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 …

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 …

Optical coherence elastography in ophthalmology

MA Kirby, I Pelivanov, S Song… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) can provide clinically valuable information based on
local measurements of tissue stiffness. Improved light sources and scanning methods in …

Quantitative micro-elastography: imaging of tissue elasticity using compression optical coherence elastography

KM Kennedy, L Chin, RA McLaughlin, B Latham… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Probing the mechanical properties of tissue on the microscale could aid in the identification
of diseased tissues that are inadequately detected using palpation or current clinical …

Acoustic micro-tapping for non-contact 4D imaging of tissue elasticity

Ł Ambroziński, S Song, SJ Yoon, I Pelivanov, D Li… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Elastography plays a key role in characterizing soft media such as biological tissue.
Although this technology has found widespread use in both clinical diagnostics and basic …

Spatially-resolved Brillouin spectroscopy reveals biomechanical abnormalities in mild to advanced keratoconus in vivo

P Shao, AM Eltony, TG Seiler, B Tavakol, R Pineda… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Mounting evidence connects the biomechanical properties of tissues to the development of
eye diseases such as keratoconus, a disease in which the cornea thins and bulges into a …

Viscoelasticity imaging of biological tissues and single cells using shear wave propagation

H Li, G Flé, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Ghazavi, L Yazdani… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Changes in biomechanical properties of biological soft tissues are often associated with
physiological dysfunctions. Since biological soft tissues are hydrated, viscoelasticity is likely …

Fiber-optic force sensors for MRI-guided interventions and rehabilitation: A review

H Su, II Iordachita, J Tokuda, N Hata, X Liu… - IEEE sensors …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides both anatomical imaging with excellent soft
tissue contrast and functional MRI imaging (fMRI) of physiological parameters. The last two …

Quantitative methods for reconstructing tissue biomechanical properties in optical coherence elastography: a comparison study

Z Han, J Li, M Singh, C Wu, C Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic analysis of the accuracy of five different methods for extracting the
biomechanical properties of soft samples using optical coherence elastography (OCE). OCE …

Noncontact quantitative biomechanical characterization of cardiac muscle using shear wave imaging optical coherence tomography

S Wang, AL Lopez III, Y Morikawa, G Tao… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on a quantitative optical elastographic method based on shear wave imaging
optical coherence tomography (SWI-OCT) for biomechanical characterization of cardiac …