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 …

Strain and elasticity imaging in compression optical coherence elastography: The two‐decade perspective and recent advances

VY Zaitsev, AL Matveyev, LA Matveev… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative mapping of deformation and elasticity in optical coherence tomography has
attracted much attention of researchers during the last two decades. However, despite …

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 …

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 …

Skin structure–function relationships and the wound healing response to intrinsic aging

MJ Blair, JD Jones, AE Woessner… - Advances in wound …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, and
pressure ulcers affect millions of Americans each year, and disproportionately afflict our …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo measurement of shear modulus of the human cornea using optical coherence elastography

A Ramier, AM Eltony, YT Chen, F Clouser… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Corneal stiffness plays a critical role in shaping the cornea with respect to intraocular
pressure and physical interventions. However, it remains difficult to measure the mechanical …

Vector method for strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography

AL Matveyev, LA Matveev, AA Sovetsky… - Laser Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A noise-tolerant approach to strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence
elastography, robust to decorrelation distortions, is discussed. The method is based on …

[HTML][HTML] Nearly-incompressible transverse isotropy (NITI) of cornea elasticity: model and experiments with acoustic micro-tapping OCE

JJ Pitre Jr, MA Kirby, DS Li, TT Shen, RK Wang… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The cornea provides the largest refractive power for the human visual system. Its stiffness,
along with intraocular pressure (IOP), are linked to several pathologies, including …

Parametric imaging of attenuation by optical coherence tomography: review of models, methods, and clinical translation

P Gong, M Almasian, G Van Soest… - … of biomedical optics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides cross-sectional and volumetric
images of backscattering from biological tissue that reveal the tissue morphology. The …

Mechanical properties of cell sheets and spheroids: the link between single cells and complex tissues

YM Efremov, IM Zurina, VS Presniakova… - Biophysical …, 2021 - Springer
Cell aggregates, including sheets and spheroids, represent a simple yet powerful model
system to study both biochemical and biophysical intercellular interactions. However, it is …