Modulation transfer function measurement of scanning reflectance microscopes.

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based elasticity imaging can map soft tissue elasticity based on speckle-tracking of elastic wave propagation using highly sensitive phase measurements of OCT signals. Using a fixed elastic wave source and moving detection, current imaging sequences have difficulty in reconstructing ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hsieh BY,Song S,Nguyen TM,Yoon SJ,Shen TT,Wang RK,O'Donnell M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time monitoring of functional tissue parameters, such as local blood oxygenation, based on optical imaging could provide groundbreaking advances in the diagnosis and interventional therapy of various diseases. Although photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a modality with great potential to measure optical absorption dee...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kirchner T,Gröhl J,Maier-Hein L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In laser retinal photocoagulation, short (<20 ms) pulses have been found to reduce thermal damage to the inner retina, decrease treatment time, and minimize pain. However, the safe therapeutic window (defined as the ratio of power for producing a rupture to that of mild coagulation) decreases with shorter exposures. T...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sramek C,Paulus Y,Nomoto H,Huie P,Brown J,Palanker D

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an important physiological parameter that characterizes vascular stiffness. In this letter, we present electrocardiogram-synchronized, photoacoustic microscopy for noninvasive quantification of the PWV in the peripheral vessels of living mice. Interestingly, blood pulse wave-induced ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yeh C,Hu S,Maslov K,Wang LV

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inexpensive near-infrared microscopy (NIRM) was developed as a convenient technique to detect the medulla loss of scalp hair while reducing analytical time with easy sample preparation, leading to a field screening tool for breast cancer. NIRM has been evaluated as an alternative to synchrotron-based nanoscopy and to ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Choi Y,Jeong YJ,Jeon JG,Park SH,Choi HR,Kim JK

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports a miniaturized laparoscopic zoom camera that can significantly improve vision for minimally invasive surgery (MIS), also known as laparoscopic surgery. The laparoscopic zoom camera contains bioinspired fluidic lenses that can change curvature and focal length in a manner similar to the crystalline le...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tsai FS,Johnson D,Francis CS,Cho SH,Qiao W,Arianpour A,Mintz Y,Horgan S,Talamini M,Lo YH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose is to evaluate intramucosal gastric pH video imaging by 2('),7(')-bis(carboxyethyl)-5,6-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF) fluorescence ratio techniques. We use a video endoscopic imaging system and BCECF as the pH fluorescent probe. Systemic in vivo pH variations are studied in 10 pigs: five in the control group ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rochon P,Jourdain M,Mangalaboyi J,Fourrier F,Soulié-Bégu S,Buys B,Dehlin G,Lesage JC,Chambrin MC,Mordon S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amblyopia is a form of visual impairment caused by ocular misalignment (strabismus) or defocus in an otherwise healthy eye. If detected early, the condition can be fully treated, yet over half of all children with amblyopia under age 5 escape detection. We developed a Pediatric Vision Screener (PVS) to detect amblyopi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Nassif DS,Piskun NV,Gramatikov BI,Guyton DL,Hunter DG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in tumor cells was found to play an important role in maintaining the malignant phenotype. Using laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy (LSCFM) in a recent work, we reported a variable fluorescence intensity of ethidium bromide (EB) in mitochondria nucleoids of living carcinoma cells...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Villa AM,Fusi P,Pastori V,Amicarelli G,Pozzi C,Adlerstein D,Doglia SM

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:We present three-dimensional (3-D) high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence microscopy (SD-OCM) by using a supercontinuum (SC) fiber laser source with 300-nm spectral bandwidth (full-width at half-maximum) in the 1700-nm spectral band. By using low-coherence interferometry with SC light and a confocal detecti...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yamanaka M,Hayakawa N,Nishizawa N

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current techniques to assess lymph node metastases in cancer patients include lymphoscintigraphy after administration of a nonspecific radiocolloid in order to locate and resect lymph nodes for pathological examination of harbored cancer cells. Clinical trials involving intradermal or subcutaneous injection of antibod...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sampath L,Wang W,Sevick-Muraca EM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synchrotron light source dedicated to medical applications has been designed at National Institute of Radiological Sciences. The storage ring, with circumference of 80 m, is designed for acceleration of 2.3 GeV and a stored current of 420 mA. It is equipped with two multipole wigglers to produce sufficient photon fl...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Torikoshi M,Tsunoo T,Endo M,Noda K,Kumada M,Yamada S,Soga F,Hyodo K

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:The measurement of changes in blood volume in tissue is important for monitoring the effects of a wide range of therapeutic interventions, from radiation therapy to skin-flap transplants. Many systems available for purchase are either expensive or difficult to use, limiting their utility in the clinical setting. A low...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Glennie DL,Hayward JE,McKee DE,Farrell TJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the use of a Teflon-AF liquid core optical fiber (LCOF) geometry to enhance the collection of Raman scattering from the biochemical creatinine, dissolved in water and in urine. At short integration times, where shot noise is most troublesome, the enhanced signal leads to greater accuracy in estimating the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Qi D,Berger AJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a slowly propagating wave of depolarization of neurons and glia and has a less characterized vascular component. CSD is a commonly used phenomenon to test new methods of live brain imaging. Application of a blood pulsations imaging (BPI) technique to study of CSD induced with hig...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Teplov V,Shatillo A,Nippolainen E,Gröhn O,Giniatullin R,Kamshilin AA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main curative therapy for patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer is surgery. Despite this, the survival rate is only 50%, therefore it is important to more efficiently diagnose and predict prognosis for lung cancer patients. Raman spectroscopy is useful in the diagnosis of malignant and premalignant lesions. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Magee ND,Beattie JR,Carland C,Davis R,McManus K,Bradbury I,Fennell DA,Hamilton PW,Ennis M,McGarvey JJ,Elborn JS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anastomotic complication is a major morbidity associated with esophagectomy. Gastric ischemia after conduit creation contributes to anastomotic complications, but a reliable method to assess oxygenation in the gastric conduit is lacking. We hypothesize that fiber optic spectroscopy can reliably assess conduit oxygenat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gareau DS,Truffer F,Perry KA,Pham TH,Enestvedt CK,Dolan JP,Hunter JG,Jacques SL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcirculation lesion is a common symptom of chronic liver diseases in the form of vasculature deformation and circulation alteration. In acute to chronic liver diseases such as biliary atresia, microcirculation lesion can have an early onset. Detection of microcirculation lesion is meaningful for studying the progr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yan J,Kang Y,Xu S,Ong LL,Zhuo S,Bunte RM,Chen N,Asada HH,So PT,Wanless IR,Yu H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilot results on the application of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach for studying the implementation of the optical immersion technique for the visualization of single and multiple gold nanoparticles in biological cells are presented. We focus on two different scenarios considering single biological c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tanev S,Tuchin VV,Paddon P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) provides a powerful tool for fast and noninvasive disease diagnosis. The ability to leverage DOS to accurately quantify tissue optical parameters hinges on the model used to estimate light-tissue interaction. We describe the accuracy of a lookup table (LUT)-based inverse model for me...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Nichols BS,Rajaram N,Tunnell JW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective laser targeting of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is an attractive method for treating RPE-associated disorders. We are developing a method for optically detecting intracellular microcavitation that can potentially serve as an immediate feedback of the treatment outcome. Thermal denaturation or intrace...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lee H,Alt C,Pitsillides CM,Lin CP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time photoacoustic imaging system is designed and built. This system is based on a commercially available ultrasound imaging system. It can achieve a frame rate of 8 frames/sec. Vasculature in the hand of a human volunteer is imaged, and the resulting photoacoustic image is combined with the ultrasound image. T...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kolkman RG,Brands PJ,Steenbergen W,van Leeuwen TG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar glass waveguides with a specific number of modes were fabricated by Ag(+)-Na(+) exchange in Schott SG11 glass. The effective refractive indices were determined using m-line spectroscopy in both s- and p-polarization. By using the reversed Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, the index profiles were describe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hassanzadeh A,Nitsche M,Armstrong S,Nabavi N,Harrison R,Dixon SJ,Langbein U,Mittler S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of deep venous thrombosis (DVT)--a primary cause of potentially fatal pulmonary embolism (PE)--depends on the age of the thrombus. The existing clinical imaging methods are capable of visualizing a thrombus but cannot determine the age of the blood clot. Therefore, there is a need for an imaging technique to...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Karpiouk AB,Aglyamov SR,Mallidi S,Shah J,Scott WG,Rubin JM,Emelianov SY

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical microanglography (OMAG) is a recently developed imaging modality capable of volumetric imaging of dynamic blood perfusion, down to capillary level resolution, with an imaging depth up to 2.00 mm beneath the tissue surface. We report the use of OMAG to monitor the cerebral blood flow (CBF) over the cortex of mo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jia Y,Alkayed N,Wang RK

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Fourier transform spectrometer is used to simultaneously measure distance, dispersion and spectrum. It is shown that short coherence interferometry has the potential to measure the three-dimensional distribution of the spatial structure of a sample with a resolution determined by the coherence length of the light so...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hellmuth T,Welle M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective photothermal interaction using dye enhancement has proven to be effective in minimizing surrounding tissue damage and delivering energy to target tissue. During laser irradiation, the process of photon absorption and thermal energy diffusion in the target tissue and its surrounding tissue are crucial. Such i...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Crochet JJ,Gnyawali SC,Chen Y,Lemley EC,Wang LV,Chen WR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for lung cancer detection exploiting reflectance spectra measured in vivo during endoscopic imaging of the lung. The measured reflectance spectra were analyzed using a specially developed light-transport model to obtain quantitative information about cancer-related, physiological, and morphologic c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fawzy YS,Petek M,Tercelj M,Zeng H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00