abstract：:This paper presents a fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-instrumented prosthetic silicone liner that provides cushioning for the residual limb and can successfully measure interface pressures inside prosthetic sockets of lower-limb amputees in a simple and practical means of sensing. The liner is made of two silicone layers be...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Al-Fakih E,Arifin N,Pirouzi G,Mahamd Adikan FR,Shasmin HN,Abu Osman NA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present unsupervised clustering methods for automatic grouping of human red blood cells (RBCs) extracted from RBC quantitative phase images obtained by digital holographic microscopy into three RBC clusters with regular shapes, including biconcave, stomatocyte, and sphero-echinocyte. We select some good features re...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ahmadzadeh E,Jaferzadeh K,Lee J,Moon I

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reflectance volume holographic imaging (VHI) endoscope has been designed for simultaneous in vivo imaging of surface and subsurface tissue structures. Prior utilization of VHI systems has been limited to ex vivo tissue imaging. The VHI system presented in this work is designed for laparoscopic use. It consists of a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Howlett ID,Han W,Gordon M,Rice P,Barton JK,Kostuk RK

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an imaging-based method for noncontact spirometry. The method tracks the subtle respiratory-induced shoulder movement of a subject, builds a calibration curve, and determines the flow-volume spirometry curve and vital respiratory parameters, including forced expiratory volume in the first second, forced vit...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu C,Yang Y,Tsow F,Shao D,Tao N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work describes the fabrication and characterization of an optical fiber pH sensor using a sol–gel technique. The sensing head configuration is incorporated using a short section of no-core fiber, coated with tetraethyl orthosilicate and spliced at the end of a single mode fiber with a bulge. Different type...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bhardwaj V,Pathak AK,Singh VK

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：:Voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) are designed to monitor membrane potential by detecting fluorescence changes in response to neuronal or muscle electrical activity. However, fluorescence imaging is limited by depth of penetration and high scattering losses, which leads to low sensitivity in vivo systems for external dete...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhang HK,Yan P,Kang J,Abou DS,Le HN,Jha AK,Thorek DL,Kang JU,Rahmim A,Wong DF,Boctor EM,Loew LM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical properties of biological tissues under stretching are investigated using a full-field ellipsometry technique based on a differential Mueller matrix formalism. Traditional photoelastic-based formalism for extracting the linear birefringence (LB) properties of stretched anisotropic optical samples ignores th...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Chen HW,Huang CL,Lo YL,Chang YR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequency-domain diffuse optical spectroscopy (FD-DOS) utilizes intensity-modulated light to characterize optical scattering and absorption in thick tissue. Previous FD-DOS systems have been limited by large device footprints, complex electronics, high costs, and limited acquisition speeds, all of which complicate acc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Torjesen A,Istfan R,Roblyer D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a quasinoncontact photoacoustic imaging method using a homodyne interferometer with a long coherence length laser. The generated photoacoustic signal is detected by a system that is locked at its maximum sensitivity through the use of balanced detection and zero-crossing triggering. The balanced detecto...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lu J,Gao Y,Ma Z,Zhou H,Wang RK,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The area of in vivo sensing using optical fibers commonly uses materials such as silica and polymethyl methacrylate, both of which possess much higher modulus than human tissue. The mechanical mismatch between materials and living tissue has been seen to cause higher levels of glial encapsulation, scarring, and inflam...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： McMillan S,Rader C,Jorfi M,Pickrell G,Foster EJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirations (EUS-FNA) of pancreatic masses suffer from sample errors and low-negative predictive values. Fiber-optic spectroscopy in the visible to near-infrared wavelength spectrum can noninvasively extract physiological parameters from tissue and has the potential to guide th...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Stegehuis PL,Boogerd LS,Inderson A,Veenendaal RA,van Gerven P,Bonsing BA,Sven Mieog J,Amelink A,Veselic M,Morreau H,van de Velde CJ,Lelieveldt BP,Dijkstra J,Robinson DJ,Vahrmeijer AL

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of red blood cell (RBC) aggregation is of great interest because of its implications for human health. Altered RBC aggregation can lead to microcirculatory problems as in vascular pathologies, such as hypertension and diabetes, due to a decrease in the erythrocyte surface electric charge and an increase in t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Toderi MA,Castellini HV,Riquelme BD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is being increasingly applied to affective and social neuroscience research; however, the reliability of this method is still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the test–retest reliability of the fNIRS-based prefrontal response to emotional stimuli. Twenty-six participa...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Huang Y,Mao M,Zhang Z,Zhou H,Zhao Y,Duan L,Kreplin U,Xiao X,Zhu C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current diagnostic capabilities and limitations of fluorescence endomicroscopy in the cervix are assessed by qualitative and quantitative image analysis. Four cervical tissue types are investigated: normal columnar epithelium, normal and precancerous squamous epithelium, and stromal tissue. This study focuses on the p...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Schlosser C,Bodenschatz N,Lam S,Lee M,McAlpine JN,Miller DM,Van Niekerk DJ,Follen M,Guillaud M,MacAulay CE,Lane PM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study introduces a single-channel optical video stereomicroscope based on a transparent rotating deflector (TRD) for high-resolution and high-magnification stereomicroscopy. The existing stereomicroscopes have some limitations, such as limited resolution and magnification, fixed optical channel, and the necessity...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Radfar E,Park J,Jung B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active optics such as deformable mirrors can be used to control both focal depth and aberrations during scanning laser microscopy. If the focal depth can be changed dynamically during scanning, then imaging of oblique surfaces becomes possible. If aberrations can be corrected dynamically during scanning, an image can ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Archer-Zhang CC,Foster WB,Downey RD,Arrasmith CL,Dickensheets DL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All aberrations produced inside a biospecimen can degrade the quality of a three-dimensional image in two-photon excitation laser scanning microscopy. Previously, we developed a transmissive liquid-crystal device to correct spherical aberrations that improved the image quality of a fixed-mouse-brain slice treated with...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Tanabe A,Hibi T,Ipponjima S,Matsumoto K,Yokoyama M,Kurihara M,Hashimoto N,Nemoto T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the prime limiting factors of optical imaging in biological applications is the diffusion of light by tissue, which prevents focusing at depths greater than the optical diffusion limit (typically ?1??mm). To overcome this challenge, wavefront shaping techniques that use a spatial light modulator (SLM) to correc...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hemphill AS,Tay JW,Wang LV

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs when changes to the pelvic organ support structures cause descent or herniation of the pelvic organs into the vagina. Clinical evaluation of POP is a series of manual measurements known as the pelvic organ prolapse quantification (POP-Q) score. However, it fails to identify the mecha...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Parkinson LA,Gargett CE,Young N,Rosamilia A,Vashi AV,Werkmeister JA,Papageorgiou AW,Arkwright JW

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During emergency medical situations, where the patient has an obstructed airway or necessitates respiratory support, endotracheal intubation (ETI) is the medical technique of placing a tube into the trachea in order to facilitate adequate ventilation of the lungs. Complications during ETI, such as repeated attempts, f...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Nawn CD,Souhan BE,Carter R 3rd,Kneapler C,Fell N,Ye JY

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Collagen fiber orientation plays an important role in determining the structure and function of the articular cartilage. However, there is currently a lack of nondestructive means to image the fiber orientation from the cartilage surface. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the newly developed optical ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yao X,Wang Y,Ravanfar M,Pfeiffer FM,Duan D,Yao G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based elasticity imaging can map soft tissue elasticity based on speckle-tracking of elastic wave propagation using highly sensitive phase measurements of OCT signals. Using a fixed elastic wave source and moving detection, current imaging sequences have difficulty in reconstructing ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hsieh BY,Song S,Nguyen TM,Yoon SJ,Shen TT,Wang RK,O'Donnell M

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:We investigated the effect of thiazone, a widely used penetration enhancer, on in vitro porcine skin and muscle tissue by single-integrating sphere technique during optical clearing (OC) treatment. The results showed that thiazone induced an increase on the total transmittance of skin which led to a reduction in that ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Jin X,Deng Z,Wang J,Ye Q,Mei J,Zhou W,Zhang C,Tian J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the application of functional data analysis (fDA) on functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals for the development of an accurate and clinically practical assessment method of pain perception. We used the cold pressor test to induce different levels of pain in healthy subjects while the fNIRS ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Pourshoghi A,Zakeri I,Pourrezaei K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed an algorithm for multiplexed fluorescence tomographic imaging of at least four fluorophores concurrently in the red and near-infrared wavelength region by jointly using spectral and temporal data. We report the design of a fluorescence tomography instrument that acquires spectral and temporal dat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Mu Y,Pera V,Niedre M

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:We present a quantitative analysis of dynamic diffuse optical measurements to obtain oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in volume oscillating compartments. We used a phasor representation of oscillatory hemodynamics at the heart rate and respiration frequency to separate the oscillations of tissue concentrations of oxyhe...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kainerstorfer JM,Sassaroli A,Fantini S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a systematic approach to image, track, and quantify the movements of HIV viruses embedded in human cervical mucus. The underlying motivation for this study is that, in HIV-infected adults, women account for more than half of all new cases and most of these women acquire the infection through heterosexual c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Boukari F,Makrogiannis S,Nossal R,Boukari H

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT), one of the most sophisticated optical imaging techniques for observations through biological tissue, allows 3-D quantitative imaging of optical properties, which include functional and anatomical information. With DOT, it is expected to be possible to overcome the limita...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Hoshi Y,Yamada Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a laser scanning confocal microscope system, the refractive indices of articular cartilage (AC) with mechanical or biochemical degenerations were characterized to investigate whether potential correlations exist between refractive index (RI) and cartilage degeneration. The cartilage samples collected from th...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang K,Wu J,Day R,Kirk TB,Hu X

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：: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：:Optically derived tissue properties across a range of breast densities and the effects of breast compression on estimates of hemoglobin, oxygen metabolism, and water and lipid concentrations were obtained from a coregistered imaging system that integrates near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) with digital breast t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Michaelsen KE,Krishnaswamy V,Shi L,Vedantham S,Karellas A,Pogue BW,Paulsen KD,Poplack SP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report addresses the application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon for urea sensing. The former promises a high sensitivity, label-free detection, and real-time information by monitoring the refractive index change at the metal–dielectric interface. In the present report, a highly sensitive ure...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Paliwal A,Tomar M,Gupta V

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00