We demonstrate applications of photonic-force optical coherence elastography (PF-OCE) on imaging three-dimensional (3D) micro-scale mechanical heterogeneity in collagen phantoms and cell-modified extracellular matrix. In collagen, we observed strong correlations between the measured mechanical heterogeneity and local OCT intensity in the vicinity of beads, which could be related to the presence of fibrous structures. Moreover, we quantitatively imaged micro-scale localized stiffening and increased heterogeneities in fibers surrounding an isolated NIH-3T3 fibroblast enclosed in a 2.5 mg/mL fibrin gel with a volumetric field-of-view (FOV) of ~80μm×350μm×50μm. Our results show that PF-OCE is able to characterize 3D micromechanical properties of biomaterials, and has the potential to observe dynamics of cell-ECM interactions.
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