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 …

The emergence of optical elastography in biomedicine

BF Kennedy, P Wijesinghe, DD Sampson - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Optical elastography, the use of optics to characterize and map the mechanical properties of
biological tissue, involves measuring the deformation of tissue in response to a load. Such …

Optical coherence elastography for tissue characterization: a review

S Wang, KV Larin - Journal of biophotonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) represents the frontier of optical elasticity imaging
techniques and focuses on the micro‐scale assessment of tissue biomechanics in 3D that is …

Imaging the elastic properties of tissue: the 20 year perspective

KJ Parker, MM Doyley, DJ Rubens - Physics in medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
After 20 years of innovation in techniques that specifically image the biomechanical
properties of tissue, the evolution of elastographic imaging can be viewed from its infancy …

Biomechanical Properties of In Vivo Human Skin From Dynamic Optical Coherence Elastography

X Liang, SA Boppart - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic optical coherence elastography is used to determine in vivo skin biomechanical
properties based on mechanical surface wave propagation. Quantitative Young's moduli are …

A review of optical coherence elastography: fundamentals, techniques and prospects

BF Kennedy, KM Kennedy… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In optical coherence elastography, images are formed by mapping a mechanical property of
tissue. Such images, known as elastograms, are formed on the microscale, intermediate …

High-speed optical coherence tomography: basics and applications

M Wojtkowski - Applied optics, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In the past decade we have observed a rapid development of ultrahigh-speed optical
coherence tomography (OCT) instruments, which currently enable performing cross …

Determining elastic properties of skin by measuring surface waves from an impulse mechanical stimulus using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

C Li, G Guan, R Reif, Z Huang… - Journal of The Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mechanical properties of skin are important tissue parameters that are useful for
understanding skin patho-physiology, which can aid disease diagnosis and treatment. This …

Review of tissue simulating phantoms with controllable optical, mechanical and structural properties for use in optical coherence tomography

G Lamouche, BF Kennedy, KM Kennedy… - Biomedical optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We review the development of phantoms for optical coherence tomography (OCT) designed
to replicate the optical, mechanical and structural properties of a range of tissues. Such …

Elastography imaging: the 30 year perspective

J Ormachea, KJ Parker - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
From the development of x-ray imaging in the late 19th century, the field of medical imaging
developed an impressive array of modalities. These can measure and image a variety of …