Portable optical tissue flow oximeter based on diffuse correlation spectroscopy

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3556-3558 (2009)
• Shang, Yu; Zhao, Youquan; Cheng, Ran; Dong, Lixin; Irwin, Daniel; Yu, Guoqiang
• A portable diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) flowmeter has been extended to measure both tissue blood flow and oxygenation (namely, DCS flow oximeter). For validation purposes,...

Fluorescence tomographic imaging using a handheld-probe-based optical imager: extensive phantom studies

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 48 Issue 33, pp.6408-6416 (2009)
• Ge, Jiajia; Erickson, Sarah J; Godavarty, Anuradha
• Handheld-probe-based optical imagers are a popular approach toward breast imaging because of their potential portability and maximum patient comfort. A novel handheld-probe-based...

Analysis of fast full angle fluorescence diffuse optical tomography with beam-forming illumination

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21376-21395 (2009)
• Wang, Daifa; Liu, Xin; Bai, Jing
• Challenges remain in imaging fast biological activities through whole body using fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (FDOT). We propose and analyze three full angle FDOT systems...

Multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) scanner for whole-body small animal imaging

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21414-21426 (2009)
• Ma, Rui; Taruttis, Adrian; Ntziachristos, Vasilis; Razansky, Daniel
• A major difficulty arising from whole-body optoacoustic imaging is the long acquisition times associated with recording signals from multiple spatial projections. The acquired...

Retinal imaging with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21634-21651 (2009)
• Cense, Barry; Gao, Weihua; Brown, Jeffrey M; Jones, Steven M; Jonnal, Ravi S; Mujat, Mircea; Park, B Hyle; de Boer, Johannes F; Miller, Donald T
• Various layers of the retina are well known to alter the polarization state of light. Such changes in polarization may be a sensitive indicator of tissue structure and function, and...

In vivo dynamic optical coherence elastography using a ring actuator

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21762-21772 (2009)
• Kennedy, Brendan F; Hillman, Timothy R; McLaughlin, Robert A; Quirk, Bryden C; Sampson, David D
• We present a novel sample arm arrangement for dynamic optical coherence elastography based on excitation by a ring actuator. The actuator enables coincident excitation and imaging to...

Optoacoustic imaging using fiber-optic interferometric sensors

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3695-3697 (2009)
• Lamela, Horacio; Gallego, Daniel; Oraevsky, Alexander
• An interferometric sensor based on nonmetallic silica optical fiber is presented as an ultrasonic wideband transducer for optoacoustic imaging applications. We have characterized the...