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

abstract：:Photospallation is proposed as the primary mechanism behind our recent animal studies involving corneal ablation by nanosecond-pulse mid-IR laser beams. Following a brief summary of earlier work directed to refractive procedures in the mid-IR, a preliminary analysis is presented, based on simple one-dimensional models...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hoffman HJ,Telfair WB

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary focus of neurointensive care is monitoring the injured brain to detect harmful events that can impair cerebral blood flow (CBF), resulting in further injury. Since current noninvasive methods used in the clinic can only assess blood flow indirectly, the goal of this research is to develop an optical techniqu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Diop M,Tichauer KM,Elliott JT,Migueis M,Lee TY,St Lawrence K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy is an optical technique able to interrogate biological tissues, giving us an understanding of the changes in molecular structure that are associated with disease development. The Kerr-gated Raman spectroscopy technique uses a picosecond pulsed laser as well as fast temporal gating of collected Raman...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Prieto MC,Matousek P,Towrie M,Parker AW,Wright M,Ritchie AW,Stone N

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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：:The present report addresses the application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon for urea sensing. The former promises a high sensitivity, label-free detection, and real-time information by monitoring the refractive index change at the metal–dielectric interface. In the present report, a highly sensitive ure...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Paliwal A,Tomar M,Gupta V

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical resection of pancreatic cancer represents the only chance of cure and long-term survival in this common disease. Unfortunately, determination of a cancer-free margin at surgery is based on one or two tiny frozen section biopsies, which is far from ideal. Not surprisingly, cancer is usually left behind and is ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cromey B,McDaniel A,Matsunaga T,Vagner J,Kieu KQ,Banerjee B

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:We compared light-induced fluorescence (LIF) to nominal injected drug dose for predicting the depth of necrosis response to photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a murine tumor model. Mice were implanted with radiation-induced fibrosarcoma (RIF) and were injected with 0, 5, or 10 mg/kg Photofrin. 630-nm light (30 J/cm(2), 75 ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cheung R,Solonenko M,Busch TM,Del Piero F,Putt ME,Hahn SM,Yodh AG

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：: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：: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：:The optical activity of glucose molecules is important for diagnosing and monitoring blood glucose of diabetes. In order to accurately detect the diabetes at an early stage, there is an urgent need to develop innovative detection methods. By use of Mueller matrix decomposition (MMD), we have studied the optical activi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sun P,Ma Y,Liu W,Yang Q,Jia Q

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that doubly-resonant coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering can provide enhanced and highly specific contrast for molecules containing unique Raman-active small molecular groups. This combination provides contrast for molecules that can otherwise be difficult to discriminate by Raman spectroscopy. Here, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Weeks T,Schie I,den Hartigh LJ,Rutledge JC,Huser T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of biological systems by spectroscopic techniques involves the evaluation of hundreds to thousands of variables. Hence, different statistical approaches are used to elucidate regions that discriminate classes of samples and to propose new vibrational markers for explaining various phenomena like disease m...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Oliveira Mendes Td,Pinto LP,Santos LD,Tippavajhala VK,Téllez Soto CA,Martin AA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical measurements of metabolism are ideally acquired in vivo; however, intravital measurements are often impractical. Accurate ex vivo assessments would greatly broaden the applicability of optical measurements of metabolism. We investigate the use of live tissue culture experiments to serve as a surrogate for in v...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Walsh AJ,Poole KM,Duvall CL,Skala MC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under ultraviolet and visible light excitation, melanin is essentially a nonfluorescent substance. This work reports our study on near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence properties of melanins, and explores potential applications of NIR fluorescence techniques for evaluating skin disorders involving melanin. The NIR fluoresc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Z,Zeng H,Hamzavi I,Alajlan A,Tan E,McLean DI,Lui H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the distribution of light inside any turbid media, such as biological tissue, requires detailed information about the optical properties of the medium, including the absorption and scattering coefficients and the anisotropy factor. Particularly, in biophotonic applications where photons directly interact wi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Azimipour M,Baumgartner R,Liu Y,Jacques SL,Eliceiri K,Pashaie R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a long time, the antioxidative status in cattle has been discussed as an indicator for stress conditions resulting from disease or exertion. Until now, invasive approaches have been necessary to obtain blood samples or biopsy materials and gain insights into the antioxidative status of cattle. Due to these efforts...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Klein J,Darvin ME,Müller KE,Lademann J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel nitroimidazole indocyanine dye conjugate for tumor-targeted hypoxia fluorescence tomography. The hypoxia probe has been evaluated in vitro using tumor cell lines and in vivo with tumor targeting in mice. The in vitro cell studies were performed to assess fluorescence labeling differences betw...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Biswal NC,Pavlik C,Smith MB,Aguirre A,Xu Y,Zanganeh S,Kuhn LT,Claffey KP,Zhu Q

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suture ligation of blood vessels during surgery can be time-consuming and skill-intensive. Energy-based, electrosurgical, and ultrasonic devices have recently replaced the use of sutures and mechanical clips (which leave foreign objects in the body) for many surgical procedures, providing rapid hemostasis during surge...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cilip CM,Rosenbury SB,Giglio N,Hutchens TC,Schweinsberger GR,Kerr D,Latimer C,Nau WH,Fried NM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present in vivo human total retinal blood flow measurements using Doppler Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). The scan pattern consisted of two concentric circles around the optic nerve head, transecting all retinal branch arteries and veins. The relative positions of each blood vessel in the two OCT...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang Y,Bower BA,Izatt JA,Tan O,Huang D

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumpectomy coupled with radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy is commonly used to treat breast cancer patients. We are developing an enhanced thermal IR imaging technique that has the potential to provide real-time imaging to guide tissue excision during a lumpectomy by delineating tumor margins. This enhanced thermal...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Case JR,Young MA,Dréau D,Trammell SR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrillar collagen network in tumor and normal tissues is different due to remodeling of the extracellular matrix during the malignant process. Collagen type I fibers have the crystalline and noncentrosymmetric properties required for generating the second-harmonic signal. The content and structure of collagen wer...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hompland T,Erikson A,Lindgren M,Lindmo T,de Lange Davies C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of thiazone, a widely used penetration enhancer, on in vitro porcine skin and muscle tissue by single-integrating sphere technique during optical clearing (OC) treatment. The results showed that thiazone induced an increase on the total transmittance of skin which led to a reduction in that ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jin X,Deng Z,Wang J,Ye Q,Mei J,Zhou W,Zhang C,Tian J

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：UNLABELLED:Temperature changes caused by laser irradiation can promote damage to the surrounding dental tissues. In this study, we evaluated the temperature changes of recently extracted human mandibular incisors during intracanal irradiation with an 810-nm diode laser at different settings. Fifty mandibular incisors w...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： da Fonseca Alvarez A,Moura-Netto C,Daliberto Frugoli A,Fernando C,Aranha AC,Davidowicz H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water content is an important factor for skin condition. The determination of the hydration state of the skin is necessary to obtain basic knowledge about the penetration and loss of water in the skin stratum corneum. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy is used to measure hy...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lucassen GW,van Veen GN,Jansen JA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal nanoparticles can be functionalized with biomolecules to selectively localize in precancerous tissues and can act as optical contrast enhancers for reflectance-based diagnosis of epithelial precancer. We carry out Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to analyze photon propagation through nanoparticle-labeled tissues and...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cihan C,Arifler D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00