Going deeper than microscopy: the optical imaging frontier in biology

V Ntziachristos - Nature methods, 2010 - nature.com
Optical microscopy has been a fundamental tool of biological discovery for more than three
centuries, but its in vivo tissue imaging ability has been restricted by light scattering to …

Overview of diffuse optical tomography and its clinical applications

Y Hoshi, Y Yamada - Journal of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT), one of the most sophisticated optical
imaging techniques for observations through biological tissue, allows 3-D quantitative …

Fluorescence molecular imaging

V Ntziachristos - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2006 - annualreviews.org
There is a wealth of new fluorescent reporter technologies for tagging of many cellular and
subcellular processes in vivo. This imposed contrast is now captured with an increasing …

FMT-XCT: in vivo animal studies with hybrid fluorescence molecular tomography–X-ray computed tomography

A Ale, V Ermolayev, E Herzog, C Cohrs… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The development of hybrid optical tomography methods to improve imaging performance
has been suggested over a decade ago and has been experimentally demonstrated in …

Practical reconstruction method for bioluminescence tomography

W Cong, G Wang, D Kumar, Y Liu, M Jiang… - Optics …, 2005 - opg.optica.org
Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is used to localize and quantify bioluminescent sources
in a small living animal. By advancing bioluminescent imaging to a tomographic framework …

Hybrid PET-optical imaging using targeted probes

M Nahrendorf, E Keliher, B Marinelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Fusion imaging of radionuclide-based molecular (PET) and structural data [x-ray computed
tomography (CT)] has been firmly established. Here we show that optical measurements …

Diagnosing breast cancer using Raman spectroscopy: prospective analysis

AS Haka, Z Volynskaya, JA Gardecki… - … of biomedical optics, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present the first prospective test of Raman spectroscopy in diagnosing normal, benign,
and malignant human breast tissues. Prospective testing of spectral diagnostic algorithms …

Combined optical and X-ray tomosynthesis breast imaging

Q Fang, J Selb, SA Carp, G Boverman, EL Miller… - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To explore the optical and physiologic properties of normal and lesion-bearing
breasts by using a combined optical and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging system …

Diagnosing breast cancer using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy

Z Volynskaya, AS Haka, KL Bechtel… - … of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy, we have
developed an algorithm that successfully classifies normal breast tissue, fibrocystic change …

Multimodality in vivo imaging systems: twice the power or double the trouble?

SR Cherry - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Many different types of radiation have been exploited to provide images of the structure and
function of tissues inside a living subject. Each imaging modality is characterized by differing …