The development and clinical application of microscopic endoscopy for in vivo optical biopsies: Endocytoscopy and confocal laser endomicroscopy

H Zhang, Z He, Z Jin, Q Yan, P Wang, X Ye - … and Photodynamic Therapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Endoscopies are crucial for detecting and diagnosing diseases in gastroenterology,
pulmonology, urology, and other fields. To accurately diagnose diseases, sample biopsies …

Optimization of a flexible fiber-optic probe for epi-mode quantitative phase imaging

Z Guang, P Ledwig, PC Costa, C Filan, FE Robles - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Quantitative oblique back-illumination microscopy (qOBM) is an emerging label-free optical
imaging technology that enables 3D, tomographic quantitative phase imaging (QPI) with epi …

Next-generation endoscopic probe for detection of esophageal dysplasia using combined OCT and angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry

ET Jelly, ZA Steelman, H Zhang, KK Chu… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a/LCI) is an optical technique that enables
depth-specific measurements of nuclear morphology, with applications to detecting …

Single-shot 3D incoherent imaging with diffuser endoscopy

J Lich, T Glosemeyer, J Czarske… - Light: Advanced …, 2024 - light-am.com
Minimally invasive endoscopy offers a high potential for biomedical imaging applications.
However, conventional fiberoptic endoscopes require lens systems which are not suitable …

Fabrication and characterization of large numerical aperture, high-resolution optical fiber bundles based on high-contrast pairs of soft glasses for fluorescence …

B Morova, N Bavili, O Yaman, B Yigit, M Zeybel… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Fabrication and characterization of flexible optical fiber bundles (FBs) with in-house
synthesized high-index and low-index thermally matched glasses are presented. The FBs …

Coherent imaging through multicore fibres with applications in endoscopy

GSD Gordon, R Mouthaan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging through optical fibres has recently emerged as a promising method of micro-scale
optical imaging within a hair-thin form factor. This has significant applications in endoscopy …

Angular range, sampling and noise considerations for inverse light scattering analysis of nuclear morphology

H Zhang, ZA Steelman, DS Ho, KK Chu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, significant work has been devoted to the use of angle‐resolved elastic
scattering for the extraction of nuclear morphology in tissue. By treating the nucleus as a Mie …

Two-wavelength holographic micro-endoscopy

A Gröger, R Kuschmierz, A Birk, G Pedrini… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we present a method for micro-endoscopic topography measurement utilizing
two-wavelength holography. Initially, we evaluate the inter-core dispersion and cross-talk of …

Binarization for eliminating calibration in fiberscope image processing

M Kim, Y Yeo, H Shin - Optics Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
High-density coherent fiber bundles, mainly used for high-resolution fiberscopes, consist of
non-circular cores and have various optical noises such as auto-fluorescence, crosstalk, and …

Recovery of angular scattering profiles through a flexible multimode fiber

H Zhang, ET Jelly, DA Miller, A Wax - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Endoscopic angle-resolved light scattering methods have been developed for early cancer
detection but they typically require multi-element coherent fiber optic bundles to recover …