Mapping local optical axis in birefringent samples using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.

abstract：:Occlusal discoloration due to staining frequently occurs on the pits and fissures of teeth. Noncariogenic discoloration (non-CD) refers to the attachment of staining chromogens to sound surfaces, whereas cariogenic discoloration (CD) represents the discoloration of porous structures due to bacterial metabolites and mi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lee HS,Kim SK,Park SW,de Josselin de Jong E,Kwon HK,Jeong SH,Kim BI

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) provides a powerful tool for fast and noninvasive disease diagnosis. The ability to leverage DOS to accurately quantify tissue optical parameters hinges on the model used to estimate light-tissue interaction. We describe the accuracy of a lookup table (LUT)-based inverse model for me...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Nichols BS,Rajaram N,Tunnell JW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetration profiles of topically applied drugs and cosmetic products provide important information on their efficacy. The application of tape stripping in combination with UV/VIS spectroscopy is checked to determine the local position of topically applied substances inside the stratum corneum, the penetration profile...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Weigmann HJ,Jacobi U,Antoniou C,Tsikrikas GN,Wendel V,Rapp C,Gers-Barlag H,Sterry W,Lademann J

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Most reconstruction algorithms used in photoacoustic tomography do not account for the effects of acoustic attenuation on the recorded signals. For experimental measurements made in biological tissue, the frequency dependent acoustic attenuation causes high frequency components of the propagating photoacoustic waves t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Treeby BE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical nerve damage due to difficulty with identification remains a major risk for postsurgical complications and decreased quality of life. Fluorescence-guided surgery offers a means to specifically highlight tissues of interest such as nerves and a number of fluorescence-guided surgical systems are in clinical tri...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Korber J,Barth C,Gibbs S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a photonic approach for selective inactivation of viruses with a near-infrared subpicosecond laser. We demonstrate that this method can selectively inactivate viral particles ranging from nonpathogenic viruses such as the M13 bacteriophage and the tobacco mosaic virus to pathogenic viruses such as the human ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tsen KT,Tsen SW,Fu Q,Lindsay SM,Kibler K,Jacobs B,Wu TC,Karanam B,Jagu S,Roden RB,Hung CF,Sankey OF,Ramakrishna B,Kiang JG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies demonstrated that the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), an important second messenger, is involved in the mechanism of low-level laser irradiation (LLLI) treatment. However, most of these studies obtained the cAMP level in cell culture extracts or supernatant. In this study, the cAMP level in livi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Y,Zheng L,Yang H,Chen J,Wang Y,Li H,Xie S,Zeng H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work experimental tissue phantoms and numerical models were developed to estimate photon migration through the fetal head in utero. The tissue phantoms incorporate a fetal head within an amniotic fluid sac surrounded by a maternal tissue layer. A continuous wave, dual-wavelength (lambda = 760 and 850 nm) spect...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Vishnoi G,Hielscher AH,Ramanujam N,Chance B

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Collagen fibers can be imaged with second harmonic generation (SHG) and are associated with efficient tumor cell locomotion. Preferential locomotion along these fibers correlates with a more aggressively metastatic phenotype, and changes in SHG emission properties accompany changes in metastatic outcome. We therefore ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Burke RM,Madden KS,Perry SW,Zettel ML,Brown EB 3rd

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current research in the framework of an interdisciplinary project focuses on modelling the dynamics of the hemoglobin reoxygenation process in post-mortem human skin by reflectance spectrometry. The observations of reoxygenation of hemoglobin in livores after postmortem exposure to a cold environment relate the re...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Belenki L,Sterzik V,Schulz K,Bohnert M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel confocal microscope that has dual-axis architecture and biaxial postobjective scanning for the collection of fluorescence images from biological specimens. This design uses two low-numerical-aperture lenses to achieve high axial resolution and long working distance, and the scanning mirror located d...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang TD,Contag CH,Mandella MJ,Chan NY,Kino GS

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial infarction leads to structural remodeling of the myocardium, in particular to the loss of cardiomyocytes due to necrosis and an increase in collagen with scar formation. Stem cell regenerative treatments have been shown to alter this remodeling process, resulting in improved cardiac function. As healthy myo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wood MF,Ghosh N,Wallenburg MA,Li SH,Weisel RD,Wilson BC,Li RK,Vitkin IA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Investigations of foveal aberrations assume circular pupils. However, the pupil becomes increasingly elliptical with increase in visual field eccentricity. We address this and other issues concerning peripheral aberration specification. METHODS:One approach uses an elliptical pupil similar to the actual pupil ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Charman WN,Mathur A,Scott DH,Hartwig A,Atchison DA

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Ex vivo human skin has been used extensively for cosmeceutical and drug delivery studies, transplantable skin allografts, or skin flaps. However, it has a half-life of a few days due to ischemic necrosis. Traditional methods of assessing viability can be time-consuming and provide limited metabolic information. Using ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sanchez WY,Prow TW,Sanchez WH,Grice JE,Roberts MS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have applied wide-field digital interferometry (WFDI) to examine the morphology and dynamics of live red blood cells (RBCs) from individuals who suffer from sickle cell anemia (SCA), a genetic disorder that affects the structure and mechanical properties of RBCs. WFDI is a noncontact, label-free optical microscopy ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shaked NT,Satterwhite LL,Telen MJ,Truskey GA,Wax A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is applied to analyze human fingernails using nanosecond laser pulses. Measurements on 45 nail samples are carried out and 14 key species are identified. The elements detected with the present system are: Al, C, Ca, Fe, H, K, Mg, N, Na, O, Si, Sr, Ti as well as CN molecule. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hosseinimakarem Z,Tavassoli SH

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:By using a novel temporal characterization technique, we determined that a threshold average laser power of 160 mW is required to drill through a 0.75-mm-thick cortical bone for a Nd:YVO(4) mode-locked laser oscillator with a peak intensity of 1.3 GWcm(2). The ablation mechanism is identified as average-power induced ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lee YM,Tu RY,Chiang AC,Huang YC

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Parametric and nonparametric data processing schemes for analyzing translating laser speckle data used to investigate the mechanical behavior of biological tissues are examined. Cross-correlation, minimum mean square estimator, maximum likelihood, and maximum entropy approaches are discussed and compared on speckle da...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Duncan DD,Kirkpatrick SJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We successfully acquire the in vivo Raman spectrum of melanin from human skin using a rapid near-infrared (NIR) Raman spectrometer. The Raman signals of in vivo cutaneous melanin are similar to those observed from natural and synthetic eumelanins. The melanin Raman spectrum is dominated by two intense and broad peaks ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Z,Lui H,Chen XK,Alajlan A,McLean DI,Zeng H

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：: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：:Clustering analysis (CA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to dynamic Cerenkov luminescence images (dCLI). In order to investigate the performances of the proposed approaches, two distinct dynamic data sets obtained by injecting mice with (32)P-ATP and (18)F-FDG were acquired using the IVIS 200 optic...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Spinelli AE,Boschi F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerenkov light is created in clinical applications involving high-energy radiation such as in radiation therapy. There is considerable interest in using Cerenkov light as a means to perform in vivo dosimetry during radiation therapy; however, a better understanding of the light-to-dose relationship is needed. One such...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Brost E,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate dynamic in vivo imaging using a low-cost portable pulsed laser diode (PLD)-based photoacoustic tomography system. The system takes advantage of an 803-nm PLD having high-repetition rate ∼7000  Hz combined with a fast-scanning single-element ultrasound transducer leading to a 5 s cross-sectional imaging....

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Upputuri PK,Pramanik M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of cartilage is predictive of its in vivo performance. Therefore, the ability to assess its primary macromolecular components, proteoglycan (PG) and collagen, is of great importance. In the current study, we hypothesized that PG content and distribution in tissue engineered cartilage could be determine...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kim M,Bi X,Horton WE,Spencer RG,Camacho NP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00