Review of diverse optical fibers used in biomedical research and clinical practice.

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides more parameters than pure morphology does. In a recent paper [A. Knuettel and M. Boehlau-Godau, J. Biomed. Opt. 5(1) 83-92 (2000)] we have shown that the refractive index (RI) can be evaluated in a localized manner in skin tissue under in vivo conditions. Based on a theory, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Knüttel A,Bonev S,Knaak W

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amblyopia ("lazy eye") is a major public health problem, caused by misalignment of the eyes (strabismus) or defocus. If detected early in childhood, there is an excellent response to therapy, yet most children are detected too late to be treated effectively. Commercially available vision screening devices that test fo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Irsch K,Gramatikov BI,Wu YK,Guyton DL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the use of Monte-Carlo-model-based approaches for the analysis of fluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectra measured ex vivo from breast tissues. These models are used to extract the absorption, scattering, and fluorescence properties of malignant and nonmalignant tissues and to diagnose breast cancer ba...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhu C,Palmer GM,Breslin TM,Harter J,Ramanujam N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of further development of unified Monte Carlo code for the needs of biomedical optics and biophotonics, we present an approach for modeling of coherent polarized light propagation in highly scattering turbid media, such as biological tissues. The temporal coherence of light, linear and circular po...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Doronin A,Macdonald C,Meglinski I

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Clinical imaging techniques for the anterior segment of the eye provide excellent anatomical information, but molecular imaging techniques are lacking. Molecular photoacoustic imaging is one option to address this need, but implementation requires use of contrast agents to distinguish molecular targets from background...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kubelick KP,Snider EJ,Ethier CR,Emelianov S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the precision and intraindividual variability of a clinical optical pachometer based on low-coherence reflectometry, which was used to measure the central thickness of a human cornea in vivo. The instrument, attached to a slit lamp, is a single mode fiber optic based Michelson interferometer wi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bo Hnke M,Masters BR,Wa Lti R,Ballif JJ,Chavanne P,Gianotti R,Salathe RP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a computer eye model that allows for aspheric surfaces and a three-dimensional computer-based ray-tracing technique to simulate optical properties of the human eye and visual perception under various eye defects. Eye surfaces, such as the cornea, eye lens, and retina, are modeled or approximated by a set o...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fink W,Micol D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive cardiovascular imaging could lead to the early detection and timely treatment of complex atherosclerotic lesions responsible for major cardiovascular events. Recent investigations have suggested that optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an ideal diagnostic tool due to the high resolution this technology a...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ghosn MG,Carbajal EF,Befrui NA,Tellez A,Granada JF,Larin KV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of polarized light emerging from turbid media in the exact backscattering direction are studied by modulating the incident light polarization state and isolating the synchronous signal with lock-in amplifier detection. The results are reported for polystyrene microsphere suspensions in distilled water, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Studinski RC,Vitkin IA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar glass waveguides with a specific number of modes were fabricated by Ag(+)-Na(+) exchange in Schott SG11 glass. The effective refractive indices were determined using m-line spectroscopy in both s- and p-polarization. By using the reversed Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, the index profiles were describe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hassanzadeh A,Nitsche M,Armstrong S,Nabavi N,Harrison R,Dixon SJ,Langbein U,Mittler S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared microscopic imaging has been utilized to analyze for the first time the spatial distribution of lipid structure in an ex vivo human organ culture skin wound healing model. Infrared images were collected at zero, two, four, and six days following wounding. Analysis of lipid infrared spectral properties reveale...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yu G,Stojadinovic O,Tomic-Canic M,Flach CR,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanophotothermolysis with long laser pulses for treatment of scattered cancer cells and their clusters is introduced with the main focus on real-time monitoring of temperature dynamics inside and around individual cancer cells labeled with carbon nanotubes. This technique utilizes advanced time- and spatially-resolved...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Biris AS,Boldor D,Palmer J,Monroe WT,Mahmood M,Dervishi E,Xu Y,Li Z,Galanzha EI,Zharov VP

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anastomotic complication is a major morbidity associated with esophagectomy. Gastric ischemia after conduit creation contributes to anastomotic complications, but a reliable method to assess oxygenation in the gastric conduit is lacking. We hypothesize that fiber optic spectroscopy can reliably assess conduit oxygenat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gareau DS,Truffer F,Perry KA,Pham TH,Enestvedt CK,Dolan JP,Hunter JG,Jacques SL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current techniques to assess lymph node metastases in cancer patients include lymphoscintigraphy after administration of a nonspecific radiocolloid in order to locate and resect lymph nodes for pathological examination of harbored cancer cells. Clinical trials involving intradermal or subcutaneous injection of antibod...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sampath L,Wang W,Sevick-Muraca EM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed an algorithm for multiplexed fluorescence tomographic imaging of at least four fluorophores concurrently in the red and near-infrared wavelength region by jointly using spectral and temporal data. We report the design of a fluorescence tomography instrument that acquires spectral and temporal dat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mu Y,Pera V,Niedre M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nikon C1 confocal laser scanning microscope is a relatively inexpensive and user-friendly instrument. We describe a straightforward method to convert the C1 for multiphoton microscopy utilizing direct coupling of a femtosecond near-infrared laser into the scan head and fiber optic transmission of emission light to...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mancuso JJ,Larson AM,Wensel TG,Saggau P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus inactivation in red blood cell concentrates (RBCC) is being studied in order to increase the safety of the blood supply. For this purpose we have been studying the silicon phthalocyanine (Pc 4), a photosensitizer activated with red light. Two approaches were used to achieve enhanced selectivity of Pc 4 for virus...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ben-Hur E,Zuk MM,Oetjen J,Chan WS,Lenny L,Horowitz B

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an alternative cancer treatment modality that offers localized treatment using a photosensitizer and light. However, tumor angiogenesis is a major concern following PDT-induced hypoxia as it promotes recurrence. Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets vascular endothelial growth...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bhuvaneswari R,Thong PS,Gan YY,Soo KC,Olivo M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy has been used to estimate the spatial proteoglycan (PG) and collagen contents in articular cartilage (AC). However, it is not clear whether the results of FTIR analyses are consistent between different species. Our aim was to clarify how three different FTIR PG param...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rieppo L,Närhi T,Helminen HJ,Jurvelin JS,Saarakkala S,Rieppo J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of molecular and functional photoacoustic (PA) images depends on the accuracy of the photoacoustic absorption spectroscopy. The PA signal is proportional to the product of the optical absorption coefficient and local light fluence; quantitative PA measurements of the optical absorption coefficient ther...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bauer AQ,Nothdurft RE,Erpelding TN,Wang LV,Culver JP

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirations (EUS-FNA) of pancreatic masses suffer from sample errors and low-negative predictive values. Fiber-optic spectroscopy in the visible to near-infrared wavelength spectrum can noninvasively extract physiological parameters from tissue and has the potential to guide th...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Stegehuis PL,Boogerd LS,Inderson A,Veenendaal RA,van Gerven P,Bonsing BA,Sven Mieog J,Amelink A,Veselic M,Morreau H,van de Velde CJ,Lelieveldt BP,Dijkstra J,Robinson DJ,Vahrmeijer AL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The development of accurate and clinically applicable tools to assess cancer risk is essential to define candidates to undergo screening for early-stage cancers at a curable stage or provide a novel method to monitor chemoprevention treatments. With the use of our recently developed optical technology--spatial-domain ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bista RK,Uttam S,Hartman DJ,Qiu W,Yu J,Zhang L,Brand RE,Liu Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially confined and precise time delivery of neuroactive molecules is an important issue in neurophysiology. In this work we developed a technique for delivering chemical stimuli to cultured neurons consisting in encapsulating the molecules of interest in liposomes. These vectors were then loaded in reservoirs cons...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pinato G,Raffaelli T,D'Este E,Tavano F,Cojoc D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based elasticity imaging can map soft tissue elasticity based on speckle-tracking of elastic wave propagation using highly sensitive phase measurements of OCT signals. Using a fixed elastic wave source and moving detection, current imaging sequences have difficulty in reconstructing ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hsieh BY,Song S,Nguyen TM,Yoon SJ,Shen TT,Wang RK,O'Donnell M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT), based on an all-reflective high-speed InGaAs spectrometer, operating in the 1050 nm wavelength region for retinal diagnostics, enables high-speed, volumetric imaging of retinal pathologies with greater penetration into choroidal tissue is compared to conventional...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Povazay B,Hermann B,Unterhuber A,Hofer B,Sattmann H,Zeiler F,Morgan JE,Falkner-Radler C,Glittenberg C,Blinder S,Drexler W

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational modeling of arterial mechanics continues to progress, even to the point of allowing the study of complex regions such as the aortic arch. Nevertheless, most prior studies assign homogeneous and isotropic material properties and constant wall thickness even when implementing patient-specific luminal geome...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Genovese K,Humphrey JD

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely known that not all of the treated cells survive after introduction of exogenous molecules via any physical method. Therefore, it is important to develop methods that would allow simultaneous evaluation of both molecular delivery efficiency and cell viability. This study presents Förster resonance energy t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ruzgys P,Tamošiūnas M,Lukinsone V,Šatkauskas S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00