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：:According to the valence asymmetry hypothesis, the left/right asymmetry of prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity is correlated with specific emotional responses to mental stress and personality traits. Here, we evaluated the relation between emotional state and asymmetry in PFC activity at rest by using near-infrared spect...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Ishikawa W,Sato M,Fukuda Y,Matsumoto T,Takemura N,Sakatani K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A swept source (SS)-based circular-state (CS) polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) constructed entirely with polarization-maintaining fiber optics components is proposed with the experimental verification. By means of the proposed calibration scheme, bulk quarter-wave plates can be replaced by ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lin H,Kao MC,Lai CM,Huang JC,Kuo WC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), acquired simultaneously with electroencephalography (EEG), allows the investigation of hemodynamic brain responses to epileptic activity. Because the presumed epileptogenic focus is patient-specific, an appropriate source/detector (SD) montage has to be reconfigured for e...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Machado A,Marcotte O,Lina JM,Kobayashi E,Grova C

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：: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：: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：:A wide variety of ocular diseases are associated with abnormalities in ocular circulation. As such, there is considerable interest in techniques for quantifying retinal blood flow, among which Doppler optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be the most promising. We present an approach to measure retinal blood flow in ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Werkmeister RM,Vietauer M,Knopf C,Fürnsinn C,Leitgeb RA,Reitsamer H,Gröschl M,Garhöfer G,Vilser W,Schmetterer L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to determine the diagnostic capability of a multimodal spectral diagnosis (SD) for in vivo noninvasive disease diagnosis of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers. We acquired reflectance, fluorescence, and Raman spectra from 137 lesions in 76 patients using custom-built optical fiber-based c...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Lim L,Nichols B,Migden MR,Rajaram N,Reichenberg JS,Markey MK,Ross MI,Tunnell JW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of tissue hypoxia in the intensive care unit is essential for effective treatment. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) has been suggested to be the most sensitive indicator of tissue oxygenation at the mitochondrial level. However, no experimental evidence comparing the kinetics of changes...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Shi H,Sun N,Mayevsky A,Zhang Z,Luo Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Nanobioconjugates have been synthesized using cadmium selenide quantum dots (QDs), europium complexes (EuCs), and biotin. In those conjugates, long-lived photoluminescence (PL) is provided by the europium complexes, which efficiently transfer energy via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to the QDs in close spat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Cywinski PJ,Hammann T,Hühn D,Parak WJ,Hildebrandt N,Löhmannsröben HG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (ORPAM) is important for various biomedical applications, such as the study of cellular structures, microcirculation systems, and tumor angiogenesis. However, the lateral resolution of a conventional ORPAM is limited by optical diffraction. In this work, we report a simulati...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Upputuri PK,Wen ZB,Wu Z,Pramanik M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 25 years, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has advanced to be one of the most innovative and most successful translational optical imaging techniques, achieving substantial economic impact as well as clinical acceptance. This is largely owing to the resolution improvements by a factor of 10 to the submic...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Drexler W,Liu M,Kumar A,Kamali T,Unterhuber A,Leitgeb RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the several difficulties associated with histology, including difficulty in continuous monitoring, this study aimed to investigate the feasibility of optical imaging modalities—cross-polarization color (CPC) imaging, erythema index (EI) imaging, and laser speckle contrast (LSC) imaging—for continuous evaluation ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Son T,Yoon HJ,Lee S,Jang WS,Jung B,Kim WU

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evolving area of biomedical research is related to the creation of implantable units that provide various possibilities for imaging, measurement, and the monitoring of a wide range of diseases and intrabody phototherapy. The units can be autonomic or built-in in some kind of clinically applicable implants. Because ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Sheinman V,Rudnitsky A,Toichuev R,Eshiev A,Abdullaeva S,Egemkulov T,Zalevsky Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The measurement of changes in blood volume in tissue is important for monitoring the effects of a wide range of therapeutic interventions, from radiation therapy to skin-flap transplants. Many systems available for purchase are either expensive or difficult to use, limiting their utility in the clinical setting. A low...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Glennie DL,Hayward JE,McKee DE,Farrell TJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:A new optical parallel detection system of hybrid frequency and continuous-wave domains was developed to improve the data quality and accuracy in recovery of all breast optical properties. This new system was deployed in a previously existing system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided spectroscopy, and allows ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： El-Ghussein F,Mastanduno MA,Jiang S,Pogue BW,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The effect of glucose on fluorescence of synthesized ZnCdS nanoparticles in the presence of glucose oxidase or in a mixture of glucose oxidase and peroxidase has been investigated. Behavior of fluorescence characteristics of ZnCdS nanoparticles with nonstabilized surface and coated with polymer shell is compared. It h...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Kochubey VI,Volkova EK,Konyukhova JG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a single-camera imaging system that can simultaneously acquire brightfield, darkfield, and phase contrast images in real time. Our method uses computational illumination via a programmable light-emitting diode (LED) array at the source plane, providing flexible patterning of illumination angles. Brightf...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu Z,Tian L,Liu S,Waller L

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Predicting the distribution of light inside any turbid media, such as biological tissue, requires detailed information about the optical properties of the medium, including the absorption and scattering coefficients and the anisotropy factor. Particularly, in biophotonic applications where photons directly interact wi...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Azimipour M,Baumgartner R,Liu Y,Jacques SL,Eliceiri K,Pashaie R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedicle screw (PS) fixation has been widely used for spine diseases. Scientists and clinicians employ several approaches to navigate PS during operation. We have demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring the reduced scattering coefficient (μ's) on the trajectory of PS using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). To perfo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu Y,Wang Y,Qian Z,Zhao J,Cao X,Li W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the search for improved imaging modalities for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, a high negative prediction value is also important. Photoacoustic (optoacoustic) imaging is a relatively new technique that has high potential for visualizing breast malignancies, but little is known about the photoacoustic app...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Heijblom M,Piras D,Maartens E,Huisman EJ,van den Engh FM,Klaase JM,Steenbergen W,Manohar S

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Environmental metastability of zirconia (ZrO2) ceramic in the human body [represented by a tetragonal-to-monoclinic (t→m) phase transformation] takes place on the surface of the artificial joint and proceeds with time toward its interior. Its quantitative characterization is mandatory for the safety of joint implants ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Zhu W,Sugano N,Pezzotti G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented an innovative laser-assisted reduction surgery (LARS) based on plasma-induced ablation and photodisruption effects. In addition, we developed a laser operation system. Fetuses of mice from the Institute for Cancer Research that were immersed in physiological saline were irradiated by convergent-pulse...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Wang Y,Xiong Q,Ye Z,Ge J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the first application of Raman spectroscopy in diagnosing nonmalignant, premalignant, malignant, and metastatic stages of breast cancer in a three-dimensional (3-D) cell culture model that closely mimics an in vivo environment. Comprehensive study comparing classification in two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Damayanti NP,Fang Y,Parikh MR,Craig AP,Kirshner J,Irudayaraj J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new skin-imaging method, which was developed recently, gives an informative image data about skin moles by collecting scattered polarized light reflected from their tissue area at different wavelengths and polarizations. This method is called as optical rotational spectropolarimetric imaging (ORSI), which scans the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Graham L,Yitzhaky Y,Abdulhalim I

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toward developing a new method for restoring tissue viscoelasticity in scarred vocal folds, we previously proposed a method to localize biomaterials within subepithelial voids ablated using ultrafast laser pulses. The clinical implementation of this method necessitates the quantification of the laser parameters for ab...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yildirim M,Ferhanoglu O,Kobler J,Zeitels SM,Ben-Yakar A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focusing light inside highly scattering media is a challenging task in biomedical optical imaging, manipulation, and therapy. A recent invention has overcome this challenge by time reversing ultrasonically encoded diffuse light to an ultrasound-modulated volume inside a turbid medium. In this technique, a photorefract...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Yang Q,Xu X,Lai P,Xu D,Wang LV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified measurement of macular pigment optical density (MPOD) is important because of the ocular health benefits that are attributed to these retinal carotenoids. Here, we describe a novel instrument designed for this purpose, based on heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP), which removes a number of difficulties...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Bone RA,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral nerve injury in vivo promotes a regenerative growth in vitro characterized by an improved neurite regrowth. Knowledge of the conditioning injury effects on both morphology and mechanical properties of live sensory neurons could be instrumental to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Benzina O,Szabo V,Lucas O,Saab MB,Cloitre T,Scamps F,Gergely C,Martin M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence goggle system based on the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor active pixel sensor imaging and see-through display technologies. The fluorescence goggle system is a compact wearable intraoperative fluorescence imaging and display system that can guide surgery in...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical optics

authors： Liu Y,Njuguna R,Matthews T,Akers WJ,Sudlow GP,Mondal S,Tang R,Gruev V,Achilefu S

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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