Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

Wave-based optical coherence elastography: the 10-year perspective

F Zvietcovich, KV Larin - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
After ten years of progress and innovation, optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on
the propagation of mechanical waves has become one of the major and the most studied …

Viscoelastic properties of human pancreatic tumors and in vitro constructs to mimic mechanical properties

A Rubiano, D Delitto, S Han, M Gerber, C Galitz… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is almost universally fatal, in large part due to a
protective fibrotic barrier generated by tumor-associated stromal (TAS) cells. This barrier is …

Existing and Potential Applications of Elastography for Measuring the Viscoelasticity of Biological Tissues In Vivo

K Zhang, M Zhu, E Thomas, S Hopyan, Y Sun - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mechanical tissue properties contribute to tissue shape change during development.
Emerging evidence suggests that gradients of viscoelasticity correspond to cell movement …

Multimodal quantitative optical elastography of the crystalline lens with optical coherence elastography and Brillouin microscopy

YS Ambekar, M Singh, J Zhang, A Nair… - Biomedical Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Assessing the biomechanical properties of the crystalline lens can provide crucial
information for diagnosing disease and guiding precision therapeutic interventions. Existing …

Common-path phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography provides enhanced phase stability and detection sensitivity for dynamic elastography

G Lan, M Singh, KV Larin, MD Twa - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (PhS-OCE) is an emerging optical
technique to quantify soft-tissue biomechanical properties. We implemented a common-path …

The lens capsule significantly affects the viscoelastic properties of the lens as quantified by optical coherence elastography

T Mekonnen, C Zevallos-Delgado, H Zhang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The crystalline lens is a transparent, biconvex structure that has its curvature and refractive
power modulated to focus light onto the retina. This intrinsic morphological adjustment of the …

Optical coherence elastography and its applications for the biomechanical characterization of tissues

C Wang, J Zhu, J Ma, X Meng, Z Ma… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The biomechanical characterization of the tissues provides significant evidence for
determining the pathological status and assessing the disease treatment. Incorporating …

[HTML][HTML] Supershear Rayleigh wave imaging for quantitative assessment of biomechanical properties of brain using air-coupled optical coherence elastography

Y Zhu, J Shi, TEG Alvarez-Arenas, C Li, H Wang… - APL …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, supershear Rayleigh waves (SRWs) have been proposed to characterize the
biomechanical properties of soft tissues. The SRWs propagate along the surface of the …

Acoustic radiation force optical coherence elastography for evaluating mechanical properties of soft condensed matters and its biological applications

HC Liu, P Kijanka, MW Urban - Journal of biophotonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating mechanical properties of biological soft tissues and viscous mucus is challenging
because of complicated dynamic behaviors. Soft condensed matter models have been …