Re-evaluation of pulsed photothermal radiometric profiling in samples with spectrally varied infrared absorption coefficient

B Majaron, M Milanič - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectral variation of the sample absorption coefficient in mid-infrared (μ IR) demands
caution in photothermal radiometric measurements, because a constant μ IR is regularly …

Effective infrared absorption coefficient for photothermal radiometric measurements in biological tissues

B Majaron, M Milanič - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Although photothermal radiometric (PTR) measurements commonly employ broad-band
signal acquisition to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, all reported studies apply a fixed …

A spectrally composite reconstruction approach for improved resolution of pulsed photothermal temperature profiling in water-based samples

M Milanič, I Serša, B Majaron - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the first experimental evaluation of pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR)
using a spectrally composite kernel matrix in signal analysis. Numerical studies have …

Spectral variation of the infrared absorption coefficient in pulsed photothermal profiling of biological samples

B Majaron, W Verkruysse, BS Tanenbaum… - Physics in Medicine …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsed photothermal radiometry can be used for non-invasive depth profiling of optically
scattering samples, including biological tissues such as human skin. Computational …

Spectral filtering for improved pulsed photothermal temperature profiling in agar tissue phantoms

M Milanič, B Majaron, JS Nelson - Journal of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a systematic experimental comparison of pulsed photothermal temperature
profiling utilizing the customary spectral band of the InSb radiation detector (λ= 3.0 to 5.6 μ …

Pulsed photothermal temperature profiling of agar tissue phantoms

M Milanič, B Majaron, JS Nelson - Lasers in medical science, 2007 - Springer
We determine experimentally the accuracy of pulsed photothermal radiometric (PPTR)
temperature depth profiling in water-based samples. We use custom tissue phantoms …

Spectral filtering in pulsed photothermal temperature profiling of collagen tissue phantoms

M Milanič, B Majaron - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present an experimental comparison of pulsed photothermal (PPT) profiling in collagen-
based tissue phantoms utilizing different midinfrared spectral bands. Laser-induced …

Selection of optimal infrared detector for pulsed photothermal profiling of vascular lesions

B Majaron, M Milanic, B Choi… - … Biomedical and Clinical …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Selection of infrared (IR) detector is a key consideration in designing an experimental setup
for temperature depth profiling using pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR). In addition to …

Depth profiling of laser-heated chromophores in biological tissues by pulsed photothermal radiometry

TE Milner, DM Goodman, BS Tanenbaum, JS Nelson - JOSA A, 1995 - opg.optica.org
A solution method is proposed to the inverse problem of determining the unknown initial
temperature distribution in a laser-exposed test material from measurements provided by …

Combining singular value decomposition and a non-negative constraint in a hybrid method for photothermal depth profiling

W Verkruysse, B Majaron, B Choi… - Review of scientific …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We present a method to solve the inverse problem in pulsed photothermal radiometry
(PPTR) that exploits advantages of truncated singular value decomposition (T-SVD) while …