Optical coherence tomography in gynecology: a narrative review.

abstract：:This paper presents an effective two-step scheme for automatic object detection in computed radiography (CR) images. First, various structure elements of the morphological filters, designed by incorporating available morphological features of the objects of interest including their sizes and rough shape descriptions, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Xuan J,Adali T,Wang Y,Siegel E

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' aim is to assess and quantitatively measure brain hemodynamic and morphological variations during closed-head injury (CHI) in mice using orthogonal diffuse near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (o-DRS). CHI is a type of injury to the head that does not penetrate the skull. Usually, it is caused by mechan...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Abookasis D,Shochat A,Mathews MS

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Ambulatory diffuse optical tomography (aDOT) is based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and enables three-dimensional imaging of regional hemodynamics and oxygen consumption during a person’s normal activities. Although NIRS has been previously used for muscle assessment, it has been notably limited in terms of the...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hu G,Zhang Q,Ivkovic V,Strangman GE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an experimental study of the possibilities of monitoring erbium yttrium aluminum garnet laser-mediated ablation of human epidermis with the use of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and spectral polarization techniques are presented. The attenuated total reflection (ATR) method was used for ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sviridov AP,Zimnyakov DA,Sinichkin YP,Butvina LN,Omelchenko AJ,Shakh GS,Bagratashvili VN

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete and continuous imaging of microvascular networks is crucial for a wide variety of biomedical applications. Photoacoustic tomography can provide high resolution microvascular imaging using hemoglobin within red blood cells (RBCs) as an endogenic contrast agent. However, intermittent RBC flow in capillaries res...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yao J,Maslov K,Hu S,Wang LV

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For clinical optoacoustic imaging, linear probes are preferably used because they allow versatile imaging of the human body with real-time display and free-hand probe guidance. The two-dimensional (2-D) optoacoustic image obtained with this type of probe is generally interpreted as a 2-D cross-section of the tissue ju...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Preisser S,Bush NL,Gertsch-Grover AG,Peeters S,Bailey AE,Bamber JC,Frenz M,Jaeger M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probing tissue with near-infrared radiation (NIR) simultaneously produces remitted fluorescence and Raman scattering (IE) plus Rayleigh∕Mie light scattering (EE) that noninvasively give chemical and physical information about the materials and objects within. We model tissue as a three-phase system: plasma and red blo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Chaiken J,Deng B,Goodisman J,Shaheen G,Bussjager RJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immersion optical clearing makes it possible to use transmission polarized-light microscopy for characterization of thick (200 to 2000  μm) layers of biological tissues. We discuss polarization properties of thick samples in the context of the problem of characterization of collagen fiber alignment in connective tissu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yakovlev DD,Shvachkina ME,Sherman MM,Spivak AV,Pravdin AB,Yakovlev DA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy on single, living epithelial cells captured in a laser trap is shown to have diagnostic power over colorectal cancer. This new single-cell technology comprises three major components: primary culture processing of human tissue samples to produce single-cell suspensions, Raman detection on singly tra...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zheng F,Qin Y,Chen K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junction-mediated intercellular communication influences a variety of cellular activities. In tendons, gap junctions modulate collagen production, are involved in strain-induced cell death, and are involved in the response to mechanical stimulation. The aim of the present study was to investigate gap junction-medi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kuzma-Kuzniarska M,Yapp C,Pearson-Jones TW,Jones AK,Hulley PA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) combines confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT) to improve imaging depth and contrast, enabling cellular imaging in human tissues. We aim to investigate OCM for ex vivo imaging of upper and lower gastrointestinal tract tissues, to establish correlations between OC...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Aguirre AD,Chen Y,Bryan B,Mashimo H,Huang Q,Connolly JL,Fujimoto JG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emission and excitation spectra of collagen were recorded in the ultraviolet and visible regions. The existence of several types of chromophores absorbing and emitting throughout these spectral regions was observed. It was shown that laser irradiation at 355 and 532 nm caused collagen fluorescence photobleaching by 30...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yova D,Hovhannisyan V,Theodossiou T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectroscopy of analyte-specific molecular vibrations in tissue thin sections has opened up a path toward histopathology without the need for tissue staining. However, biomedical vibrational imaging has not yet advanced from academic research to routine histopathology due to long acquisition times for the microsco...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kröger N,Egl A,Engel M,Gretz N,Haase K,Herpich I,Kränzlin B,Neudecker S,Pucci A,Schönhals A,Vogt J,Petrich W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectroscopy has shown potential as a real-time, in vivo, diagnostic tool for identifying neoplasia during endoscopy. We present the development of a diagnostic algorithm to classify elastic-scattering spectroscopy (ESS) spectra as either neoplastic or non-neoplastic. The algorithm is based on pattern recognit...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rodriguez-Diaz E,Castanon DA,Singh SK,Bigio IJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image resolution and signal level in fluorescence microscopy through inhomogeneous turbid media consisting of scatterers of multiple sizes under single- (1p), two- (2p), and three-photon (3p) excitation have been investigated based on a modified Monte Carlo model. The effects of the size distribution and the concentra...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Deng X,Gan X,Gu M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recaldent is a product of casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP). The remineralizing potential of CPP-ACP per se, or when combined with 0.22% Fl gel on artificially demineralized enamel using laser florescence, is investigated. Mesial surfaces of 15 sound human molars are tested using a He-Cd lase...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Elsayad I,Sakr A,Badr Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrillar collagen network in tumor and normal tissues is different due to remodeling of the extracellular matrix during the malignant process. Collagen type I fibers have the crystalline and noncentrosymmetric properties required for generating the second-harmonic signal. The content and structure of collagen wer...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hompland T,Erikson A,Lindgren M,Lindmo T,de Lange Davies C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoacoustic imaging system that incorporates a commercial ultrasonic camera for real-time imaging of two-dimensional (2-D) projection planes in tissue at video rate (30 Hz) is presented. The system uses a Q-switched frequency-doubled Nd:YAG pulsed laser for photoacoustic generation. The ultrasonic camera consists ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Balogun O,Regez B,Zhang HF,Krishnaswamy S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, which has been demonstrated as a noninvasive diagnostic technique, relies on quantitative models for extracting optical property values from turbid media, such as biological tissues. We review and compare reflectance models that have been published, and we test similar models over a m...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Calabro KW,Bigio IJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsurface fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) has promising potential for noninvasive characterization of molecular and cellular activities in small animals by tomographic means in reflectance geometry. In this work, subsurface FMT is employed to monitor the therapeutic response of cisplatin in tumor-bearing mice...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu F,Cao X,He W,Song J,Dai Z,Zhang B,Luo J,Li Y,Bai J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLi) could potentially improve exogenous near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging, because it offers the capability of discriminating a signal of interest from background, provides real-time monitoring of a chemical environment, and permits the use of several different fluorescent dyes h...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gioux S,Lomnes SJ,Choi HS,Frangioni JV

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic peptide, cyclopentapeptide cyclo(lys-Arg-Gly-Asp-phe) (c(KRGDf)), which is known to target alpha(v)beta3 integrin, is dual-labeled with a radiotracer, (111)indium, for gamma scintigraphy as well as with a near-infrared dye, IRDye800, for continuous-wave (cw) imaging of alpha(v)beta3 positive human M21 melan...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Houston JP,Ke S,Wang W,Li C,Sevick-Muraca EM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally implement label-free phase microscopy using wide-field digital interferometry (WFDI) techniques to retrieve quantitative volumetric data of articular chondrocyte dynamics. Using the scanless interferometric system, we visualize chondrocyte swelling and bursting induced by hypo-osmotic pressure. Recon...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shaked NT,Finan JD,Guilak F,Wax A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-speed (video-rate) fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) through a flexible endoscope is reported based on gated optical image intensifier technology. The optimization and potential application of FLIM to tissue autofluorescence for clinical applications are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Munro I,McGinty J,Galletly N,Requejo-Isidro J,Lanigan PM,Elson DS,Dunsby C,Neil MA,Lever MJ,Stamp GW,French PM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion of two model drugs-benzyl nicotinate and ibuprofen-and the plasma macromolecule albumin across atherosclerotic rabbit aorta was studied ex vivo by attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) imaging. Solutions of these molecules were applied to the endothelial surface of histological se...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Palombo F,Danoux CB,Weinberg PD,Kazarian SG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atrial pacemaker complex is responsible for the initiation and early propagation of cardiac impulses. Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a nondestructive imaging modality with spatial resolutions of ∼1 to 15 μm, can be used to identify unique fiber orientation patterns in this region of the heart. Functionally ch...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ambrosi CM,Fedorov VV,Schuessler RB,Rollins AM,Efimov IR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitatively investigated the measurement sensitivity of spatially resolved spectroscopy (SRS) across six tissue models: cerebral tissue, a small animal brain, the forehead of a fetus, an adult brain, forearm muscle, and thigh muscle. The optical path length in the voxel of the model was analyzed using Monte Carl...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Niwayama M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion artifacts are the most significant sources of noise in the context of pediatric brain imaging designs and data analyses, especially in applications of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), in which it can completely affect the quality of the data acquired. Different methods have been developed to corre...

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：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical light is important for helping the surgeon easily identify specific tissues during an operation. We propose a spectral reflectance comparison model to optimize the light-emitting diode light spectrum in the operating room. An entropy evaluation method, meant specifically for surgical situations, was developed...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shen J,Wang H,Wu Y,Li A,Chen C,Zheng Z

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00