Surgical resection of cancer remains an important treatment modality. Despite advances in
preoperative imaging, surgery itself is primarily guided by the surgeon's ability to locate …

This short review surveys recent developments in coronary intravascular imaging
technologies. We present an outline of the applications of intravascular imaging for …

Various tumor types exhibit the spectral fingerprints in the absorption and reflection spectra
in visible and especially in near-to short-wave-infrared wavelength ranges. For the purpose …

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading cancers in men in the USA. Lack of experimental
tools that predict therapy response is one of the limitations of current therapeutic regimens …

Objective: Bacteria in chronic wounds are invisible to the naked eye and can lead to delayed
wound healing. Point-of-care bacterial fluorescence imaging illuminates a wound with …

The autofluorescence visualization method (AVM) uses blue excitation light to assist in the
diagnosis of epithelial dysplasia. It detects epithelial dysplasia as a black area, which is …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major international health and economic concern. A key
pathological feature of AD is so-called “amyloid-β-plaques”, or “Aβ-plaques”, which are …

Clinical wound assessment involves microbiological swabbing of wounds to identify and
quantify bacterial species, and to determine microbial susceptibility to antibiotics. The Levine …

The 2 μm and upconversion emission in low phonon (805 cm− 1) germanate glass and
double-clad optical fibers co-doped with 0.7 Yb 2 O 3/(0.07–0.7) Ho 2 O 3 ions have been …

Autofluorescence photobleaching describes the decrease of fluorescence intensity of
endogenous fluorophores in biological tissue upon light irradiation. The origin of …