Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of tears: toward a diagnostic tool for neurodegenerative disease identification.

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：:We investigate a technology to create a high temperature heat source on the tip surface of the glass fiber proposed for medical surgery applications. Using 4 to 6 W power level semiconductor lasers at a wavelength of 980 nm, a laser coupled fiber tip was preprocessed to contain a certain amount of titanium oxide powde...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fujimoto T,Imai Y,Tei K,Ito S,Kanazawa H,Yamaguchi S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So far, the study of the optical clearing is almost always about healthy tissue. However, the ultimate goal is to detect diseases for clinical application. Optical clearing on diseased skins is explored. The effect is evaluated by applying a combined liquid paraffin and glycerol mixed solution on several kinds of dise...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shan H,Liang Y,Wang J,Li Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Blood pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an important physiological parameter that characterizes vascular stiffness. In this letter, we present electrocardiogram-synchronized, photoacoustic microscopy for noninvasive quantification of the PWV in the peripheral vessels of living mice. Interestingly, blood pulse wave-induced ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yeh C,Hu S,Maslov K,Wang LV

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo algorithm is applied to simulate the measurements of a sample with glass slides sandwiched between the double integrating sphere (DIS) setup. The effects caused by various parameters, such as the sample port of integrating sphere, thicknesses, and optical properties of the sample, on light losses and opt...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhu D,Lu W,Zeng S,Luo Q

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new imaging approach, structured light scatteroscopy (SLS), is demonstrated, which offers rapid wide-field imaging of microscopic morphological variations in bulk tissue surfaces. Elastic scattering of light offers exquisite sensitivity to ultrastructural changes at multiple size scales ranging from nanometers to mi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Krishnaswamy V,Elliott JT,McClatchy DM 3rd,Barth RJ Jr,Wells WA,Pogue BW,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents comprehensive and depth-resolved retinal microvasculature images within human retina achieved by a newly developed ultrahigh sensitive optical microangiography (UHS-OMAG) system. Due to its high flow sensitivity, UHS-OMAG is much more sensitive to tissue motion due to the involuntary movement of th...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： An L,Shen TT,Wang RK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A side-viewing, 2.3-mm diameter oblique incidence reflectometry endoscope has been designed to obtain optical property measurements of turbid samples. Light from a single-mode fiber is relayed obliquely onto the tissue with a gradient index lens-based distal optics assembly and the resulting diffuse reflectance profil...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wall RA,Barton JK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color Doppler optical coherence tomography (CDOCT) is a functional extension of optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can image flow in turbid media. We have developed a CDOCT system capable of imaging flow in real time. Doppler processing of the analog signal is accomplished in hardware in the time domain using a n...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Rollins AM,Yazdanfar S,Barton JK,Izatt JA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence microscopy is commonly used to investigate disease progression in biological tissues. Biological tissues, however, are strongly scattering in the visible wavelengths, limiting the application of fluorescence microscopy to superficial (<200µm) regions. Optical clearing, which involves incubation of the tis...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Moy AJ,Capulong BV,Saager RB,Wiersma MP,Lo PC,Durkin AJ,Choi B

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is an important in vivo imaging modality to visualize physiological and pathological processes in small animals. However, FMT reconstruction is ill-posed and ill-conditioned due to strong optical scattering in deep tissues, which results in poor spatial resolution. It is well kn...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Baikejiang R,Zhao Y,Fite BZ,Ferrara KW,Li C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Fourier transform spectrometer is used to simultaneously measure distance, dispersion and spectrum. It is shown that short coherence interferometry has the potential to measure the three-dimensional distribution of the spatial structure of a sample with a resolution determined by the coherence length of the light so...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hellmuth T,Welle M

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by photodynamic therapy (PDT) is recorded in vivo using a chemiluminescence (CL)-based gated optical system. A novel approach is developed to utilize the fluorescence (FL) of the CL probe as an internal fluorescence to calibrate the observed CL on pharmacokinetics of the probe in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wei Y,Xing D,Luo S,Yang L,Chen Q

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete form sensitivity functions are derived for a number of measurement types employed in autocorrelation-based ultrasound-modulated optical tomography. The Jacobian for a particular problem is constructed from the set of such sensitivity functions arising from a raster scan of a focused ultrasound field through a...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Powell S,Leung TS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative applications of near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent contrast agents can be aided by instrumentation capable of merging the view of surgical field with that of NIR fluorescence. We demonstrate augmented microscopy, an intraoperative imaging technique in which bright-field (real) and electronically processed ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Watson JR,Gainer CF,Martirosyan N,Skoch J,Lemole GM Jr,Anton R,Romanowski M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for lung cancer detection exploiting reflectance spectra measured in vivo during endoscopic imaging of the lung. The measured reflectance spectra were analyzed using a specially developed light-transport model to obtain quantitative information about cancer-related, physiological, and morphologic c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Fawzy YS,Petek M,Tercelj M,Zeng H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring a degranulation process in a live mast cell is a quite important issue in immunology and pharmacology. Because the size of a granule is normally much smaller than the resolution limit of an optical microscope system, there is no direct real-time live cell imaging technique for observing degranulation proces...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yang W,Lee S,Lee J,Bae Y,Kim D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：SIGNIFICANCE:Detailed biochemical and morphological imaging of the plaque burdened coronary arteries holds the promise of improved understanding of atherosclerosis plaque development, ultimately leading to better diagnostics and therapies. AIM:Development of a dual-modality intravascular catheter supporting swept-sour...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Chen X,Kim W,Serafino M,Tan Z,Jo J,Applegate B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics of optical tweezers (OT)-induced spontaneous aggregation and disaggregation of red blood cells (RBCs) were studied at the level of cell doublets to assess RBC interaction mechanics. Measurements were performed under in vitro conditions in plasma and fibrinogen and fibrinogen + albumin solutions. The RBC spont...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lee K,Kinnunen M,Khokhlova MD,Lyubin EV,Priezzhev AV,Meglinski I,Fedyanin AA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral resolved tissue imaging has a broad range of biomedical applications such as the minimally invasive diagnosis of diseases and the study of wound healing and tissue engineering processes. Two-photon microscopy imaging of endogenous fluorescence has been shown to be a powerful method for the quantification of t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Laiho LH,Pelet S,Hancewicz TM,Kaplan PD,So PT

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：:In this study we examine the implications of excitation saturation on fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments. In particular we present both experimental and theoretical evidence that fluorescein, one of the most frequently used fluorophores in FRAP, does not always comply with the basic assumpti...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Braeckmans K,Stubbe BG,Remaut K,Demeester J,De Smedt SC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial contamination of blood products is one of the most frequent infectious complications of transfusion. Since glucose levels in blood supplies decrease as bacteria proliferate, it should be possible to detect the presence of bacterial contamination by measuring the glucose concentrations in the blood components...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Suzuki Y,Maruo K,Zhang AW,Shimogaki K,Ogawa H,Hirayama F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reflection and transmission of coherent light from a biological system can yield information about its condition. In the case of blood exposed to the air, there is a change in the properties of the speckle patterns observed in the coagulation process. This can be studied by means of the rate of temporal variation,...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yokoi N,Aizu Y,Uozumi J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mueller polarimetry is applied to study the samples of nails: natural (or reference) and irradiated to 2 Gy ionizing radiation dose. We measure the whole Mueller matrices of the samples as a function of the scattering angle at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. We apply depolarization analysis to measured Mueller matrices by c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Savenkov S,Priezzhev A,Oberemok Y,Sholom S,Kolomiets I,Chunikhina K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellularity of the fibrous caps of coronary atheromas, manifested by the infiltration of macrophages (average size, 20 to 30 microm), is thought to weaken the structural integrity of the cap and predispose plaques to rupture. Therefore, an imaging technology capable of identifying macrophages within fibroatheroma caps...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tanaka A,Tearney GJ,Bouma BE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00