[Coral-List] Breakthrough in live coral imaging PREPRINT

[Michael Kühl]

Dear all,
Thanks for your great interest in the paper. Many of you apparently have problems accessing the journal version.
A preprint (almost identical to the accepted paper) is available here:
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/22/088682 
Cheers, Michael

Michael Kuhl
Professor (Aquatic Microbial Ecology)
University of Copenhagen
Department of Biology
Marine Biology Section (MARS)
Strandpromenaden 5
DK-3000 Helsingør, Denmark
mkuhl at bio.ku.dk 


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Dear all,
Check out our new article on live coral imaging with optical coherence tomography!
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Article: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/128/20161003
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"In vivo imaging of coral tissue and skeleton with optical coherence tomography"
Daniel Wangpraseurt, Camilla Wentzel, Steven L. Jacques, Michael Wagner, Michael K?hl ?
Abstract: Application of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for in vivo imaging of tissue and skeleton structure of intact living corals enabled the non-invasive visualization of coral tissue layers (endoderm versus ectoderm), skeletal cavities and special structures such as mesenterial filaments and mucus release from intact living corals. Coral host chromatophores containing green fluorescent protein-like pigment granules appeared hyper-reflective to near-infrared radiation allowing for excellent optical contrast in OCT and a rapid characterization of chromatophore size, distribution and abundance. In vivo tissue plasticity could be quantified by the linear contraction velocity of coral tissues upon illumination resulting in dynamic changes in the live coral tissue surface area, which varied by a factor of 2 between the contracted and expanded state of a coral. Our study provides a novel view on the in vivo organization of coral tissue and skeleton and highlights the import  ance of microstructural dynamics for coral ecophysiology. 
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Feature story:
http://www.octnews.org/articles/6865170/feature-of-the-week-in-vivo-imaging-of-coral-tissu/
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Animations of OCT scans:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXl_vkyIpG45SKgm79ff2w/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0
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Enjoy!
Cheers, Michael K?hl
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Michael K?hl
Professor (Aquatic Microbial Ecology)
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University of Copenhagen
Department of Biology
Marine Biology Section (MARS)
Strandpromenaden 5
DK-3000 Helsing?r, Denmark
mkuhl at bio.ku.dk



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