Topics in Biomedical Optics:introduction

Gregory W. Faris, Vasilis Ntziachristos, David M. Rector, and Lihong Wang

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1595-1596 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlled Monte Carlo method for light propagation in tissue of semi-infinite geometry

Nanguang Chen

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1597-1603 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical investigation of measuring cerebral blood flow in the adult human head using bolus Indocyanine Green injection and near-infrared spectroscopy

Terence S. Leung, Ilias Tachtsidis, Martin Tisdall, Martin Smith, David T. Delpy, and Clare E. Elwell

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1604-1614 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography with intense acoustic bursts

Roger J. Zemp, Chulhong Kim, and Lihong V. Wang

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1615-1623 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-domain sensitivity analysis for small imaging domains using the equation of radiative transfer

Xuejun Gu, Kui Ren, and Andreas H. Hielscher

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1624-1632 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Significance of tissue anisotropy in optical tomography of the infant brain

Juha Heiskala, Tuomas Neuvonen, P. Ellen Grant, and Ilkka Nissilä

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1633-1640 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-domain Green functions for diffuse light in two adjoining turbid half-spaces

Margarita L. Shendeleva

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1641-1649 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity characterization of a time-domain fluorescence imager: eXplore Optix

Guobin Ma, Pascal Gallant, and Laura McIntosh

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1650-1657 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of probe arrangement on reproducibility of images by near-infrared topography evaluated by a virtual head phantom

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Tatsuya Koyama, and Eiji Okada

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1658-1668 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Subsurface diffuse optical tomography can localize absorber and fluorescent objects but recovered image sensitivity is nonlinear with depth

Dax S. Kepshire, Scott C. Davis, Hamid Dehghani, Keith D. Paulsen, and Brian W. Pogue

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1669-1678 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal sparse solution for fluorescent diffuse optical tomography: theory and phantom experimental results

Pouyan Mohajerani, Ali A. Eftekhar, Jiandong Huang, and Ali Adibi

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1679-1685 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of simplified Monte Carlo simulation and diffusion approximation for the fluorescence signal from phantoms with typical mouse tissue optical properties

Guobin Ma, Jean-François Delorme, Pascal Gallant, and David A. Boas

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1686-1692 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Image correction algorithm for functional three-dimensional diffuse optical tomography brain imaging

Yong Xu, Harry L. Graber, and Randall L. Barbour

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1693-1704 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Image correction scheme applied to functional diffuse optical tomography scattering images

Harry L. Graber, Yong Xu, and Randall L. Barbour

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1705-1716 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy of the human forehead

Daniela Comelli, Andrea Bassi, Antonio Pifferi, Paola Taroni, Alessandro Torricelli, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Fabrizio Martelli, and Giovanni Zaccanti

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1717-1725 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Chemical concentration measurement in blood serum and urine samples using liquid-core optical fiber Raman spectroscopy

Dahu Qi and Andrew J. Berger

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1726-1734 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization effects on scatterer sizing accuracy analyzed with frequency-domain angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry

John W. Pyhtila and Adam Wax

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1735-1741 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Empirical model functions to calculate hematocrit-dependent optical properties of human blood

Martina Meinke, Gerhard Müller, Jürgen Helfmann, and Moritz Friebel

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1742-1753 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous recording of skin blood pulsations at different vascular depths by multiwavelength photoplethysmography

Janis Spigulis, Lasma Gailite, Alexey Lihachev, and Renars Erts

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1754-1759 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Confocal light absorption and scattering spectroscopic microscopy

Hui Fang, Le Qiu, Edward Vitkin, Munir M. Zaman, Charlotte Andersson, Saira Salahuddin, Lauren M. Kimerer, Patsy B. Cipolloni, Mark D. Modell, Bradley S. Turner, Sarah E. Keates, Irving Bigio, Irving Itzkan, Steven D. Freedman, Rama Bansil, Eugene B. Hanlon, and Lev T. Perelman

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1760-1769 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution frequency-domain second-harmonic optical coherence tomography

Jianping Su, Ivan V. Tomov, Yi Jiang, and Zhongping Chen

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1770-1775 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Phenotyping transgenic embryonic murine hearts using optical coherence tomography

Michael W. Jenkins, Pankti Patel, Huayun Deng, Monica M. Montano, Michiko Watanabe, and Andrew M. Rollins

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1776-1781 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Correlation between optical coherence tomography images and histology of pigskin

Roman Kuranov, Veronika Sapozhnikova, Donald Prough, Inga Cicenaite, and Rinat Esenaliev

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1782-1786 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of dual-band continuum light source for ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography

Hui Wang and Andrew M. Rollins

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1787-1794 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiscan time-domain optical coherence tomography for retina imaging

Carla Carmelo Rosa, John Rogers, Justin Pedro, Richard Rosen, and Adrian Podoleanu

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1795-1808 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Directional eye fixation sensor using birefringence-based foveal detection

Boris I. Gramatikov, Othman H. Y. Zalloum, Yi Kai Wu, David G. Hunter, and David L. Guyton

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1809-1818 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Gaussian approximations of fluorescence microscope point-spread function models

Bo Zhang, Josiane Zerubia, and Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1819-1829 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of Hartmann analysis methods

Carmen Canovas and Erez N. Ribak

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1830-1835 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative phase imaging of live cells using fast Fourier phase microscopy

Niyom Lue, Wonshik Choi, Gabriel Popescu, Takahiro Ikeda, Ramachandra R. Dasari, Kamran Badizadegan, and Michael S. Feld

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1836-1842 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Confocal theta line-scanning microscope for imaging human tissues

Peter J. Dwyer, Charles A. DiMarzio, and Milind Rajadhyaksha

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1843-1851 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of semicrystalline order on the second-harmonic generation efficiency in the anisotropic bands of myocytes

Catherine Greenhalgh, Nicole Prent, Chantal Green, Richard Cisek, Arkady Major, Bryan Stewart, and Virginijus Barzda

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1852-1859 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Random access three-dimensional two-photon microscopy

Balázs Rózsa, Gergely Katona, E. Sylvester Vizi, Zoltán Várallyay, Attila Sághy, Lásló Valenta, Pál Maák, Júlia Fekete, Ákos Bányász, and Róbert Szipőcs

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1860-1865 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Recording invertebrate nerve activation with modulated light changes

Matthew D. McCluskey, Jeffrey J. Sable, Amanda J. Foust, Gabriele Gratton, and David M. Rector

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1866-1871 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-term optical imaging of intrinsic signals in anesthetized and awake monkeys

Anna W. Roe

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1872-1880 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated semiconductor optical sensors for cellular and neural imaging

Ofer Levi, Thomas T. Lee, Meredith M. Lee, Stephen J Smith, and James S. Harris

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1881-1889 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Oblique-incidence reflectivity difference microscope for label-free high-throughput detection of biochemical reactions in a microarray format

Xiangdong Zhu, James P. Landry, Yung-Shin Sun, Jeff P. Gregg, Kit S. Lam, and Xiaowen Guo

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1890-1895 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid-crystal tunable filter spectral imaging for brain tumor demarcation

Steven C. Gebhart, Reid C. Thompson, and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1896-1910 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Monitoring thermal-induced changes in tumor blood flow and microvessels with laser speckle contrast imaging

Dan Zhu, Wei Lu, Yang Weng, Han Cui, and Qingming Luo

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1911-1917 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Strategy for photostable proximity bioassays using lanthanides

Jeanne P. Haushalter and Gregory W. Faris

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1918-1923 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic explorers based on multifunctional nanoplatforms for biosensing and photodynamic therapy

Yong-Eun Lee Koo, Wenzhe Fan, Hoejin Hah, Hao Xu, Dan Orringer, Brian Ross, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Martin A. Philbert, and Raoul Kopelman

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1924-1930 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of total uncertainty in spectral peak measurements for plasmonic nanoparticle-based biosensors

Adam Curry, Gregory Nusz, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Adam Wax

Appl. Opt. 46(10), 1931-1939 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF