Distinguishing autofluorescence of normal, benign, and cancerous breast tissues through wavelet domain correlation studies.

abstract：:In order to monitor dynamic physiological events in near-real time, a variety of photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) systems have been developed that can rapidly acquire data. Previously reported studies of dynamic PACT have employed conventional static methods to reconstruct a temporally ordered sequence of imag...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang K,Xia J,Li C,Wang LV,Anastasio MA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The damage mechanism for near-infrared radiation (IRR) induced cataract is unclear. Both a photochemical and a thermal mechanism were suggested. The current paper aims to elucidate a photochemical effect based on investigation of irradiance-exposure time reciprocity. Groups of 20 rats were unilaterally exposed to 96-W...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yu Z,Schulmeister K,Talebizadeh N,Kronschläger M,Söderberg P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an offset-sparsity decomposition method for the enhancement of a color microscopic image of a stained specimen. The method decomposes vectorized spectral images into offset terms and sparse terms. A sparse term represents an enhanced image, and an offset term represents a "shadow." The related optimization ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kopriva I,Hadžija MP,Hadžija M,Aralica G

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:In breast-preserving tumor surgery, the inspection of the excised tissue boundaries for tumor residue is too slow to provide feedback during the surgery. The discovery of positive margins requires a new surgery which is difficult and associated with low success. If the re-excision could be done immediately...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Beletkaia E,Dashtbozorg B,Jansen RG,Ruers TJM,Offerhaus HL

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Spasticity is a motor disorder frequently present in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). This study aimed to evaluate the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the spasticity of the masseter and anterior temporal muscle fibers in children with CP over three weeks of intermittent laser exposures. The bite force...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Santos MT,Diniz MB,Gouw-Soares SC,Lopes-Martins RA,Frigo L,Baeder FM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared spectroscopy is a novel imaging technique potentially sensitive to both brain hemodynamics (slow signal) and neuronal activity (fast optical signal, FOS). The big challenge of measuring FOS noninvasively lies in the presumably low signal-to-noise ratio. Thus, detectability of the FOS has been controversi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Medvedev AV,Kainerstorfer JM,Borisov SV,Gandjbakhche AH,Vanmeter J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an accurate optical differentiation technique between healthy and malaria-infected erythrocytes by quasi-simultaneous measurements of transmittance, reflectance, and scattering properties of unstained blood smears using a multispectral and multimode light-emitting diode microscope. We propose a technique for...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Merdasa A,Brydegaard M,Svanberg S,Zoueu JT

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical applications of terahertz (THz) radiation are appealing because THz radiation is nonionizing and has the demonstrated ability to detect intrinsic contrasts between cancerous and normal tissue. A linear polarization-sensitive detection technique for tumor margin delineation has already been demonstrated; how...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Martin JP,Joseph CS,Giles RH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of tissue hypoxia in the intensive care unit is essential for effective treatment. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) has been suggested to be the most sensitive indicator of tissue oxygenation at the mitochondrial level. However, no experimental evidence comparing the kinetics of changes...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shi H,Sun N,Mayevsky A,Zhang Z,Luo Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a quasinoncontact photoacoustic imaging method using a homodyne interferometer with a long coherence length laser. The generated photoacoustic signal is detected by a system that is locked at its maximum sensitivity through the use of balanced detection and zero-crossing triggering. The balanced detecto...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lu J,Gao Y,Ma Z,Zhou H,Wang RK,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We fabricate scaffolds with a fine linear grating (periodicity of 1 to 8 microm and height of 1 microm) on a glass substrate for controlling cardiomyocyte orientation. The fabrication is done by the solidification of a liquid photopolymerizable material using two laser beam interference. As the photopolymerizable mate...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fujita A,Fujita K,Nakamura O,Matsuda T,Kawata S

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Optical technologies may be applied to multiple facets of spinal surgery from diagnostics to intraoperative image guidance to therapeutics. In diagnostics, the current standard remains cross-sectional static imaging. Optical surface scanning tools may have an important role; however, significant work is required to cl...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Guha D,Yang VXD

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:A new optical parallel detection system of hybrid frequency and continuous-wave domains was developed to improve the data quality and accuracy in recovery of all breast optical properties. This new system was deployed in a previously existing system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided spectroscopy, and allows ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： El-Ghussein F,Mastanduno MA,Jiang S,Pogue BW,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT), one of the most sophisticated optical imaging techniques for observations through biological tissue, allows 3-D quantitative imaging of optical properties, which include functional and anatomical information. With DOT, it is expected to be possible to overcome the limita...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hoshi Y,Yamada Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Dental erosion starts with a chemical attack on dental tissue causing tooth demineralization, altering the tooth structure and making it more sensitive to mechanical erosion. Medical diagnosis of dental erosion is commonly achieved through a visual inspection by the dentist during dental checkups and is therefore high...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Abou Nader C,Pellen F,Loutfi H,Mansour R,Le Jeune B,Le Brun G,Abboud M

更新日期：2016-07-01 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

abstract：:Spatially resolved spectroscopy (SRS) allows the estimation of absolute tissue oxygen saturation, the ratio of oxygenated to total hemoglobin concentration, which may facilitate the comparison of results among patients. Eighty-two premature infants were included over two years. The cerebral tissue oxygenation index (c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sorensen LC,Leung TS,Greisen G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphogenetic relationship between early patterning and polarity formation is of fundamental interest and remains a controversial issue in preimplantation embryonic development. We use a label-free three-dimensional (3-D) imaging technique of full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) successfully for the fi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zheng JG,Huo T,Chen T,Wang C,Zhang N,Tian N,Zhao F,Lu D,Chen D,Ma W,Sun JL,Xue P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:Photothermal optical coherence tomography (PT-OCT) has the promise to offer structural images coregistered with chemical composition information, which can offer a significant impact in early detection of diseases such as atherosclerosis. AIM:We take the first step in understanding the relation between PT...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Salimi M,Villiger M,Tabatabaei N

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Studies of bioluminescence in living animals, such as cell-based biosensor applications, require measurement of light at different wavelengths, but accurate light measurement is impeded by absorption by tissues at wavelengths<600 nm. We present a novel approach to this problem--the use of a plastic window in the skin/...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Q,Acha V,Yow R,Schneider E,Sardar DK,Hornsby PJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel parallel-plate diffuse optical tomography (DOT) system for three-dimensional in vivo imaging of human breast tumor based on large optical data sets. Images of oxy-, deoxy-, and total hemoglobin concentration as well as blood oxygen saturation and tissue scattering were reconstructed. Tumor ma...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Choe R,Konecky SD,Corlu A,Lee K,Durduran T,Busch DR,Pathak S,Czerniecki BJ,Tchou J,Fraker DL,Demichele A,Chance B,Arridge SR,Schweiger M,Culver JP,Schnall MD,Putt ME,Rosen MA,Yodh AG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A side-viewing, 2.3-mm diameter, surface magnifying chromoendoscopy-optical coherence tomography (SMC-OCT) endoscope has been designed for simultaneous, nondestructive surface fluorescence visualization and cross-sectional imaging. We apply this endoscope to in vivo examination of the mouse colon. A 30,000 element fib...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wall RA,Barton JK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present experiments and analyses of confocal reflectance and two-photon microscopy studies of zebra finch skull samples. The thin and hollow structure of these birds' skulls is quite translucent, which can allow in vivo transcranial two-photon imaging for brain activation monitoring. However, the skull structure is...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Abi-Haidar D,Olivier T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00