Recent advances in diffuse optical imaging

AP Gibson, JC Hebden, SR Arridge - Physics in medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current state-of-the-art of diffuse optical imaging, which is an emerging
technique for functional imaging of biological tissue. It involves generating images using …

The role of photodynamic therapy (PDT) physics

TC Zhu, JC Finlay - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging treatment modality that employs the
photochemical interaction of three components: light, photosensitizer, and oxygen …

Method and apparatus for pseudo-projection formation for optical tomography

ME Fauver, JR Rahn, EJ Seibel, AC Nelson - US Patent 7,738,945, 2010 - Google Patents
A system for optical imaging of a thick specimen that permits rapid acquisition of data
necessary for tomographic reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) image. One method …

Near‐infrared diffuse optical tomography

AH Hielscher, AY Bluestone, GS Abdoulaev… - Disease …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is emerging as a viable new biomedical imaging modality.
Using near‐infrared (NIR) light, this technique probes absorption as well as scattering …

Method for correction of relative object-detector motion between successive views

JR Rahn, AC Nelson - US Patent 7,260,253, 2007 - Google Patents
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Optical biopsy of bone tissue: a step toward the diagnosis of bone pathologies

A Pifferi, A Torricelli, P Taroni, A Bassi… - … of biomedical optics, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In vivo absorption and reduced scattering spectra of the human calcaneous from 650 to
1000 nm were assessed using a laboratory system for time-resolved transmittance …

Method and apparatus for three-dimensional imaging in the fourier domain

JR Rahn, AC Nelson - US Patent 6,741,730, 2004 - Google Patents
A tomography device is intended to produce three dimensional reconstructions of objects by
providing a mea Sure of light or X-ray attenuation along a Set of ray paths through the …

Sagittal laser optical tomography for imaging of rheumatoid finger joints

AH Hielscher, AD Klose, AK Scheel… - Physics in Medicine …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel optical tomographic imaging system that was designed to determine two-
dimensional spatial distribution of optical properties in a sagittal plane through finger joints …

System and method for processing specimens and images for optical tomography

ME Fauver, JR Rahn, EJ Seibel, AC Nelson - US Patent 7,811,825, 2010 - Google Patents
A scanning method for scanning samples of biological cells using optical tomography
includes preparing, acquiring, reconstructing and viewing three-dimensional images of cell …

Three-dimensional optical tomography with the equation of radiative transfer

GS Abdoulaev, AH Hielscher - Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We report on the derivation and implementation of the first three-dimensional optical
tomographic image reconstruction scheme that is based on the time-independent equation …