Ultrafast fiber lasers have significant applications in ultra-precision manufacturing, medical
diagnostics, medical treatment, precision measurement and astronomical detection, owing …

Nanomaterials with remarkable optical, mechanical, and electrical properties have shed
new light on various fields including optoelectronics, sensors, biomedicine, and ultrafast …

Clinical diagnostic devices provide new sources of information that give insight about the
state of health which can then be used to manage patient care. These tools can be as simple …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

▪ Abstract The interaction of light within tissue has been used to recognize disease since the
mid-1800s. The recent developments of small light sources, detectors, and fiber optic probes …

Raman spectroscopy is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that can be used to optically
probe the molecular changes associated with diseased tissues. The objective of our study …

Raman spectroscopy is a potentially important clinical tool for real-time diagnosis of disease
and in situevaluation of living tissue. The purpose of this article is to review the biological …

Abbreviations: ACF, aberrant crypt foci; ALA, 5-aminolevulinic acid; AIS4PC, tetrasulfonated
chloroaluminum phthalocyanine; antiCEA MoAb, anticarcinoembryonic antigen; BBC, basal …

There is a real need for improvements in cancer detection. Significant problems are
encountered when utilising the gold standard of excisional biopsy combined with …

Optical spectroscopy has been extensively studied as a potential in vivo diagnostic tool that
can provide information about both the chemical and morphologic structure of tissue in near …