Going deeper than microscopy: the optical imaging frontier in biology

V Ntziachristos - Nature methods, 2010 - nature.com
Optical microscopy has been a fundamental tool of biological discovery for more than three
centuries, but its in vivo tissue imaging ability has been restricted by light scattering to …

Diffuse optics for tissue monitoring and tomography

T Durduran, R Choe, WB Baker… - Reports on progress in …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This review describes the diffusion model for light transport in tissues and the medical
applications of diffuse light. Diffuse optics is particularly useful for measurement of tissue …

Optical tomography in medical imaging

SR Arridge - Inverse problems, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a review of methods for the forward and inverse problems in optical tomography.
We limit ourselves to the highly scattering case found in applications in medical imaging …

Optical tomography: forward and inverse problems

SR Arridge, JC Schotland - Inverse problems, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This is a review of recent mathematical and computational advances in optical tomography.
We discuss the physical foundations of forward models for light propagation on microscopic …

Fluorescence imaging with near-infrared light: new technological advances that enable in vivo molecular imaging

V Ntziachristos, C Bremer, R Weissleder - European radiology, 2003 - Springer
A recent development in biomedical imaging is the non-invasive mapping of molecular
events in intact tissues using fluorescence. Underpinning to this development is the …

Near infrared optical tomography using NIRFAST: Algorithm for numerical model and image reconstruction

H Dehghani, ME Eames, PK Yalavarthy… - Communications in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Diffuse optical tomography, also known as near infrared tomography, has been under
investigation, for non‐invasive functional imaging of tissue, specifically for the detection and …

Diffuse optical imaging of brain activation: approaches to optimizing image sensitivity, resolution, and accuracy

DA Boas, AM Dale, MA Franceschini - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse optical imaging (DOI) are finding widespread
application in the study of human brain activation, motivating further application-specific …

Imaging the body with diffuse optical tomography

DA Boas, DH Brooks, EL Miller… - IEEE signal …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an ongoing medical imaging modality in which tissue is
illuminated by near-infrared light from an array of sources, the multiply-scattered light which …

Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy

TS Ralston, DL Marks, P Scott Carney, SA Boppart - Nature physics, 2007 - nature.com
State-of-the-art methods in high-resolution three-dimensional optical microscopy require that
the focus be scanned through the entire region of interest. However, an analysis of the …

Lighting up tumors with receptor-specific optical molecular probes

S Achilefu - Technology in cancer research & treatment, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Accurate and rapid detection of tumors is of great importance for interrogating the molecular
basis of cancer pathogenesis, preventing the onset of complications, and implementing a …