Optical spectroscopy for in vivo medical diagnosis—a review of the state of the art and future perspectives

JA Kim, DJ Wales, GZ Yang - Progress in Biomedical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
When light is incident to a biological tissue surface, combinations of optical processes occur,
such as reflection, absorption, elastic and non-elastic scattering, and fluorescence. Analysis …

Intravascular optical imaging technology for investigating the coronary artery

MJ Suter, SK Nadkarni, G Weisz, A Tanaka… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2011 - jacc.org
There is an ever-increasing demand for new imaging methods that can provide additional
information about the coronary wall to better characterize and stratify high-risk plaques, and …

Mesoscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging: Fundamental principles, clinical applications and future directions

A Alfonso‐Garcia, J Bec, B Weyers… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) is an optical spectroscopic imaging technique capable
of real‐time assessments of tissue properties in clinical settings. Label‐free FLIm is sensitive …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: in vivo application to diagnosis of oral carcinoma

Y Sun, J Phipps, DS Elson, H Stoy, S Tinling, J Meier… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
A compact clinically compatible fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) system
was designed and built for intraoperative disease diagnosis and validated in vivo in a …

Design and evaluation of a device for fast multispectral time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging

DR Yankelevich, D Ma, J Liu, Y Sun, Y Sun… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The application of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TRFS) to in vivo tissue
diagnosis requires a method for fast acquisition of fluorescence decay profiles in multiple …

Fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy for guided therapy of brain tumors

PV Butte, AN Mamelak, M Nuno, SI Bannykh, KL Black… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the potential of time-resolved laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy
(TR-LIFS) as intra-operative tool for the delineation of brain tumor from normal brain. Forty …

Intraoperative delineation of primary brain tumors using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

PV Butte, Q Fang, JA Jo, WH Yong… - … of biomedical optics, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The goal of this study is to determine the potential of time-resolved laser-induced
fluorescence spectroscopy (TR-LIFS) as an adjunctive tool for delineation of brain tumor …

Detection of rupture-prone atherosclerotic plaques by time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

L Marcu, JA Jo, Q Fang, T Papaioannou, T Reil… - Atherosclerosis, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Plaque with dense inflammatory cells, including macrophages, thin fibrous cap
and superficial necrotic/lipid core is thought to be prone-to-rupture. We report a time …

256× 2 SPAD line sensor for time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

N Krstajić, J Levitt, S Poland, S Ameer-Beg… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a CMOS chip 256× 2 single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) line sensor, 23.78
µm pitch, 43.7% fill factor, custom designed for time resolved emission spectroscopy (TRES) …

Multimodal in vivo imaging of oral cancer using fluorescence lifetime, photoacoustic and ultrasound techniques

H Fatakdawala, S Poti, F Zhou, Y Sun, J Bec… - Biomedical optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
This work reports a multimodal system for label-free tissue diagnosis combining
fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm), ultrasound backscatter microscopy (UBM), and …