Consensus guidelines for cellular label-free optical metabolic imaging: ensuring accuracy and reproducibility in metabolic profiling
We recommend a consistent, practical framework for reproducible, label-free, optical metabolic imaging, facilitating robust comparisons across studies and supporting the broader adoption of optical metabolic imaging technologies for biomedical research and clinical translation.
Authors
- Sangeeta Murugkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-4893)
- Michael Evers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6461-4891)
- K. Robert Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-1635)
- Alex J. Walsh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3832-8207)
- Suman Ranjit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3058-6332)
- Xingde Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4725-3297)
- Alba Alfonso‐García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6748-3751)
- Ahmed A. Heikal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-4033)
- Wonsang Hwang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6156-9554)
- Michelle A. Digman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4611-7100)
- Belén Torrado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0679-3422)
- Lingyan Shi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1373-3206)
- Mihaela Balu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8018-5134)
- Amani A. Gillette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1470-3300)
- He N. Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-2629)
- Matthew Lindley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8164-8479)
- Michael G. Nichols (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6565-6743)
- Jessica P. Houston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8201-6396)
- Stephen A. Boppart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9386-5630)
- Chiara Stringari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0550-7463)
- Roger J. Zemp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6802-5624)
- Alexander Vallmitjana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7149-9385)
- Kyle P. Quinn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6876-3608)
- Narasimhan Rajaram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1224-8567)
- Laura Marcu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-0748)
- Irene Georgakoudi
- Kayvan Samimi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-612X)
- Conor L. Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2185-6505)
- Janet E. Sorrells (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-8509)
- Raluca Niesner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8969-5432)
- Sapun H. Parekh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-1854)
- Rupsa Datta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6432-2389)
- Melissa C. Skala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6320-7637)
- Kylie R. Dunning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0462-6479)
- Lin Z. Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-7982)
- Zhiyi Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-8474)
- Sixian You
- Kevin W. Eliceiri
Institutions
- New Mexico State University (US)
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Creighton University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Georgetown University (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Morgridge Institute for Research (US)
- Focused Photonics (China) (CN)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (US)
- La Jolla Bioengineering Institute (US)
- Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (US)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Carleton University (CA)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Texas A&M University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Biomedical Optics
- Published
- 2025-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jbo.30.s2.s23901
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.54
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- University of Pennsylvania
- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- National Institutes of Health
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania