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dc.contributor.authorBellini, Nicola
dc.contributor.authorCox, M.J.
dc.contributor.authorHarper, D.J.
dc.contributor.authorStott, S.R.
dc.contributor.authorAshok, P.C.
dc.contributor.authorDholakia, K.
dc.contributor.authorKawaguchi, S.
dc.contributor.authorKing, R.
dc.contributor.authorHorton, T.
dc.contributor.authorBrown, C.T.A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-19T10:01:13Z
dc.date.available2014-11-19T10:01:13Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-13
dc.identifier.citationBellini , N , Cox , M J , Harper , D J , Stott , S R , Ashok , P C , Dholakia , K , Kawaguchi , S , King , R , Horton , T & Brown , C T A 2014 , ' The application of optical coherence tomography to image subsurface tissue structure of antarctic krill Euphausia Superba ' , PLoS One , vol. 9 , no. 10 , e110367 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110367en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 157759470
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: d3763064-0956-4f81-8757-c3bda74899e6
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84907969468
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000343210300110
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4405-6677/work/86537151
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/5794
dc.descriptionThe collection and rearing of krill specimens was funded by Australian Antarctic Division science programme Project 4037 (Experimental Krill Biology: Response of krill to environmental change), and Project 4050 (Assessing change in krill distribution and abundance in Eastern Antarctica). MJC is funded by Australian Research Council grant FS110200057. The OCT imaging was funded in part by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant EP/G061688/1, the European Union European Union project FAMOS (FP7 ICT, contract no. 317744) and the CR-UK/EPSRC/MRC/DoH (England) imaging programme. DH was funded by a School of Physics and Astronomy Student Staff Council Vacation Award research studentship.en
dc.description.abstractMany small open ocean animals, such as Antarctic krill, are an important part of marine ecosystems. To discover what will happen to animals such as krill in a changing ocean, experiments are run in aquaria where conditions can be controlled to simulate water characteristics predicted to occur in the future. The response of individual animals to changing water conditions can be hard to observe, and with current observation techniques it is very difficult to follow the progress of an individual animal through its life. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical imaging technique that allows images at high resolution to be obtained from depths up to a few millimeters inside biological specimens. It is compatible with in vivo imaging and can be used repeatedly on the same specimens. In this work, we show how OCT may be applied to post mortem krill samples and how important physiological data such as shell thickness and estimates of organ volume can be obtained. Using OCT we find an average value for the thickness of krill exoskeleton to be (30±4) µm along a 1 cm length of the animal body. We also show that the technique may be used to provide detailed imagery of the internal structure of a pleopod joint and provide an estimate for the heart volume of (0.73±0.03) mm3.
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dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rights© 2014 Bellini et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleThe application of optical coherence tomography to image subsurface tissue structure of antarctic krill Euphausia Superbaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110367
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0110367#s5en
dc.identifier.grantnumber317744en
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/G061688/1en


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