Monte Carlo modeling of light propagation in the human head for applications in sinus imaging.

abstract：:We experimentally study potential mechanisms by which the enhancement factor in low-coherence enhanced backscattering (LEBS) can probe subtle variations in radial intensity distribution in weakly scattering media. We use enhanced backscattering of light by implementing either (1) low spatial coherence illumination or ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu J,Xu Z,Song Q,Konger RL,Kim YL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy (RS) has demonstrated great potential for in vivo cancer screening; however, the biophysical changes that occur for specific diagnoses remain unclear. We recently developed an inverse biophysical skin cancer model to address this issue. Here, we presented the first demonstration of in vivo melanoma ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Feng X,Moy AJ,Nguyen HTM,Zhang Y,Zhang J,Fox MC,Sebastian KR,Reichenberg JS,Markey MK,Tunnell JW

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has the capacity to record second-harmonic generation (SHG) and endogenous two-photon excitation fluorescence (2PEF) signals emitted from biological tissues. The development of fiber-based miniaturized endomicroscopes delivering pulses in the femtosecond range will allow the transfer of MP...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Garofalakis A,Kruglik SG,Mansuryan T,Gillibert A,Thiberville L,Louradour F,Vever-Bizet C,Bourg-Heckly G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the concept of deliberate placement of absorbers to alter the average path of photons through tissue for a biomedical optical device. By changing the reflectivity of a needle that separates a source and detector, the average photon path through a turbid medium can be changed. Totally reflective needles ha...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Simonson P,D'Amico E,Gratton E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse-modulated second harmonic imaging microscopes (PM-SHIMs) exhibit improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over conventional SHIMs on sensitive imaging and quantification of weak collagen signals inside tissues. We quantify the spatial distribution of sparse collagen inside a xenograft model of human acute myeloid le...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Raja AM,Xu S,Sun W,Zhou J,Tai DC,Chen CS,Rajapakse JC,So PT,Yu H

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Surgical resection of pancreatic cancer represents the only chance of cure and long-term survival in this common disease. Unfortunately, determination of a cancer-free margin at surgery is based on one or two tiny frozen section biopsies, which is far from ideal. Not surprisingly, cancer is usually left behind and is ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cromey B,McDaniel A,Matsunaga T,Vagner J,Kieu KQ,Banerjee B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy is prone to contamination by motion artifacts (MAs). Motion correction algorithms have previously been proposed and their respective performance compared for evoked rain activation studies. We study instead the effect of MAs on "oscillation" data which is at the basis of functiona...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Selb J,Yücel MA,Phillip D,Schytz HW,Iversen HK,Vangel M,Ashina M,Boas DA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Real-time medical imaging systems such as reflectance confocal microscopes and optical coherence microscopes are being tested in multiple-patient and multiple-center clinical trials. The modulation transfer function (MTF) of these systems at any given time influences the image information content and can affect the in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang Z,Glazowski CE,Zavislan JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

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：:We report a new two-channel fluorescence microscopy technique for surface-generated fluorescence. The realized fluorescence microscope allows high resolution imaging of aqueous samples. The core element of the instrument is a parabolic mirror objective that is used to collect the fluorescence at large surface angles a...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Verdes D,Ruckstuhl T,Seeger S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technology for high-resolution, noncontact imaging of transparent and scattering media. Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is a functional extension of OCT that can image birefringent properties of a biological sample. PS-OCT was used to measu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Götzinger E,Pircher M,Sticker M,Fercher AF,Hitzenberger CK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-beam spectral domain optical coherence tomography system (OCT) whose center wavelength is 840 nm was developed. The three beams focus on fundus 3.1 mm apart from each other and are detected by a single line sensor. The distance between the beams is fixed and the beams scan a total area of 10×10  mm² while keep...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Suehira N,Ooto S,Hangai M,Matsumoto K,Tomatsu N,Yuasa T,Yamada K,Yoshimura N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 25 years, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has advanced to be one of the most innovative and most successful translational optical imaging techniques, achieving substantial economic impact as well as clinical acceptance. This is largely owing to the resolution improvements by a factor of 10 to the submic...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Drexler W,Liu M,Kumar A,Kamali T,Unterhuber A,Leitgeb RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A confocal imaging and image processing scheme is introduced to visualize and evaluate the spatial distribution of spectral information in tissue. The image data are recorded using a confocal laser-scanning microscope equipped with a detection unit that provides high spectral resolution. The processing scheme is based...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Maeder U,Marquardt K,Beer S,Bergmann T,Schmidts T,Heverhagen JT,Zink K,Runkel F,Fiebich M

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Muscle blood flow (MBF) and muscle oxygen saturation (SmO(2)) were measured at eight locations (four proximal, four distal) over a 4 x 8 cm(2) area of the vastus lateralis at rest and immediately after isometric, maximal quadriceps contraction using multichannel, frequency-domain, near-infrared spectroscopy. A venous ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Quaresima V,Ferrari M,Franceschini MA,Hoimes ML,Fantini S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarized Raman spectroscopy allows measurement of molecular orientation and composition and is widely used in the study of polymer systems. Here, we extend the technique to the extraction of quantitative orientation information from bone tissue, which is optically thick and highly turbid. We discuss multiple scatteri...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Raghavan M,Sahar ND,Wilson RH,Mycek MA,Pleshko N,Kohn DH,Morris MD

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：:The feasibility of spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) for breast surgical margin assessment was evaluated in tissue-simulating phantoms and in fully intact lumpectomy specimens at the time of surgery. Phantom data was evaluated according to contrast-detail resolution, quantitative accuracy and model-data goodness...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Laughney AM,Krishnaswamy V,Rice TB,Cuccia DJ,Barth RJ,Tromberg BJ,Paulsen KD,Pogue BW,Wells WA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Ultraviolet radiation from solar exposure is a key extrinsic factor responsible for premature skin aging (i.e., photo-aging). Recent advances using in vivo multiphoton tomography (MPT) demonstrate the efficacy of this approach to assess intrinsic and extrinsic skin aging as an alternative to existing invasive techniqu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sanchez WY,Obispo C,Ryan E,Grice JE,Roberts MS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-vivo imaging of the vascular system can provide novel insight into the dynamics of vasoconstriction and vasodilation. Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) is an optical, noncontact imaging technique based on interferometry of short-coherent near-infrared light with axial resolution of less than 10 m...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Meissner S,Müller G,Walther J,Morawietz H,Koch E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of a fiber optic biosensor (FOB) to the real-time investigation of the interaction kinetics between FITC-conjugated monoclonal sheep anti-human C-reactive protein (CRP) antibody and CRP isoforms on the surface of optical fiber is described. Recently, both the native pentameric CRP (pCRP), an acute phase pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Chou C,Hsu HY,Wu HT,Tseng KY,Chiou A,Yu CJ,Lee ZY,Chan TS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers usually occurring in people above the age of 50 years. In the United States, colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer. The American Cancer Society has estimated 96,830 new cases of colon cancer and 40,000 new cases of rectal cancer in 2014 in the Unit...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Salman A,Sebbag G,Argov S,Mordechai S,Sahu RK

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：: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：: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