Measuring contraction propagation and localizing pacemaker cells using high speed video microscopy.

abstract：:Microscopic visualization of islets of Langerhans under normal and diabetic conditions is essential for understanding the pathophysiology of the disease. The intrinsic opacity of pancreata, however, limits optical accessibility for high-resolution light microscopy of islets in situ. Because the standard microtome-base...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fu YY,Lu CH,Lin CW,Juang JH,Enikolopov G,Sibley E,Chiang AS,Tang SC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrally resolved two-photon excited autofluorescence imaging is used to distinguish different cell types and functional areas during dynamic processes in the living gut. Excitation and emission spectra of mucosal tissue and tissue components are correlated to spectra of endogenous chromophores. We show that selecti...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Orzekowsky-Schroeder R,Klinger A,Martensen B,Blessenohl M,Gebert A,Vogel A,Hüttmann G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present Monte Carlo modeling studies to provide a quantitative understanding of contrast observed in spatially resolved reflectance spectra of normal and highly dysplastic cervical tissue. Simulations have been carried out to analyze the sensitivity of spectral measurements to a range of changes in epithelial and s...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Arifler D,MacAulay C,Follen M,Richards-Kortum R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier domain (FD) techniques have increasingly gained attention in optical coherence tomography (OCT). This is primarily due to their demonstrated sensitivity of two to three orders of magnitude over conventional time-domain techniques. FDOCT images are subject to two primary sources of artifacts. First, a complex c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Davis AM,Choma MA,Izatt JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) provide complementary views of the retina, with the former collecting fluorescence data with good lateral but relatively low-axial resolution, and the latter collecting label-free backscattering data with comparable lateral but much higher axia...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhang P,Zam A,Jian Y,Wang X,Li Y,Lam KS,Burns ME,Sarunic MV,Pugh EN Jr,Zawadzki RJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sampling region size and tissue heterogeneity is examined using fluorescence histogram assessment in a rat prostate tumor model with benzoporphyrin derivative fluorophore. Spatial heterogeneity in the fluorescence signal occurs on both macroscopic and microscopic scales. The periphery of the tumor is mor...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pogue BW,Chen B,Zhou X,Hoopes PJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:The earliest steps of breast cancer begin with aberrations in mammary ductal structure. Techniques that enable an investigator to image in situ and then analyze the same tissue using biochemical tools facilitates identification of genetic networks and signaling pathways active in the imaged structure. Cellular confoca...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Parrish A,Halama E,Tilli MT,Freedman M,Furth PA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models are widely used to investigate the pathological mechanisms of spinal cord injury (SCI), most commonly in rats. It is well known that compromised blood flow caused by mechanical disruption of the vasculature can produce irreversible damage and cell death in hypoperfused tissue regions and spinal cord tiss...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Phillips JP,Cibert-Goton V,Langford RM,Shortland PJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:In the present study, we evaluated the applicability of ex vivo photoacoustic imaging (PAI) on small animal organs. We used photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to visualize infarcted areas within murine hearts and compared these data to other imaging techniques [magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), micro-computed tomography] ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Holotta M,Grossauer H,Kremser C,Torbica P,Völkl J,Degenhart G,Esterhammer R,Nuster R,Paltauf G,Jaschke W

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser-assisted cartilage reshaping is mediated by thermally induced stress relaxation, and may be used to alter cartilage morphology for reconstructive surgical procedures in the upper airway and face without carving, morselizing, or suturing. Internal stress σ(t), integrated backscattered light intensity I(t) from a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wong BJ,Milner TE,Kim HH,Stuart Nelson J,Sobol EN

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：: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：SIGNIFICANCE:Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) is an imaging modality that projects spatially modulated light patterns to determine optical property maps for absorption and reduced scattering of biological tissue via a pixel-by-pixel data acquisition and analysis procedure. Compressive sensing (CS) is a signal pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mellors BOL,Bentley A,Spear AM,Howle CR,Dehghani H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capabilities of micro-Raman spectroscopy for differentiating normal and malignant nasopharyngeal tissues were evaluated. Raman scattering signals were acquired from 22 normal and 52 malignant nasopharyngeal tissue samples. Distinctive spectral differences in Raman spectra between normal and malignant nasopharyngea...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Li Y,Pan J,Chen G,Li C,Lin S,Shao Y,Feng S,Huang Z,Xie S,Zeng H,Chen R

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Intravascular near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging offers a new approach for characterizing atherosclerotic plaque, but random catheter positioning within the vessel lumen results in variable light attenuation and can yield inaccurate measurements. We hypothesized that NIRF measurements could be corrected for var...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Dixon AJ,Hossack JA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a wide-field optical tomography technique, which allows the measurement-guided optimization of illumination patterns for enhanced reconstruction performances. The iterative optimization of the excitation pattern aims at reducing the dynamic range in photons transmitted through biological tissue. It increas...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Venugopal V,Intes X

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a potential clinical tool for enamel lesion monitoring. Swept-source OCT findings were compared with cross-sectional nanohardness findings of enamel. Subsurface bovine enamel lesions in three groups were subjected to (1) deionized water (control), (2) phosphoryl oligosaccharide of...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mandurah MM,Sadr A,Shimada Y,Kitasako Y,Nakashima S,Bakhsh TA,Tagami J,Sumi Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New diagnostic tools are needed for the characterization of dental caries in the early stages of development. If carious lesions are detected early enough, they can be arrested without the need for surgical intervention. The objective of this study was to demonstrate that polarization sensitive optical coherence tomog...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fried D,Xie J,Shafi S,Featherstone JD,Breunig TM,Le C

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using commercially available organic fluorophores, the current applications of Förster (fluorescence) resonance energy transfer (FRET) are limited to about 80 Å. However, many essential activities in cells are spatially and/or temporally dependent on the assembly/disassembly of transient complexes consisting of large-...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Maliwal BP,Raut S,Fudala R,D'Auria S,Marzullo VM,Luini A,Gryczynski I,Gryczynski Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system, astrocyte has been one of main research topics in neuroscience. Although various tools have been developed, at present, there is no tool that allows noninvasive activation of astrocyte in vivo without genetic or pharmacological perturbation. Here we report ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Choi M,Yoon J,Ku T,Choi K,Choi C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of infrared neural stimulation (INS) has been developed to allow the temporal characteristics of different stimulation parameters and geometries to be better understood. The model uses a finite element approach to solve the heat equation and allow detailed analysis of heat during INS with both microsecond and ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Thompson AC,Wade SA,Cadusch PJ,Brown WG,Stoddart PR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the first application of Raman spectroscopy in diagnosing nonmalignant, premalignant, malignant, and metastatic stages of breast cancer in a three-dimensional (3-D) cell culture model that closely mimics an in vivo environment. Comprehensive study comparing classification in two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Damayanti NP,Fang Y,Parikh MR,Craig AP,Kirshner J,Irudayaraj J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) is a powerful technique for detecting arrangement of fluorophores in images. This tutorial gives background into the mathematical underpinnings of ICS, specifically image autocorrelation. The effects of various artifacts and image processing steps, including background subtraction,...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Robertson C,George SC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally compare the performance and image contrast of spontaneous Raman and coherent Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. We demonstrate the differences between these techniques on a series of geometry-controlled samples that range in complexity from a point (array of tips) to one-dimensional (line grating) a...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kim H,Michaels CA,Bryant GW,Stranick SJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoporphyrin IX (PpIX)-encapsulated mesoporous silica nanoparticles were synthesized, characterized, and utilized for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer. Silica encapsulation is relatively transparent for activated light and can protect the PpIX against denaturation induced by the extreme bioenvironment. The mesop...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Qian J,Gharibi A,He S

更新日期：2009-01-01 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