Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining in histology, the century-old technique, has been the gold standard tool for pathologists to detect anomalies in tissues and detect disorders such as cancer. Even in the modern era, several new label-free imaging techniques have been developed which provide many more precise layers of information, but they have yet to translate to the clinic, mainly due to a lack of direct comparison between these techniques. Here we present the use of laser ablation to produce fiduciary markers to enable the correlation of nonlinear microscopy with the gold-standard tool of histology.
|