Editorial: Introduction to the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

Gregory W. Faris

Virtual J. Biomed. Opt. 1(1), 1-1 (2006)  View: PDF

Quantitative spectroscopy of superficial turbid media

Sheng-Hao Tseng, Carole Hayakawa, Bruce J. Tromberg, Jerome Spanier, and Anthony J. Durkin

Opt. Lett. 30(23), 3165-3167 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental observation of universality in depolarized light scattering

Graciana Puentes, Dirk Voigt, Andrea Aiello, and J. P. Woerdman

Opt. Lett. 30(23), 3216-3218 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatially resolved Fourier holographic light scattering angular spectroscopy

Sergey A. Alexandrov, Timothy R. Hillman, and David D. Sampson

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3305-3307 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of an analytic method for image reconstruction in optical diffusion tomography with large data sets

Zheng-Min Wang, George Y. Panasyuk, Vadim A. Markel, and John C. Schotland

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3338-3340 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence-lifetime-based tomography for turbid media

Anand T.N. Kumar, Jesse Skoch, Brian J. Bacskai, David A. Boas, and Andrew K. Dunn

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3347-3349 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging obscured subsurface inhomogeneity using laser speckle

Ralph Nothdurft and Gang Yao

Opt. Express 13(25), 10034-10039 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of anatomical structure and non-uniform distribution of imaging agent in near-infrared fluorescence-enhanced optical tomography

Amit K. Sahu, Ranadhir Roy, Amit Joshi, and Eva M. Sevick-Muraca

Opt. Express 13(25), 10182-10199 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (7)]

Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part II

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Scott A. Prahl, and Steven L. Jacques

Opt. Express 13(25), 10392-10405 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray tracing model for the estimation of power spectral properties in laser Doppler velocimetry of retinal vessels and its potential application to retinal vessel oximetry

Benno L. Petrig and Lysianne Follonier

Opt. Express 13(26), 10642-10651 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Patterns in Mie scattering: evolution when normalized by the Rayleigh cross section

Matthew J. Berg, Christopher M. Sorensen, and Amit Chakrabarti

Appl. Opt. 44(34), 7487-7493 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple algorithm for the measurement of absorption coefficients of a two-layered medium by spatially resolved and time-resolved reflectance

Miho Shimada, Yoko Hoshi, and Yukio Yamada

Appl. Opt. 44(35), 7554-7563 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring the optical parameters of weakly absorbing, highly turbid suspensions by a new technique: photoacoustic detection of scattered light

Zuomin Zhao and Risto Myllylä

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7845-7852 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple-scattering effects on static light-scattering optical structure factor measurements

Tahereh Mokhtari, Christopher M. Sorensen, and Amit Chakrabarti

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7858-7861 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-resolved interferometer measurements of polarized wave propagation in scattering media

Timothy D. Gerke, Mark A. Webster, Andrew M. Weiner, and Kevin J. Webb

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2691-2699 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering efficiency of aggregated clusters of spheres: dependence on configuration and composition

Jean-Claude Auger, Brian Stout, and Vincent Martinez

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2700-2708 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

115?kHz tuning repetition rate ultrahigh-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser

W. Y. Oh, S. H. Yun, G. J. Tearney, and B. E. Bouma

Opt. Lett. 30(23), 3159-3161 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy (nanojoule) femtosecond pulse delivery with record dispersion higher-order mode fiber

S. Ramachandran, M. F. Yan, J. Jasapara, P. Wisk, S. Ghalmi, E. Monberg, and F. V. Dimarcello

Opt. Lett. 30(23), 3225-3227 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast scanning transmissive delay line for optical coherence tomography

Carla C. Rosa, John Rogers, Adrian Gh. Podoleanu

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3263-3265 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-confocal fluorescence sectioning with dynamic speckle illumination

Cathie Ventalon and Jerome Mertz

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3350-3352 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically sectioned fluorescence lifetime imaging using a Nipkow disk microscope and a tunable ultrafast continuum excitation source

D. M. Grant, D. S. Elson, D. Schimpf, C. Dunsby, J. Requejo-Isidro, E. Auksorius, I. Munro, M. A.A. Neil, P. M.W. French, E. Nye, G. Stamp, and P. Courtney

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3353-3355 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated detection of retinal layer structures on optical coherence tomography images

Delia Cabrera Fernández, Harry M. Salinas, and Carmen A. Puliafito

Opt. Express 13(25), 10200-10216 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High speed spectral domain polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography of the human retina

Erich Götzinger, Michael Pircher, and Christoph K. Hitzenberger

Opt. Express 13(25), 10217-10229 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Investigation of polarization effects for high-numerical-aperture first-order Laguerre-Gaussian beams by 2D scanning with a single fluorescent microbead

Nándor Bokor, Yoshinori Iketaki, Takeshi Watanabe, and Masaaki Fujii

Opt. Express 13(26), 10440-10447 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

A maximum-likelihood formalism for sub-resolution axial localization of fluorescent nanoparticles

François Aguet, Dimitri Van De Ville, and Michael Unser

Opt. Express 13(26), 10503-10522 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional and C-mode OCT imaging with a compact, frequency swept laser source at 1300 nm

R. Huber, M. Wojtkowski, J. G. Fujimoto, J. Y. Jiang, and A. E. Cable

Opt. Express 13(26), 10523-10538 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Simulations of nanoscale interferometer and array focusing by metal heterowaveguides

Bing Wang and Guo Ping Wang

Opt. Express 13(26), 10558-10563 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional and high-speed swept-source optical coherence tomography for in vivo investigation of human anterior eye segments

Yoshiaki Yasuno, Violeta Dimitrova Madjarova, Shuichi Makita, Masahiro Akiba, Atsushi Morosawa, Changho Chong, Toru Sakai, Kin-Pui Chan, Masahide Itoh, and Toyohiko Yatagai

Opt. Express 13(26), 10652-10664 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (6)]

Membrane ripples of a living cell measured by non-interferometric widefield optical profilometry

Chun-Chieh Wang, Jiunn-Yuan Lin, and Chau-Hwang Lee

Opt. Express 13(26), 10665-10672 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-resolution mapping of the optical near-field components at a triangular nano-aperture

D. Molenda, G.Colas des Francs, U.C. Fischer, N. Rau, and A. Naber

Opt. Express 13(26), 10688-10696 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode propagation in optical nanowaveguides with dielectric cores and surrounding metal layers

Anatoly S. Lapchuk, Dongho Shin, Ho-Seop Jeong, Chun Su Kyong, and Dong-Ik Shin

Appl. Opt. 44(35), 7522-7531 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of source spectral shape on task-based assessment of detection and resolution in optical coherence tomography

A. Ceyhun Akcay, Eric Clarkson, and Jannick P. Rolland

Appl. Opt. 44(35), 7573-7580 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of nonlinear frequency sweep in an optical frequency-domain reflectometer by use of Hilbert transformation

Tae-Jung Ahn, Ji Yong Lee, and Dug Young Kim

Appl. Opt. 44(35), 7630-7634 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-working-distance incoherent-light interference microscope

Michael B. Sinclair, Maarten P. de Boer, and Alex D. Corwin

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7714-7721 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal-to-noise ratio study of full-field Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography

Paul Blazkiewicz, Malcolm Gourlay, John R. Tucker, Aleksandar D. Rakic, and Andrei V. Zvyagin

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7722-7729 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of illumination in an integral imaging system with large depth of focus

Dong-Hak Shin, Byoungho Lee, and Eun-Soo Kim

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7749-7753 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

High-pass-filtered diffraction microtomography by coherent hard x rays for cell imaging: theoretical and numerical studies of the imaging and reconstruction principles

Tetsuya Yuasa, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Zhong Zhong, Anton Maksimenko, F. Avraham Dilmanian, Takao Akatsuka, and Masami Ando

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2622-2634 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended Nijboer–Zernike approach to aberration and birefringence retrieval in a high-numerical-aperture optical system

Joseph J.M. Braat, Peter Dirksen, Augustus J.E.M. Janssen, Sven van Haver, and Arthur S. van de Nes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2635-2650 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation of topographic images and artifacts in illumination-mode scanning-near-field optical microscopy

Xueen Wang, Zhaozhong Fan, and Tiantong Tang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2730-2736 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional imaging theory of confocal self-interference microscopy

DongKyun Kang and DaeGab Gweon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2737-2745 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Focused X-shaped pulses: errata

Michel Zamboni-Rached, Amr M. Shaarawi, and Erasmo Recami

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2900-2900 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Harmonic generation with temporally focused ultrashort pulses

Dan Oron and Yaron Silberberg

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22(12), 2660-2663 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-resolved Hadamard fluorescence imaging

Kai Hassler, Tiemo Anhut, and Theo Lasser

Appl. Opt. 44(35), 7564-7572 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Role of the stimulated-emission rate in the photostability of solid-state dye lasers

Alok Kumar Ray, Sasi Kumar, Narayan Vitthal Mayekar, Sucharita Sinha, Soumitra Kundu, Subrata Chattopadhyay, and Kamalesh Dasgupta

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7814-7822 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Subfemtomole detection of small molecules with microsphere sensors

Ian M. White, Niranjan M. Hanumegowda, and Xudong Fan

Opt. Lett. 30(23), 3189-3191 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Miniature all-silica fiber optic pressure and acoustic sensors

Juncheng Xu, Xingwei Wang, Kristie L. Cooper, and Anbo Wang

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3269-3271 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber optic liquid leak detection technique with an ultrasonic actuator and a fiber Bragg grating

Jung-Ryul Lee and Hiroshi Tsuda

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3293-3295 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoacoustic flow measurements by use of laser-induced shape transitions of gold nanorods

Pai-Chi Li, Sheng-Wen Huang, Chen-Wei Wei, Ya-Chin Chiou, Cheng-Dah Chen, and Churng-Ren Chris Wang

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3341-3343 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated optics ring-resonator sensors for protein detection

A. Ksendzov and Y. Lin

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3344-3346 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced optical chromatography in a PDMS microfluidic system

A. Terray, J. Arnold, and S. J. Hart

Opt. Express 13(25), 10406-10415 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Tuning whispering gallery modes in optical microspheres with chemical etching

Ian M. White, Niranjan M. Hanumegowda, Hesam Oveys, and Xudong Fan

Opt. Express 13(26), 10754-10759 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of gradient-index lens-fiber spacing toward applications in two-photon fluorescence endoscopy

Ling Fu, Xiaosong Gan, and Min Gu

Appl. Opt. 44(34), 7270-7274 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirped arrays of refractive ellipsoidal microlenses for aberration correction under oblique incidence

Jacques Duparré, Frank Wippermann, Peter Dannberg, and Andreas Reimann

Opt. Express 13(26), 10539-10551 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Redundancy of stereoscopic images: Experimental evaluation

L. P. Yaroslavsky, J. Campos, M. Espínola, and I. Ideses

Opt. Express 13(26), 10895-10907 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical characterization of ophthalmic lenses by means of modulation transfer function determination from a laser speckle pattern

Antonio Manuel Pozo and Manuel Rubiño

Appl. Opt. 44(36), 7744-7748 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Influences of reference plane and direction of measurement on eye aberration measurement

David A. Atchison and W. Neil Charman

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2589-2597 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of wavelength on in vivo images of the human cone mosaic

Stacey S. Choi, Nathan Doble, Julianna Lin, Julian Christou, and David R. Williams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2598-2605 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Directional light scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Brian Vohnsen, Ignacio Iglesias, and Pablo Artal

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2606-2612 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum and gas cell in a single microstructured fiber

T. Ritari, G. Genty, and H. Ludvigsen

Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3380-3382 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear propagation of fs laser pulses in liquids and evolution of supercontinuum generation

Jiansheng Liu, H. Schroeder, S. L. Chin, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Opt. Express 13(25), 10248-10259 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Anomalous phenomenon of a focused evanescent Laguerre-Gaussian beam

Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan, and Min Gu

Opt. Express 13(25), 10360-10366 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Oceanic inherent optical properties: proposed single laser lidar and retrieval theory

Frank E. Hoge

Appl. Opt. 44(34), 7483-7486 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond-to-nanosecond nonlinear spectroscopy of polymethine molecules

Richard S. Lepkowicz, Claudiu M. Cirloganu, Jie Fu, Olga V. Przhonska, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland, Mikhail V. Bondar, Yuriy L. Slominsky, and Alexei D. Kachkovski

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22(12), 2664-2685 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization holographic high-density optical data storage in bacteriorhodopsin film

Baoli Yao, Zhiwei Ren, Neimule Menke, Yingli Wang, Yuan Zheng, Ming Lei, Guofu Chen, and Norbert Hampp

Appl. Opt. 44(34), 7344-7348 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF