Biomedical applications of integrating sphere: a review

A ul Rehman, I Ahmad, SA Qureshi - Photodiagnosis and photodynamic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrating sphere remains a valuable tool for biomedical optics research. Specifically, it has
been used to determine the optical properties (ie, absorption coefficient, scattering …

Intralipid-based phantoms for the development of new optical diagnostic techniques

M Lepore, I Delfino - The Open Biotechnology Journal, 2019 - benthamopen.com
Intralipid is a material widely employed for the preparation of phantoms for optical imaging
and biophotonics applications in medical field. The development of new optical diagnostic …

Development of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors for use in the diagnostics of malignant and infectious diseases

S Firdous, S Anwar, R Rafya - Laser physics letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) has become an important optical biosensing technology
due to its real-time, label-free, and noninvasive nature. These techniques allow for rapid and …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional croconaine nanoparticles for efficient optoacoustic imaging of deep tumors and photothermal therapy

N Liu, P O'Connor, V Gujrati, P Anzenhofer… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The proper design of near-infrared light-absorbing agents enables efficient optoacoustic
imaging-guided phototherapy. In particular, several croconaine-based organic agents with …

Delineation of the arm blood vessels utilizing hyperspectral imaging to assist with phlebotomy for exploiting the cutaneous tissue oxygen concentration

MHF Aref, AAR Sharawi, YH El-Sharkawy - … and Photodynamic Therapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Significance The estimation of tissue oxygenation is vital in the diagnosis and therapeutic
evaluation of a huge assortment of diseases. The hyperspectral (HS) imaging system is a …

Tissue characterization utilizing hyperspectral imaging for liver thermal ablation

MH Aref, IH Aboughaleb, YH El-Sharkawy - … and Photodynamic Therapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Thermal ablation is the dominant modality to treat liver tumors for patients who
are not surgical candidates.. However, correctly predicting the volume of the subsequent …

[HTML][HTML] Croconaine-based nanoparticles enable efficient optoacoustic imaging of murine brain tumors

N Liu, V Gujrati, J Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, JPF Werner… - Photoacoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
Contrast enhancement in optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging can be achieved with
agents that exhibit high absorption cross-sections, high photostability, low quantum yield …

Emerging technology for intraoperative margin assessment and post-operative tissue diagnosis for breast-conserving surgery

MH Aref, M El-Gohary, A Elrewainy, A Mahmoud… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Tissue-preserving surgery is utilized progressively in cancer therapy, where a
clear surgical margin is critical to avoid cancer recurrence, specifically in breast cancer (BC) …

Comparative study of 3 x 3 Mueller matrix transformation and polar decomposition

A Khaliq, S Ashraf, B Gul, I Ahmad - Optics Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Mueller matrix polarimetry (MMP) has evolved as a tool of paramount importance to study
the polarization properties of biological tissues. The conventional 4 x 4 Mueller matrix M is …

Least squares support vector machine regression combined with Monte Carlo simulation based on the spatial frequency domain imaging for the detection of optical …

X He, X Jiang, X Fu, Y Gao, X Rao - Postharvest Biology and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
A spatial frequency domain imaging system to nondestructively measure wide-field optical
properties of biological tissue has been developed. Optical parameters of absorption (μ a) …