Refractive index correction in optical coherence tomography images of multilayer tissues.

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：:Second-harmonic generation (SHG) imaging can help reveal interactions between collagen fibers and cancer cells. Quantitative analysis of SHG images of collagen fibers is challenged by the heterogeneity of collagen structures and low signal-to-noise ratio often found while imaging collagen in tissue. The role of collag...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bredfeldt JS,Liu Y,Pehlke CA,Conklin MW,Szulczewski JM,Inman DR,Keely PJ,Nowak RD,Mackie TR,Eliceiri KW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate optoelectronic properties of integrated structures comprising semiconductor light-emitting materials for optical probes of microscopic biological systems. Compound semiconductors are nearly ideal light emitters for probing cells and other microorganisms because of their spectral match to the transparenc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Gourley PL,Copeland RG,Cox JD,Hendricks JK,McDonald AE,Peterson SL,Sasaki DY

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified spatial-temporal speckle correlation technique for operational assessment of structural changes in muscle tissues after slaughtering is considered. Coefficient of biological activity as a quantitative indicator of structural changes of biochemical processes in biological tissues is proposed. The experimenta...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Maksymenko OP,Muravsky LI,Berezyuk MI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of fluorescence video imaging to guide surgery is rapidly expanding, and improvements in camera readout dynamic range have not matched display capabilities. Logarithmic intensity compression is a fast, single-step mapping technique that can map the useable dynamic range of high-bit fluorescence images onto the...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： DSouza AV,Lin H,Gunn J,Pogue BW

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse optical imaging is an effective technique for noninvasive functional brain imaging. However, the measurements respond to systemic hemodynamic fluctuations caused by the cardiac cycle, respiration, and blood pressure, which may obscure or overwhelm the desired stimulus-evoked response. Previous work on this pro...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhang Y,Brooks DH,Franceschini MA,Boas DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extension of optical monitoring of intact tissues from the visible and ultraviolet to the near-infrared (NIR) range (700-1300 nm) was first undertaken in 1977 for the purpose of monitoring the redox behavior of Cytochrome c oxidase (cyt c ox) in vivo. Soon it became evident that the much greater NIR translucency of sk...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jo Bsis-Vandervliet FF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser photocoagulation is an established treatment for a variety of retinal diseases. However, when using the same irradiation parameter, the size and strength of the lesions are unpredictable due to unknown inter- and intraindividual optical properties of the fundus layers. The aim of this work is to investigate a fe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Schlott K,Koinzer S,Baade A,Birngruber R,Roider J,Brinkmann R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three major analytical tools in imaging science are summarized and demonstrated relative to optical imaging in vivo. Standard resolution testing is optimal when infinite contrast is used and hardware evaluation is the goal. However, deep tissue imaging of absorption or fluorescent contrast agents in vivo often present...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pogue BW,Davis SC,Song X,Brooksby BA,Dehghani H,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In laser retinal photocoagulation, short (<20 ms) pulses have been found to reduce thermal damage to the inner retina, decrease treatment time, and minimize pain. However, the safe therapeutic window (defined as the ratio of power for producing a rupture to that of mild coagulation) decreases with shorter exposures. T...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sramek C,Paulus Y,Nomoto H,Huie P,Brown J,Palanker D

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Surfactant stabilized microbubbles are widely used clinical contrast agents for ultrasound imaging. In this work, the light propagation through a turbid medium in the presence of microbubbles has been investigated. Through a series of experiments, it has been found that the optical attenuation is increased when the mi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Leung TS,Honeysett JE,Stride E,Deng J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Imaging technologies working in the spatial frequency domain are becoming increasingly popular for generating wide-field maps of optical properties, enabling rapid analysis of tissue parameters. While acquisition methods have become faster and are now performing in real-time, processing methods remain slow, precluding...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Angelo J,Vargas CR,Lee BT,Bigio IJ,Gioux S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study is the quantitative analysis of the dose-time dependences of changes occurring in collagen of bladder and rectum after gamma-irradiation using optical methods [nonlinear microscopy in a second harmonic generation (SHG) detection regime and cross-polarization optical coherence tomography (CP ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kochueva M,Dudenkova V,Kuznetsov S,Varlamova A,Sergeeva E,Kiseleva E,Maslennikova A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reviews our research during the past several years on time-resolved (TR) near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT). Following an introduction of the measuring modes, two proposed schemes of image reconstruction in TR-DOT are described: one utilizes the full TR data, and the other, referred to as the mod...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhao H,Gao F,Tanikawa Y,Yamada Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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 the use of a Teflon-AF liquid core optical fiber (LCOF) geometry to enhance the collection of Raman scattering from the biochemical creatinine, dissolved in water and in urine. At short integration times, where shot noise is most troublesome, the enhanced signal leads to greater accuracy in estimating the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Qi D,Berger AJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expensive fabrication of current opto-microfluidic sensors is a barrier to the successful adoption of these devices in point-of-care testing. This work reports a simple inexpensive opto-microfluidic device incorporating a poly(dimethylsiloxane)-glass hybrid microfluidic chip modified with gold nanoparticles and a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pires NM,Dong T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraductal carcinoma is a precancerous lesion of the breast and the immediate precursor of invasive ductal carcinoma. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) was used to monitor the progression from intraductal carcinoma to invasive ductal carcinoma, which can improve early detection of precursor lesions and halt progression to...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wu Y,Fu F,Lian Y,Nie Y,Zhuo S,Wang C,Chen J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autofluorescence, the endogenous fluorescence present in cells and tissues, has historically been considered a nuisance in biomedical imaging. Many endogenous fluorophores, specifically, collagen, elastin, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), are found throughout the human body. In...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Deal J,Mayes S,Browning C,Hill S,Rider P,Boudreaux C,Rich TC,Leavesley SJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) was formerly known as CREST syndrome in reference to the associated clinical features: calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasias. The transforming growth factor beta has been identified as a major player in the pathogenic p...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Barolet D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common methods to characterize treatment efficacy based on morphological imaging may misrepresent outcomes and exclude effective therapies. Using a three-dimensional model of ovarian cancer, two functional treatment response metrics are used to evaluate photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacy: total volume, calculated fro...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Anbil S,Rizvi I,Celli JP,Alagic N,Pogue BW,Hasan T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present for the first time in vivo full three-dimensional (3-D) photoacoustic tomography (PAT) of the distal interphalangeal joint in a human subject. Both absorbed energy density and absorption coefficient images of the joint are quantitatively obtained using our finite-element-based photoacoustic image reconstruc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sun Y,Sobel E,Jiang H

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：: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：:High resolution is important for sensitive detection of subtle distortions of retinal morphology at an early stage of eye diseases. We demonstrate virtually structured detection (VSD) as a feasible method to achieve in vivo super-resolution ophthalmoscopy. A line-scanning strategy was employed to achieve a super-resol...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu C,Zhi Y,Wang B,Thapa D,Chen Y,Alam M,Lu Y,Yao X

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A classifier capable of ranking structural alterations of the cytoskeleton is developed. Images of cytoskeletal microtubules obtained from the epifluorescence microscopy of primary culture rat hepatocytes are analyzed. Morphological descriptors are extracted by contour and mass fractal analysis, direct methods, and sp...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Crosta GF,Urani C,Fumarola L

更新日期：2006-03-01 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