Quantitative photoacoustic imaging: correcting for heterogeneous light fluence distributions using diffuse optical tomography.

abstract：:Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. One-fifth of the world's oral cancer subjects are from India and other South Asian countries. The present Raman mapping study was carried out to understand biochemical variations in normal and malignant oral buccal mucosa. Data were acquired using WITec alpha 30...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Behl I,Kukreja L,Deshmukh A,Singh SP,Mamgain H,Hole AR,Krishna CM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a systematic approach to image, track, and quantify the movements of HIV viruses embedded in human cervical mucus. The underlying motivation for this study is that, in HIV-infected adults, women account for more than half of all new cases and most of these women acquire the infection through heterosexual c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Boukari F,Makrogiannis S,Nossal R,Boukari H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim is to study cerebral vascular functional connectivity during motor tasks and resting state using multichannel frequency-domain near-infrared spectrophotometry. Maps of 5.7 × 10.8 cm size displaying changes in cerebral oxyhemoglobin (O(2)Hb), deoxyhemoglobin (HHb), and total hemoglobin (tHb) concentrations were...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wolf U,Toronov V,Choi JH,Gupta R,Michalos A,Gratton E,Wolf M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic imaging has been used to probe the biochemical composition of human renal tumor tissue and adjacent normal tissue. Freshly resected renal tumor tissue from surgery was prepared as a thin cryosection and examined by FTIR spectroscopic imaging. Tissue types could be discri...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sablinskas V,Urboniene V,Ceponkus J,Laurinavicius A,Dasevicius D,Jankevicius F,Hendrixson V,Koch E,Steiner G

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:We present a quantitative analysis of dynamic diffuse optical measurements to obtain oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in volume oscillating compartments. We used a phasor representation of oscillatory hemodynamics at the heart rate and respiration frequency to separate the oscillations of tissue concentrations of oxyhe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kainerstorfer JM,Sassaroli A,Fantini S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence (WEFF) microscopy is a new development that allows the imaging of contact regions between biological cells and their substratum, as well as imaging of ultrathin films such as monomolecular Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. Mixed-lipid monolayer systems mimicking lung surfactant were...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hassanzadeh A,Mittler S

更新日期：2011-04-01 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

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：: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：:A main field in biomedical optics research is diffuse optical tomography, where intensity variations of the transmitted light traversing through tissue are detected. Mathematical models and reconstruction algorithms based on finite element methods and Monte Carlo simulations describe the light transport inside the tis...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Baum K,Hartmann R,Bischoff T,Oelerich JO,Finkensieper S,Heverhagen JT

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:The study presents comparison of near-infrared light propagation and near-infrared backscattered radiation power, as simulated with numerical modeling and measured live in a patient in clinical conditions with the use of the near-infrared transillumination-backscattering sounding (NIR-TBSS) technique. A unique chance ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Frydrychowski AF,Pluciński J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autofluorescence-based imaging techniques have become very important in the ophthalmological field. Being noninvasive and very sensitive, they are broadly used in clinical routines. Conventional autofluorescence intensity imaging is largely influenced by the strong fluorescence of lipofuscin, a fluorophore that can be...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sauer L,Andersen KM,Dysli C,Zinkernagel MS,Bernstein PS,Hammer M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpineLab is a software tool developed for reconstructing neuronal feature skeletons from three-dimensional single- or multi-photon image stacks. These images often suffer from limited resolution and a low signal-to-noise ratio, making the extraction of morphometric information difficult. To overcome this limitation, w...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jungblut D,Vlachos A,Schuldt G,Zahn N,Deller T,Wittum G

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simultaneous multispectral fluorescence imaging system incorporating multiplexed volume holographic grating (VHG) is developed to acquire multispectral images of an object in one shot. With the multiplexed VHG, the imaging system can provide the distribution and spectral characteristics of multiple fluorophores in t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lv Y,Zhang J,Zhang D,Cai W,Chen N,Luo J

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:The erratum concerns amendment of Section 2.5 of the published article. ...

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：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified measurement of macular pigment optical density (MPOD) is important because of the ocular health benefits that are attributed to these retinal carotenoids. Here, we describe a novel instrument designed for this purpose, based on heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP), which removes a number of difficulties...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bone RA,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal surgery is the standard treatment for patients with colorectal cancer. To overcome two of the main challenges, the circumferential resection margin and postoperative complications, real-time tissue assessment could be of great benefit during surgery. In this ex vivo study, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Baltussen EJM,Snaebjornsson P,de Koning SGB,Sterenborg HJCM,Aalbers AGJ,Kok N,Beets GL,Hendriks BHW,Kuhlmann KFD,Ruers TJM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative polarized light microscopy (qPLM) is a popular tool for the investigation of birefringent architectures in biological tissues. Collagen, the most abundant protein in mammals, is such a birefringent material. Interpretation of results of qPLM in terms of collagen network architecture and anisotropy is chal...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： van Turnhout MC,Kranenbarg S,van Leeuwen JL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micrometer scale resolution full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) is developed for imaging human graft corneas. Three-dimensional (3-D) images with ultrahigh resolution (respectively, 1 and 1.5 μm in the axial and transverse directions), comparable to traditional histological sections, are obtained allowing...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Latour G,Georges G,Lamoine LS,Deumié C,Conrath J,Hoffart L

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical quantification of large lesions imaged with diffuse optical tomography in reflection geometry is depth dependence due to the exponential decay of photon density waves. We introduce a depth-correction method that incorporates the target depth information provided by coregistered ultrasound. It is based on balan...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tavakoli B,Zhu Q

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I collagen is a major component of the extracellular matrix as well as many tissue engineered models. To understand changes in collagen related models over time, it is important to evaluate collagen dynamics with noninvasive techniques. Fluorescence spectroscopy provides a method to noninvasively measure endogeno...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kirkpatrick ND,Hoying JB,Botting SK,Weiss JA,Utzinger U

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) changes during functional brain activation and pathological conditions provides critical insight into brain metabolism. Of the different imaging modalities, two-photon laser scanning microscopy (TPLSM) is becoming an important tool for cellular-resolution meas...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Baraghis E,Devor A,Fang Q,Srinivasan VJ,Wu W,Lesage F,Ayata C,Kasischke KA,Boas DA,Sakadzić S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vectorial models of focused beams are important to a variety of fields including microscopy, lithography, optical physics, and biomedical imaging. This has led to many models being developed, which calculate how beams of various profiles are focused both in free space and in the presence of stratified media. The major...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Munro PRT

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advantages of using a telecentric imaging system in digital holographic microscopy (DHM) to study biological specimens are highlighted. To this end, the performances of nontelecentric DHM and telecentric DHM are evaluated from the quantitative phase imaging (QPI) point of view. The evaluated stability of the micro...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Doblas A,Sánchez-Ortiga E,Martínez-Corral M,Saavedra G,Garcia-Sucerquia J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00