A review of the optical properties of biological tissues

WF Cheong, SA Prahl, AJ Welch - IEEE journal of quantum …, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The known optical properties (absorption, scattering, total attenuation, effective attenuation,
and/or anisotropy coefficients) of various biological tissues at a variety of wavelengths are …

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 …

Flowometry in optical coherence tomography for analyte level estimation

S Reichgott, WJ Shakespeare, G Kechter… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Optical coherence tomography (herein “OCT”) based analyte monitoring systems are
disclosed. In one aspect, techniques are disclosed that can identify fluid flow in vivo (eg …

Noninvasively measuring analyte levels in a subject

MJ Schurman, WJ Shakespeare… - US Patent 9,554,737, 2017 - Google Patents
A method for noninvasively measuring analyte levels includes using a non-imaging OCT-
based system to scan a two-dimensional area of biological tissue and gather data …

Method for data reduction and calibration of an OCT-based physiological monitor

MJ Schurman, WJ Shakespeare… - US Patent 10,130,291, 2018 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating blood analyte levels
using a noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) based physiological monitor. An …

Time resolved reflectance and transmittance for the noninvasive measurement of tissue optical properties

MS Patterson, B Chance, BC Wilson - Applied optics, 1989 - opg.optica.org
When a picosecond light pulse is incident on biological tissue, the temporal characteristics
of the light backscattered from, or transmitted through, the sample carry information about …

Method for data reduction and calibration of an OCT-based physiological monitor

MJ Schurman, WJ Shakespeare… - US Patent 9,078,560, 2015 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating blood analyte levels
using a noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) based physiological monitor. An …

Method for data reduction and calibration of an OCT-based physiological monitor

MJ Schurman, WJ Shakespeare… - US Patent 10,791,971, 2020 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating blood analyte levels
using a noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) based physiological monitor. An …

Determining the optical properties of turbid media by using the adding–doubling method

SA Prahl, MJC van Gemert, AJ Welch - Applied optics, 1993 - opg.optica.org
A method is described for finding the optical properties (scattering, absorption, and
scattering anisotropy) of a slab of turbid material by using total reflection, unscattered …

The physics, biophysics and technology of photodynamic therapy

BC Wilson, MS Patterson - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses light-activated drugs to treat diseases ranging from
cancer to age-related macular degeneration and antibiotic-resistant infections. This paper …