Solar radiation and human health

A Juzeniene, P Brekke, A Dahlback… - Reports on Progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The Sun has played a major role in the development of life on Earth. In Western culture,
people are warned against Sun exposure because of its adverse effects: erythema …

Chromophore based analyses of steady‐state diffuse reflectance spectroscopy: current status and perspectives for clinical adoption

TM Bydlon, R Nachabé, N Ramanujam… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is a rapidly growing technology in the biophotonics
community where it has shown promise in its ability to classify different tissues. In the steady …

Estimation of lipid and water concentrations in scattering media with diffuse optical spectroscopy from

R Nachabe, BHW Hendriks… - … of biomedical optics, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We demonstrate a method to estimate the concentrations of water and lipid in scattering
media such as biological tissues with diffuse optical spectra acquired over the range of 900 …

Lookup table–based inverse model for determining optical properties of turbid media

N Rajaram, TH Nguyen… - Journal of biomedical …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a lookup table (LUT)–based inverse model for determining the optical properties
of turbid media from steady-state diffuse reflectance spectra that is valid for fiber-based …

Estimation of biological chromophores using diffuse optical spectroscopy: benefit of extending the UV-VIS wavelength range to include 1000 to 1600 nm

R Nachabé, BHW Hendriks, M van der Voort… - Biomedical optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
With an optical fiber probe, we acquired spectra from swine tissue between 500 and 1600
nm by combining a silicon and an InGaAs spectrometer. The concentrations of the biological …

Effect of bile absorption coefficients on the estimation of liver tissue optical properties and related implications in discriminating healthy and tumorous samples

R Nachabé, DJ Evers, BHW Hendriks… - Biomedical optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We investigated differences between healthy tissue and metastatic tumor from ex vivo
human partial liver resections using diffuse optical spectroscopy with a fiber optic probe. We …

Analysis of changes in reflectance measurements on biological tissues subjected to different probe pressures

R Reif, MS Amorosino, KW Calabro… - … of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Spectral reflectance measurements of biological tissues have been studied for early
diagnoses of several pathologies such as cancer. These measurements are often performed …

Sub-diffusive scattering parameter maps recovered using wide-field high-frequency structured light imaging

SC Kanick, DM McClatchy, V Krishnaswamy… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
This study investigates the hypothesis that structured light reflectance imaging with high
spatial frequency patterns (f_x) can be used to quantitatively map the anisotropic scattering …

A fiberoptic reflectance probe with multiple source-collector separations to increase the dynamic range of derived tissue optical absorption and scattering coefficients

A Kim, M Roy, F Dadani, BC Wilson - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Measurement of tissue optical absorption and (transport) reduced scattering coefficients
(μ_a and μ_s', respectively) is fundamental to many applications of light in medicine and …

[HTML][HTML] Apoptosis-and necrosis-induced changes in light attenuation measured by optical coherence tomography

FJ van der Meer, DJ Faber, MCG Aalders… - Lasers in medical …, 2010 - Springer
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was used to determine optical properties of pelleted
human fibroblasts in which necrosis or apoptosis had been induced. We analysed the OCT …