Methodology for examining polarized light interactions with tissues and tissuelike media in the exact backscattering direction.

abstract：:Biological systems with intrinsic luminescent properties serve as powerful and noninvasive bioreporters for real-time and label-free monitoring of cell physiology. This study employs the bioluminescent marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri to investigate the effects of separated microwave electric (E) and magnetic (H) fiel...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Williams CF,Geroni GM,Lloyd D,Choi H,Clark N,Pirog A,Lees J,Porch A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the design, integration, and validation of a fluorescence microscopy system for imaging of electroperturbation--the effects of nanosecond, megavolt-per-meter pulsed electric fields on biological cells and tissues. Such effects have potential applications in cancer therapy, gene regulation, and biophysical re...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sun Y,Vernier PT,Behrend M,Wang J,Thu MM,Gundersen M,Marcu L

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative polarized light microscopy (qPLM) is a popular tool for the investigation of birefringent architectures in biological tissues. Collagen, the most abundant protein in mammals, is such a birefringent material. Interpretation of results of qPLM in terms of collagen network architecture and anisotropy is chal...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： van Turnhout MC,Kranenbarg S,van Leeuwen JL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autofluorescence, the endogenous fluorescence present in cells and tissues, has historically been considered a nuisance in biomedical imaging. Many endogenous fluorophores, specifically, collagen, elastin, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), are found throughout the human body. In...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Deal J,Mayes S,Browning C,Hill S,Rider P,Boudreaux C,Rich TC,Leavesley SJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We successfully acquire the in vivo Raman spectrum of melanin from human skin using a rapid near-infrared (NIR) Raman spectrometer. The Raman signals of in vivo cutaneous melanin are similar to those observed from natural and synthetic eumelanins. The melanin Raman spectrum is dominated by two intense and broad peaks ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Z,Lui H,Chen XK,Alajlan A,McLean DI,Zeng H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence spectroscopy has been widely investigated as a technique for identifying pathological tissue; however, unrelated subject-to-subject variations in spectra complicate data analysis and interpretation. We describe and evaluate a new biosensing technique, differential laser-induced perturbation spectroscopy (...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kozikowski RT,Smith SE,Lee JA,Castleman WL,Sorg BS,Hahn DW

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new optical parallel detection system of hybrid frequency and continuous-wave domains was developed to improve the data quality and accuracy in recovery of all breast optical properties. This new system was deployed in a previously existing system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided spectroscopy, and allows ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： El-Ghussein F,Mastanduno MA,Jiang S,Pogue BW,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a system combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and multispectral imaging (MSI) for coregistered structural imaging and surface color imaging. We first describe and numerically validate an optimization model to guide the selection of the MSI wavelengths and their relative intensities. We then demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Attendu X,Bourget MH,de Sivry-Houle MP,Boudoux C

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Investigations of foveal aberrations assume circular pupils. However, the pupil becomes increasingly elliptical with increase in visual field eccentricity. We address this and other issues concerning peripheral aberration specification. METHODS:One approach uses an elliptical pupil similar to the actual pupil ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Charman WN,Mathur A,Scott DH,Hartwig A,Atchison DA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A side-viewing, 2.3-mm diameter oblique incidence reflectometry endoscope has been designed to obtain optical property measurements of turbid samples. Light from a single-mode fiber is relayed obliquely onto the tissue with a gradient index lens-based distal optics assembly and the resulting diffuse reflectance profil...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wall RA,Barton JK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present applications of optical coherence tomography (OCT), parameters besides pure morphology are evaluated in skin tissue under in vivo conditions. Spatially mapped refractive indices and scattering coefficients may support tissue characterization for research and diagnostic purposes in cosmetics/pharmacy and...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Knüttel A,Boehlau-Godau M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the relationship between accommodation and vision quality, a custom-built ultra-long scan depth spectral domain optical coherence tomography (UL-SDOCT) and a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (HSWFS) were combined. The resolution and scan depth of UL-SDOCT are 6 μm and 15.6 mm, respectively, which...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shi G,Wang Y,Yuan Y,Wei L,Lv F,Zhang Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erratum concerns amendment of Section 2.5 of the published article. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hu XS,Arredondo MM,Gomba M,Confer N,DaSilva AF,Johnson TD,Shalinsky M,Kovelman I

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:Photothermal optical coherence tomography (PT-OCT) has the promise to offer structural images coregistered with chemical composition information, which can offer a significant impact in early detection of diseases such as atherosclerosis. AIM:We take the first step in understanding the relation between PT...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Salimi M,Villiger M,Tabatabaei N

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate dynamic in vivo imaging using a low-cost portable pulsed laser diode (PLD)-based photoacoustic tomography system. The system takes advantage of an 803-nm PLD having high-repetition rate ∼7000  Hz combined with a fast-scanning single-element ultrasound transducer leading to a 5 s cross-sectional imaging....

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Upputuri PK,Pramanik M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mueller polarimetry is applied to study the samples of nails: natural (or reference) and irradiated to 2 Gy ionizing radiation dose. We measure the whole Mueller matrices of the samples as a function of the scattering angle at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. We apply depolarization analysis to measured Mueller matrices by c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Savenkov S,Priezzhev A,Oberemok Y,Sholom S,Kolomiets I,Chunikhina K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) are designed to monitor membrane potential by detecting fluorescence changes in response to neuronal or muscle electrical activity. However, fluorescence imaging is limited by depth of penetration and high scattering losses, which leads to low sensitivity in vivo systems for external dete...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhang HK,Yan P,Kang J,Abou DS,Le HN,Jha AK,Thorek DL,Kang JU,Rahmim A,Wong DF,Boctor EM,Loew LM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), acquired simultaneously with electroencephalography (EEG), allows the investigation of hemodynamic brain responses to epileptic activity. Because the presumed epileptogenic focus is patient-specific, an appropriate source/detector (SD) montage has to be reconfigured for e...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Machado A,Marcotte O,Lina JM,Kobayashi E,Grova C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence to gain metabolic information on kidneys in response to an alteration in oxygen availability has previously been experimentally demonstrated, but signal quantification has not, to date, been addressed. In this work the relative contribution to ra...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Raman RN,Pivetti CD,Rubenchik AM,Matthews DL,Troppmann C,Demos SG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular heterogeneity is a key factor in a variety of core cellular processes including proliferation, stimulus response, carcinogenesis, and drug resistance. However, cell-to-cell variability studies at the single-cell level have been hampered by the lack of enabling experimental techniques. We present a measur...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kelbauskas L,Ashili SP,Houkal J,Smith D,Mohammadreza A,Lee KB,Forrester J,Kumar A,Anis YH,Paulson TG,Youngbull CA,Tian Y,Holl MR,Johnson RH,Meldrum DR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser photocoagulation is an established treatment for a variety of retinal diseases. However, when using the same irradiation parameter, the size and strength of the lesions are unpredictable due to unknown inter- and intraindividual optical properties of the fundus layers. The aim of this work is to investigate a fe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Schlott K,Koinzer S,Baade A,Birngruber R,Roider J,Brinkmann R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified measurement of macular pigment optical density (MPOD) is important because of the ocular health benefits that are attributed to these retinal carotenoids. Here, we describe a novel instrument designed for this purpose, based on heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP), which removes a number of difficulties...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bone RA,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the light scattering properties of individual human red blood cells (RBCs). We show that both the RBC static and dynamic scattering signals are altered by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP)-driven membrane metabolic remodeling. To measure the light scattering signal from individual RBCs, we use diffraction pha...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Park Y,Best-Popescu CA,Dasari RR,Popescu G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve surgical guidance toward prostate draining lymph nodes, we investigate the potential of intraoperative fluorescence imaging and combined pre- and intraoperative multimodality imaging approaches. Transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate mice with spontaneous prostate tumors are injected intratumorally with: ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： van Leeuwen AC,Buckle T,Bendle G,Vermeeren L,Valdés Olmos R,van de Poel HG,van Leeuwen FW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess microvascular function has shown promising results. An important limitation when using a single source-detector pair, however, is the lack of depth sensitivity. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) overcomes this limitation using an array of sources and detect...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Vidal-Rosas EE,Billings SA,Chico T,Coca D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of fluorescence video imaging to guide surgery is rapidly expanding, and improvements in camera readout dynamic range have not matched display capabilities. Logarithmic intensity compression is a fast, single-step mapping technique that can map the useable dynamic range of high-bit fluorescence images onto the...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： DSouza AV,Lin H,Gunn J,Pogue BW

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse oximeters are widely used for noninvasive monitoring of oxygen saturation in arterial blood hemoglobin. We present a transmittance pulse oximetry system based on near-infrared (NIR) laser diodes (750 and 850 nm) for monitoring oxygen saturation of arterial blood hemoglobin. The pulse oximetry system is made up o...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lopez Silva SM,Dotor Castilla ML,Silveira Martin JP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular therapies hold promise to replace the implantation of whole organs in the treatment of disease. For most cell types, in vivo viability depends on oxygen delivery to avoid the toxic effects of hypoxia. A promising approach is the in situ vascularization of implantable devices which can mediate hypoxia and impr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Weidling J,Sameni S,Lakey JR,Botvinick E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of optical scattering in turbid biological tissues using nonreactive chemical agents has potential applications for light-based diagnostics and therapeutics. Optical clearing effects by exogenous chemical agents, in particular sugars and sugar alcohols, have been found to be temporary with tissue rehydration...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yeh AT,Hirshburg J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed an algorithm for multiplexed fluorescence tomographic imaging of at least four fluorophores concurrently in the red and near-infrared wavelength region by jointly using spectral and temporal data. We report the design of a fluorescence tomography instrument that acquires spectral and temporal dat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mu Y,Pera V,Niedre M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00