Measurement of the refractive index of whole blood and its components for a continuous spectral region.

abstract：:We present the application of a microfluidic optical cell stretcher to measure the elasticity of malaria-infected red blood cells. The measurements confirm an increase in host cell rigidity during the maturation of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The device combines the selectivity and sensitivity of single-cell e...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mauritz JM,Tiffert T,Seear R,Lautenschläger F,Esposito A,Lew VL,Guck J,Kaminski CF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphatic system is responsible for fluid homeostasis and immune cell trafficking and has been implicated in several diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and cancer metastasis. Despite its importance, the lack of suitable in vivo imaging techniques has hampered our understanding of the lymphatic system. This is,...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Forbrich A,Heinmiller A,Zemp RJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Invasive brain cancer cells cannot be visualized during surgery and so they are often not removed. These residual cancer cells give rise to recurrences.

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jermyn M,Desroches J,Mercier J,Tremblay MA,St-Arnaud K,Guiot MC,Petrecca K,Leblond F

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our long-term goal was to investigate the potential of incorporating redox imaging technique as a breast cancer (BC) diagnosis component to increase the positive predictive value of suspicious imaging finding and to reduce unnecessary biopsies and overdiagnosis. We previously found that precancer and cancer tissues in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Xu HN,Tchou J,Feng M,Zhao H,Li LZ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy--a valuable analytical tool in biological and medical field of research-allows probing molecular vibrations of samples without external labels or extensive preparation. We employ confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy to characterize renal tumors and normal tissue. Results show that Raman ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhuang Z,Li N,Guo Z,Zhu M,Xiong K,Chen S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to monitor dynamic physiological events in near-real time, a variety of photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) systems have been developed that can rapidly acquire data. Previously reported studies of dynamic PACT have employed conventional static methods to reconstruct a temporally ordered sequence of imag...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang K,Xia J,Li C,Wang LV,Anastasio MA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental erosion starts with a chemical attack on dental tissue causing tooth demineralization, altering the tooth structure and making it more sensitive to mechanical erosion. Medical diagnosis of dental erosion is commonly achieved through a visual inspection by the dentist during dental checkups and is therefore high...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Abou Nader C,Pellen F,Loutfi H,Mansour R,Le Jeune B,Le Brun G,Abboud M

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：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：: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：:It is challenging to image fluorescence objects with high spatial resolution in a highly scattering medium. Recently reported temperature-sensitive indocyanine green-loaded pluronic nanocapsules can potentially alleviate this problem. Here we demonstrate a frequency-domain temperature-modulated fluorescence tomography...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lin Y,Kwong TC,Bolisay L,Gulsen G

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Photoacoustic imaging has become an emerging tool for theranostic applications. Not only does it help in

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sivasubramanian K,Mathiyazhakan M,Wiraja C,Upputuri PK,Xu C,Pramanik M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been recently demonstrated to enhance apoptosis of glial cells induced by photodynamic therapy (PDT), but to protect glial cells from PDT-induced necrosis in the crayfish stretch receptor, a simple neuroglial preparation that consists of a single mechanosensory neuron enveloped by satellite glial...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kovaleva VD,Uzdensky AB

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:The potential of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is recently being recognized, especially in biological studies. However, FLIM does not directly measure the lifetimes, rather it records the fluorescence decay traces. The lifetimes and/or abundances have to be estimated from these traces dur...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Guo S,Silge A,Bae H,Tolstik T,Meyer T,Matziolis G,Schmitt M,Popp J,Bocklitz T

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Laser welding has the potential to become an effective method for wound closure and healing without sutures. Closure of skin incisions by laser welding with a combination of two near-infrared lasers (980 and 1064 nm), was performed for the first time in this study. One centimeter long, full-thickness incisions were ma...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hu L,Lu Z,Wang B,Cao J,Ma X,Tian Z,Gao Z,Qin L,Wu X,Liu Y,Wang L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemorrhagic hypovolemia and inotropic agent administration were used to manipulate cardiac output (CO) and oxygen delivery in rabbits to investigate the correlation between noninvasive frequency domain photon migration (FDPM) spectroscopy and invasive hemodynamic monitoring parameters. Frequency-domain photon migratio...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pham TH,Hornung R,Ha HP,Burney T,Serna D,Powell L,Brenner M,Tromberg BJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the design and theoretical analysis of a fiber-optic architecture for neural recording without contrast agents, which transduces neural electrical signals into a multiplexed optical readout. Our sensor design is inspired by electro-optic modulators, which modulate the refractive index of a waveguide by ap...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rodriques SG,Marblestone AH,Scholvin J,Dapello J,Sarkar D,Mankin M,Gao R,Wood L,Boyden ES

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Intracellular oxygen concentration is of primary importance in determining numerous physiological and pathological processes in biological systems. In this paper, we describe the application of the oxygen sensing indicator, ruthenium dibipyridine 4-(1"-pyrenyl)-2,2'-bipyridine chloride [Ru(bpy-pyr)(bpy)(2)], for molec...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ji J,Rosenzweig N,Jones I,Rosenzweig Z

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:Despite the importance of the cell membrane in regulation of drug activity, the influence of drug treatments on its physical properties is still poorly understood. The combination of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) with specific viscosity-sensitive fluorescent molecular rotors allows the qu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shimolina LE,Gulin AA,Paez-Perez M,López-Duarte I,Druzhkova IN,Lukina MM,Gubina MV,Brooks NJ,Zagaynova EV,Kuimova MK,Shirmanova MV

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laser ablation rate of subgingival dental calculus irradiated at a 400-nm-wavelength, 7.4-mJ pulse energy, and 85- and 20-deg irradiation angles is measured using laser triangulation. Three-dimensional images taken before and after irradiation create a removal map with 6-μm axial resolution. Fifteen human teeth wi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Schoenly JE,Seka WD,Rechmann P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcirculation lesion is a common symptom of chronic liver diseases in the form of vasculature deformation and circulation alteration. In acute to chronic liver diseases such as biliary atresia, microcirculation lesion can have an early onset. Detection of microcirculation lesion is meaningful for studying the progr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yan J,Kang Y,Xu S,Ong LL,Zhuo S,Bunte RM,Chen N,Asada HH,So PT,Wanless IR,Yu H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence imaging for detection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is based on the selective production and accumulation of fluorescing porphyrins-mainly, protoporphyrin IX-in cancerous tissues after the instillation of Hexvix®. Although the sensitivity of this procedure is very good, its specificity is somewhat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lovisa B,Jichlinski P,Weber BC,Aymon D,van den Bergh H,Wagnières G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of structure and composition are important in monitoring development of engineered vascular tissue both in vitro and in vivo. Destructive techniques are an obstacle for performing time-lapse analyses from a single sample or animal. This study demonstrates the ability of time-re...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fatakdawala H,Griffiths LG,Humphrey S,Marcu L

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Near-infrared confocal microendoscopy is a promising technique for deep in vivo imaging of tissues and can generate high-resolution cross-sectional images at the micron-scale. We demonstrate the use of a dual-axis confocal (DAC) near-infrared fluorescence microendoscope with a 5.5-mm outer diameter for obtaining clini...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Piyawattanametha W,Ra H,Qiu Z,Friedland S,Liu JT,Loewke K,Kino GS,Solgaard O,Wang TD,Mandella MJ,Contag CH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00