Brillouin imaging for studies of micromechanics in biology and biomedicine: from current state-of-the-art to future clinical translation

Brillouin imaging (BI) is increasingly recognized to be a powerful technique that enables non-invasive measurement of the mechanical properties of cells and tissues on a microscopic scale. This provides an unprecedented means for investigating cell mechanobiology, cell-matrix interactions, tissue biomechanics and other fundamental biological questions. Recent advances in optical hardware have accelerated the development of BI techniques, with...