Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared and polarization spectroscopy of in vivo human skin ablated, layer by layer, by erbium:YAG laser.

abstract：:We present the application of a microfluidic optical cell stretcher to measure the elasticity of malaria-infected red blood cells. The measurements confirm an increase in host cell rigidity during the maturation of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The device combines the selectivity and sensitivity of single-cell e...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mauritz JM,Tiffert T,Seear R,Lautenschläger F,Esposito A,Lew VL,Guck J,Kaminski CF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of silica/gold nanoshells and titanium dioxide nanoparticles on the optical properties of skin is studied. By implementing in vivo measurements and Monte Carlo simulations, we analyze the efficiency of using these nanoparticles as contrasting agents for optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of skin. In...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kirillin M,Shirmanova M,Sirotkina M,Bugrova M,Khlebtsov B,Zagaynova E

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is being increasingly applied to affective and social neuroscience research; however, the reliability of this method is still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the test–retest reliability of the fNIRS-based prefrontal response to emotional stimuli. Twenty-six participa...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Y,Mao M,Zhang Z,Zhou H,Zhao Y,Duan L,Kreplin U,Xiao X,Zhu C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study is the quantitative analysis of the dose-time dependences of changes occurring in collagen of bladder and rectum after gamma-irradiation using optical methods [nonlinear microscopy in a second harmonic generation (SHG) detection regime and cross-polarization optical coherence tomography (CP ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kochueva M,Dudenkova V,Kuznetsov S,Varlamova A,Sergeeva E,Kiseleva E,Maslennikova A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color Doppler optical coherence tomography (CDOCT) is a functional extension of optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can image flow in turbid media. We have developed a CDOCT system capable of imaging flow in real time. Doppler processing of the analog signal is accomplished in hardware in the time domain using a n...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rollins AM,Yazdanfar S,Barton JK,Izatt JA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) combines confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT) to improve imaging depth and contrast, enabling cellular imaging in human tissues. We aim to investigate OCM for ex vivo imaging of upper and lower gastrointestinal tract tissues, to establish correlations between OC...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Aguirre AD,Chen Y,Bryan B,Mashimo H,Huang Q,Connolly JL,Fujimoto JG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer simulation called RHME (Retinal Heating in Moving Eye) is developed to simulate the heating pattern that occurs in the retina during a long-duration exposure to a continuous wave laser beam. The simulation takes into account eye movements that occur during a deliberate fixation. Due to the rapid (millisecon...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lund BJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our long-term goal was to investigate the potential of incorporating redox imaging technique as a breast cancer (BC) diagnosis component to increase the positive predictive value of suspicious imaging finding and to reduce unnecessary biopsies and overdiagnosis. We previously found that precancer and cancer tissues in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Xu HN,Tchou J,Feng M,Zhao H,Li LZ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective retina treatment (SRT) is a novel short pulsed laser therapy of several retinal diseases associated with a decreased metabolism at the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The range of laser pulse energies is small, in which the desired selective RPE disintegration is achieved without adverse effects to the neu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Neumann J,Brinkmann R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guest editors introduce contributors to the Special Section Celebrating the Exponential Growth of Optoacoustic/Photoacoustic Imaging. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Beard P,Anastasio M,Oraevsky AA,Wang LV

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (tMRO2) is a clinically relevant marker for a number of pathologies including cancer and arterial occlusive disease. We present and validate a noncontact method for quantitatively mapping tMRO2 over a wide, scalable field of view at 16  frames  /  s. We achieve this by d...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ghijsen M,Lentsch GR,Gioux S,Brenner M,Durkin AJ,Choi B,Tromberg BJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an imaging-based method for noncontact spirometry. The method tracks the subtle respiratory-induced shoulder movement of a subject, builds a calibration curve, and determines the flow-volume spirometry curve and vital respiratory parameters, including forced expiratory volume in the first second, forced vit...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu C,Yang Y,Tsow F,Shao D,Tao N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present for the first time in vivo full three-dimensional (3-D) photoacoustic tomography (PAT) of the distal interphalangeal joint in a human subject. Both absorbed energy density and absorption coefficient images of the joint are quantitatively obtained using our finite-element-based photoacoustic image reconstruc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sun Y,Sobel E,Jiang H

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental metastability of zirconia (ZrO2) ceramic in the human body [represented by a tetragonal-to-monoclinic (t→m) phase transformation] takes place on the surface of the artificial joint and proceeds with time toward its interior. Its quantitative characterization is mandatory for the safety of joint implants ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhu W,Sugano N,Pezzotti G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technology for high-resolution, noncontact imaging of transparent and scattering media. Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is a functional extension of OCT that can image birefringent properties of a biological sample. PS-OCT was used to measu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Götzinger E,Pircher M,Sticker M,Fercher AF,Hitzenberger CK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first experimental result of direct delineation of the nuclei of living rat bladder epithelium with ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography (uOCT). We demonstrate that the cellular details embedded in the speckle noise in a uOCT image can be uncovered by time-lapse frame averaging that takes a...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pan YT,Wu ZL,Yuan ZJ,Wang ZG,Du CW

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of polarized light emerging from turbid media in the exact backscattering direction are studied by modulating the incident light polarization state and isolating the synchronous signal with lock-in amplifier detection. The results are reported for polystyrene microsphere suspensions in distilled water, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Studinski RC,Vitkin IA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple wide-field imaging technique, called HiLo microscopy, that is capable of producing optically sectioned images in real time, comparable in quality to confocal laser scanning microscopy. The technique is based on the fusion of two raw images, one acquired with speckle illumination and another with st...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lim D,Ford TN,Chu KK,Mertz J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address the automatic differentiation of human tissue using multispectral imaging with promising potential for automatic visualization during surgery. Currently, tissue types have to be continuously differentiated based on the surgeon's knowledge only. Further, automatic methods based on optical in vivo properties ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wisotzky EL,Uecker FC,Arens P,Dommerich S,Hilsmann A,Eisert P

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim is the development of a simple optical method for pulse wave profile, pulse wave delay time, and blood flow measurement. The method is based on recording the Doppler frequency shift related to a moving target--blood vessel walls or small particles. The Doppler signal is detected using the self-mixing that occu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Meigas K,Hinrikus H,Kattai R,Lass J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extension of optical monitoring of intact tissues from the visible and ultraviolet to the near-infrared (NIR) range (700-1300 nm) was first undertaken in 1977 for the purpose of monitoring the redox behavior of Cytochrome c oxidase (cyt c ox) in vivo. Soon it became evident that the much greater NIR translucency of sk...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jo Bsis-Vandervliet FF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In part I of the study, two attachment systems [O-ring; bar-clip (BC)] were used, and the system with three individualized O-rings provided the lowest stress on the implants and the support tissues. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the stress distribution, through the photoelastic method, on implant-reta...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pesqueira AA,Goiato MC,da Silva EV,Haddad MF,Moreno A,Zahoui A,dos Santos DM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study using a method able to assess tissue oxygenation, taking into account the absorption and the level of scattering in myocardial tissue using a calibrated fiber optic probe. With this method, interindividual comparisons of oxygenation can be made despite varying tissue optical properties during corona...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Häggblad E,Lindbergh T,Karlsson MG,Casimir-Ahn H,Salerud EG,Strömberg T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobiological research in the last 30 yr has shown the existence of ultraweak photon emission in biological tissue, which can be detected with sophisticated photomultiplier systems. Although the emission of this ultraweak radiation, often termed biophotons, is extremely low in mammalian cells, it can be efficiently ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Niggli HJ,Tudisco S,Privitera G,Applegate LA,Scordino A,Musumeci F

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersion encoded full-range (DEFR) frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) and its enhanced version, fast DEFR, utilize dispersion mismatch between sample and reference arm to eliminate the ambiguity in OCT signals caused by non-complex valued spectral measurement, thereby numerically doubling the usa...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang L,Hofer B,Guggenheim JA,Povazay B

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratoconus is an eye disease in which the cornea progressively deforms due to loss of cornea mechanical rigidity, and thus causes deterioration of visual acuity. Techniques to characterize the mechanical characteristics of the cornea are important to better monitor changes and response to treatments. To investigate t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ortega-Martinez A,Touchette G,Zhu H,Kochevar IE,Franco W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence diagnostic techniques are notable amongst many other optical methods because they offer high sensitivity and noninvasive measurement of tissue properties. However, a combination of multiple scattering and physical heterogeneity of biological tissues hampers interpretation of the fluorescence measurements....

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Churmakov DY,Meglinski IV,Greenhalgh DA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially confined and precise time delivery of neuroactive molecules is an important issue in neurophysiology. In this work we developed a technique for delivering chemical stimuli to cultured neurons consisting in encapsulating the molecules of interest in liposomes. These vectors were then loaded in reservoirs cons...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pinato G,Raffaelli T,D'Este E,Tavano F,Cojoc D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by photodynamic therapy (PDT) is recorded in vivo using a chemiluminescence (CL)-based gated optical system. A novel approach is developed to utilize the fluorescence (FL) of the CL probe as an internal fluorescence to calibrate the observed CL on pharmacokinetics of the probe in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wei Y,Xing D,Luo S,Yang L,Chen Q

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical quantification of large lesions imaged with diffuse optical tomography in reflection geometry is depth dependence due to the exponential decay of photon density waves. We introduce a depth-correction method that incorporates the target depth information provided by coregistered ultrasound. It is based on balan...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tavakoli B,Zhu Q

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00