Oxygenation measurements are widely used in patient care. However, most clinically
available instruments currently consist of contact probes that only provide global monitoring …

Breast conserving surgery, in which the breast tumor and the surrounding normal tissue are
removed, is the primary mode of treatment for invasive and in situ carcinomas of the breast …

This paper presents new perspectives on photonic technologies for capsule endoscopy. It
first presents a review of conventional endoscopy (upper endoscopy and colonoscopy) …

This paper presents an overview of silicon-based optical sensors for the measurement of
light in the visible spectrum range. The review is focused on sensors based on CMOS …

This protocol describes how to make agarose-based tissue-mimicking phantoms and
demonstrates how to determine their optical properties using a conventional optical system …

Significant numbers of liver biopsies fail to yield representative tissue samples. This study
was conducted to evaluate the ability of LED-based diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to …

We conducted a pilot study on 10 patients undergoing general surgery to test the feasibility
of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in the visible wavelength range as a noninvasive …

This paper presents the design, optimization and fabrication of 16 MgO/TiO_2 and
SiO_2/TiO_2 based high selective narrow bandpass optical filters. Their performance to …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) is a well-established method to quantitatively
distinguish between benign and cancerous tissue for tumor margin assessment. Current …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) has been extensively used for characterization of
biological tissues as a noninvasive optical technique to evaluate the optical properties of …