse-to-fine registration two-stage point cloud registration network, CCRNet, which utilizes an end-to-end form to perform the registration task for point clouds.
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March 2023
Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) is prone to phase unwrapping error (PUE) due to phase noise and measurement conditions. Most of the existing PUE-correction methods detect and correct PUE on a pixel-by-pixel or partitioned block basis and do not make full use of the correlation of all information in the unwrapped phase map. In this study, a new method for detecting and correcting PUE is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe excited-state manipulation of the phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes plays a vital role in their photofunctional applications. The development of the molecular design strategy promotes the creative findings of novel iridium(III) complexes. The current molecular design strategies for iridium(III) complexes mainly depend on the selective cyclometalation of the ligands with the iridium(III) ion, which is governed by the steric hindrance of the ligand during the cyclometalation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of highly efficient cyclometalated phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes is greatly promoted by their rational molecular design. Manipulating the excited states of iridophosphors could endow them with appealing photophysical properties, which play vital roles in triplet state-related photofunctional applications (, electroluminescence, photodynamic therapy, ). In general, the most effective approach for decreasing the emission energies of iridophosphors is to extend the π-skeleton of ligands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMonoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), as a vital drug target for various central nervous system diseases, locates in mitochondria and is mainly responsible for the oxidative inactivation of neurotransmitter amines. In the present work, a Mito-targeting fluorescent probe (HCCP) was developed to selectively and sensitively detect MAO-A activity, and successfully applied for the real-time monitoring endogenous MAO-A in living cells and tissues. Additionally, a high-throughput screening platform was established using HCCP and the inhibitory effects of 210 kinds of Herbal medicines toward MAO-A were evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive inflammatory joint disease. Early diagnosis is critical for timely therapeutic intervention. However, it lacks effective diagnostic methods capable of detecting disease progression in its early stage and evaluating treatment efficacy in clinics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the characterizations of degenerative cartilage disease is the progressive loss of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). The real-time imaging method to quantify GAGs is of great significance for the biochemical analysis of cartilage and diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of cartilage degeneration . To this end, a cationic photoacoustic (PA) contrast agent, poly-l-lysine melanin nanoparticles (PLL-MNPs), specifically targeting anionic GAGs was developed in this study to investigate whether it can image cartilage degeneration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA major obstacle in osteoarthritis (OA) theranostics is the lack of a timely and accurate monitoring method. It is hypothesized that the loss of anionic glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in articular cartilage reflects the progression of OA. Thus, this study investigated the feasibility of photoacoustic imaging (PAI) applied for monitoring the in vivo course of OA progression via GAG-targeted cationic nanoprobes.
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December 2019
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease accompanies with synovial inflammation and progressive bone destruction. Currently, anti-rheumatic drugs need high dose and frequent use for a long-term, which lead to serious side effect and low patient compliance. To overcome above problems and improve clinical efficacy, nano-technology with targeting ability, sustained release and so forth, has been proposed on RA treatment and already achieved success in RA animal models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhotosensitizers (PSs) are of particular importance for efficient photodynamic therapy (PDT). Challenges for PSs simultaneously possessing strong light-absorbing ability, high O generation by effective intersystem crossing from the singlet to the triplet state, good water-solubility and excellent photostability still exist. Reported here are a new kind of dual-emissive semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) containing fluorescent BODIPY derivatives and near-infrared (NIR) phosphorescent iridium(iii) complexes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is very meaningful to develop bifunctional therapeutic agents which can monitor the tumor hypoxia in real time as well as maintain good photodynamic therapy (PDT) effect under hypoxia. To achieve it, herein, a series of hydrophilic phosphorescent starburst Pt(II) porphyrins as bifunctional therapeutic agents for simultaneous tumor hypoxia imaging and highly efficient PDT have been rationally designed and synthesized. They have been obtained by using Pt(II) porphyrins as the functional core and cationic oligofluorenes as the arms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhotodynamic therapy (PDT) through the generation of singlet oxygen utilizing photosensitizers (PSs) is significantly limited under hypoxic conditions in solid tumors. So it is meaningful to develop effective PSs which can maintain excellent therapeutic effects under hypoxia. Here we reported a coumarin-modified cyclometalated Ru(ii) photosensitizer (), which exhibits lower oxidation potential and stronger absorption in the visible region than the coumarin-free counterpart.
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