Depth-correction algorithm that improves optical quantification of large breast lesions imaged by diffuse optical tomography.

abstract：:Current diagnostic capabilities and limitations of fluorescence endomicroscopy in the cervix are assessed by qualitative and quantitative image analysis. Four cervical tissue types are investigated: normal columnar epithelium, normal and precancerous squamous epithelium, and stromal tissue. This study focuses on the p...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Schlosser C,Bodenschatz N,Lam S,Lee M,McAlpine JN,Miller DM,Van Niekerk DJ,Follen M,Guillaud M,MacAulay CE,Lane PM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that the pathologic components present within the atheromatous plaques of ApoE knock-out mice can reflect significant amounts of mid-infrared (mid-IR) light. Furthermore, the reflected light spectra contained the unique signatures of a variety of biologic features including those found in unstable or "vulner...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Holman HY,Bjornstad KA,Martin MC,McKinney WR,Blakely EA,Blankenberg FG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a useful method to boost the imaging speed for spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) by multiplying a number of high-speed spectrometers used in the system with selective precise control of data-recording and data-reading phases for spectral cameras employed in each spectrometer. To demonstra...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： An L,Guan G,Wang RK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the morphological and chemical changes in the pulp chamber dentin after using endodontic agents by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy (FT-Raman), and micro energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (μEDXRF). Thirty teeth were sectioned exposing the pulp chamber ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pascon FM,Kantovitz KR,Soares LE,Santo AM,Martin AA,Puppin-Rontani RM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical need exists for low-cost and noninvasive imaging tools capable of detecting inflammation in the joints of inflammatory arthritis patients. Previous studies have reported an optical contrast between inflamed and noninflamed joints resulting from distinct absorption and scattering properties. Accurate classif...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lighter D,Filer A,Dehghani H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen plays a very important role in living cells. The intracellular level of oxygen is under tight control, as even a small deviation from normal oxygen level affects major cellular metabolic processes and is likely to result in cellular damage or cell death. This paper describes the use of the oxygen sensitive fluo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Asiedu JK,Ji J,Nguyen M,Rosenzweig N,Rosenzweig Z

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential feature of the confocal laser scanning microscope (cLSM) is the generation of optical sections by the removal of out-of-focus light. About ten years ago, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) was introduced as an alternative method for obtaining optical sections from biological specimens. Here we comp...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Weigel A,Schild D,Zeug A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable optical system is required to acquire a high-quality image. A motionless lensless setup is designated to obtain high-resolution and large field of view images. The sample is sequentially illuminated with multiple random phase patterns, and the recorded images are subtracted from the system calibration images ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hussain A,Li Y,Liu D,Kuang C,Liu X

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical technique based on diffuse reflectance measurement combined with indocyanine green (ICG) bolus tracking is extensively tested as a method for clinical assessment of brain perfusion in adults at the bedside. Methodology of multiwavelength and time-resolved detection of fluorescence light excited in the ICG is p...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gerega A,Milej D,Weigl W,Botwicz M,Zolek N,Kacprzak M,Wierzejski W,Toczylowska B,Mayzner-Zawadzka E,Maniewski R,Liebert A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although perfectly transparent specimens are imaged faster with light-sheet microscopy, less transparent samples are often imaged with two-photon microscopy leveraging its robustness to scattering; however, at the price of increased acquisition times. Clearing methods that are capable of rendering strongly scattering ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Adam MP,Müllenbroich MC,Di Giovanna AP,Alfieri D,Silvestri L,Sacconi L,Pavone FS

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the elasticity of ocular tissue (cornea and intraocular lens) could help the understanding and management of pathologies related to biomechanical deficiency. In previous studies, we introduced a setup based on optical coherence tomography for shear wave elastography (SWE) with high resolution and high se...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Nguyen TM,Arnal B,Song S,Huang Z,Wang RK,O'Donnell M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fiber-guided ablation of soft tissue with pulsed holmium and thulium lasers was investigated for intraluminal incisions. A bare fiber/tissue-contact application system with a nearly tangential irradiation geometry was first used in vitro on porcine ureter tissue. The efficiency and precision of the method was analyzed...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Brinkmann R,Knipper A,Dro Ge G,Schro Er F,Gromoll B,Birngruber R

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Autofluorescence of the cornea within specific wavelength region and dynamic light scattering measurements of ocular tissue have both been used for early-stage detection of the presence of diabetic retinopathy. In the present study, autofluorescence of the cornea and dynamic light scattering in the cornea and vitreous...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rovati L,Fankhauser F,Docchio F,Van Best J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-related enzyme activity can be detected noninvasively using activatable fluorescent molecular probes. In contrast to "always-on" fluorescent molecular probes, activatable probes are relatively nonfluorescent at the time of administration due to intramolecular fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). Enzym...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Solomon M,Guo K,Sudlow GP,Berezin MY,Edwards WB,Achilefu S,Akers WJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:In multiphoton microscopy, two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) spectra carry valuable information on morphological and functional biological features. For measuring these biomarkers, separation of different parts of the fluorescence spectrum into channels is typically achieved by the use of optical band...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Meyer BO,Stella MPJ,Holst B,Nielsen BS,Holmstrøm K,Andersen PE,Marti D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer simulation is used to facilitate the design of fiber-probe geometries that enable enhanced detection of optical signals arising from specific tissue depths. Obtaining understanding of the relationship between fiber-probe design and tissue interrogation is critical when developing strategies for optical detect...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang AM,Bender JE,Pfefer J,Utzinger U,Drezek RA

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:A miniature fiber optic spectrometer enclosed within a semipermeable (dialysis) membrane is proposed for in vivo interstitial sensing applications. The semipermeable membrane acts as a molecular filter, allowing only small molecules to pass through to the sampling volume. This filtering, in principle, should enable co...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Blazkiewicz P,Blazkiewicz K,Verhaege A,Anissimov YG,Roberts MS,Zvyagin AV

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete and continuous imaging of microvascular networks is crucial for a wide variety of biomedical applications. Photoacoustic tomography can provide high resolution microvascular imaging using hemoglobin within red blood cells (RBCs) as an endogenic contrast agent. However, intermittent RBC flow in capillaries res...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yao J,Maslov K,Hu S,Wang LV

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative spectroscopy has recently been extended from a contact-probe to wide-area spectroscopic imaging to enable mapping of optical properties across a wide area of tissue. We train quantitative spectroscopic imaging (QSI) to identify cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in 34 subjects un...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lau C,Mirkovic J,Yu CC,O'Donoghue GP,Galindo L,Dasari R,de las Morenas A,Feld M,Stier E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So far, the study of the optical clearing is almost always about healthy tissue. However, the ultimate goal is to detect diseases for clinical application. Optical clearing on diseased skins is explored. The effect is evaluated by applying a combined liquid paraffin and glycerol mixed solution on several kinds of dise...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shan H,Liang Y,Wang J,Li Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel Fourier-domain angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a /LCI) fiber probe designed for in vivo clinical application in gastrointestinal endoscopy. The a/LCI technique measures the depth-resolved angular scattering distribution to determine the size distribution and optical density of cell nucl...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhu Y,Terry NG,Woosley JT,Shaheen NJ,Wax A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion artifacts are the most significant sources of noise in the context of pediatric brain imaging designs and data analyses, especially in applications of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), in which it can completely affect the quality of the data acquired. Different methods have been developed to corre...

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：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different colors of visible light penetrate to varying depths in tissue due to the wavelength dependence of tissue optical absorption and elastic scattering. We exploit this to map the contour of the closest surface of a buried fluorescent object. This uses a novel algorithm based on the diffusion theory description o...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kim A,Roy M,Dadani FN,Wilson BC

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:Melanoma is a deadly cancer that physicians struggle to diagnose early because they lack the knowledge to differentiate benign from malignant lesions. Deep machine learning approaches to image analysis offer promise but lack the transparency to be widely adopted as stand-alone diagnostics. AIM:We aimed to...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gareau DS,Browning J,Correa Da Rosa J,Suarez-Farinas M,Lish S,Zong AM,Firester B,Vrattos C,Renert-Yuval Y,Gamboa M,Vallone MG,Barragán-Estudillo ZF,Tamez-Peña AL,Montoya J,Jesús-Silva MA,Carrera C,Malvehy J,Puig S,Mar

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expensive fabrication of current opto-microfluidic sensors is a barrier to the successful adoption of these devices in point-of-care testing. This work reports a simple inexpensive opto-microfluidic device incorporating a poly(dimethylsiloxane)-glass hybrid microfluidic chip modified with gold nanoparticles and a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pires NM,Dong T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Model-based light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) seemed a promising technique for in-vivo diagnosis of dysplasia in multiple organs. In the studies, the residual spectrum, the difference between the observed and modeled diffuse reflectance spectra, was attributed to single elastic light scattering from epithelial nucle...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lau C,Sćepanović O,Mirkovic J,McGee S,Yu CC,Fulghum S,Wallace M,Tunnell J,Bechtel K,Feld M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectroscopy, imaging, and therapy tissue phantoms must have the scattering and absorption properties that are characteristic of human tissues, and over the past few decades, many useful models have been created. In this work, an overview of their composition and properties is outlined, by separating matrix, s...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pogue BW,Patterson MS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac architecture is inherently three-dimensional, yet most characterizations rely on two-dimensional histological slices or dissociated cells, which remove the native geometry of the heart. We previously developed a method for labeling intact heart sections without dissociation and imaging large volumes while pres...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang H,Macgillivray C,Kwon HS,Lammerding J,Robbins J,Lee RT,So P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00