Topics in biomedical optics: introduction

Jeremy C. Hebden, David A. Boas, John S. George, and Anthony J. Durkin

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2869-2870 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Microscopic origin of light scattering in tissue

Alois K. Popp, Megan T. Valentine, Peter D. Kaplan, and David A. Weitz

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2871-2880 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Monte Carlo prediction of near-infrared light propagation in realistic adult and neonatal head models

Yuich Fukui, Yusaku Ajichi, and Eiji Okada

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2881-2887 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid Monte Carlo-diffusion method for light propagation in tissue with a low-scattering region

Toshiyuki Hayashi, Yoshihiko Kashio, and Eiji Okada

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2888-2896 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast-laser-radiation transfer in heterogeneous tissues with the discrete-ordinates method

Zhixiong Guo and Kyunghan Kim

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2897-2905 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared light propagation in an adult head model. I. Modeling of low-level scattering in the cerebrospinal fluid layer

Eiji Okada and David T. Delpy

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2906-2914 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared light propagation in an adult head model. II. Effect of superficial tissue thickness on the sensitivity of the near-infrared spectroscopy signal

Eiji Okada and David T. Delpy

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2915-2921 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Haar transform analysis of photon time-of-flight measurements for quantification of optical properties in scattering media

Claudia E. W. Gributs and David H. Burns

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2923-2930 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-domain multiplexing system for in vivo diffuse light measurements of rapid cerebral hemodynamics

Guoqiang Yu, Turgut Durduran, Daisuke Furuya, Joel H. Greenberg, and Arjun G. Yodh

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2931-2939 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo quantification of optical contrast agent dynamics in rat tumors by use of diffuse optical spectroscopy with magnetic resonance imaging coregistration

David J. Cuccia, Frederic Bevilacqua, Anthony J. Durkin, Sean Merritt, Bruce J. Tromberg, Gultekin Gulsen, Hon Yu, Jun Wang, and Orhan Nalcioglu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2940-2950 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Coregistration of diffuse optical spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging in a rat tumor model

Sean Merritt, Frederic Bevilacqua, Anthony J. Durkin, David J. Cuccia, Ryan Lanning, Bruce J. Tromberg, Gultekin Gulsen, Hon Yu, Jun Wang, and Orhan Nalcioglu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2951-2959 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic response of breast tumor oxygenation to hyperoxic respiratory challenge monitored with three oxygen-sensitive parameters

Yueqing Gu, Vincent A. Bourke, Jae G. Kim, Anca Constantinescu, Ralph P. Mason, and Hanli Liu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2960-2967 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Limited possibility for quantifying mean particle size by logarithmic light-scattering spectroscopy

Maureen Johns and Hanli Liu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2968-2971 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical lever recording of displacements from activated lobster nerve bundles and Nitella internodes

Xin-Cheng Yao, David M Rector, and John S. George

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2972-2978 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical path-length spectroscopy of incipient caries lesions in relation to quantitative light-induced fluorescence and lesion characteristics

Claudia Mujat, Monique H. van der Veen, Jan L. Ruben, Jaap J. ten Bosch, and Aristide Dogariu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2979-2986 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Convective-diffusion-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy for detection of a trace amount of E. coli in water

De-Kui Qing, M. Pinar Mengüç, Fred A. Payne, and Mary-Grace C. Danao

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2987-2994 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Studying biological tissue with fluorescence lifetime imaging: microscopy, endoscopy, and complex decay profiles

Jan Siegel, Daniel S. Elson, Stephen E. D. Webb, K. C. Benny Lee, Alexis Vlandas, Giovanni L. Gambaruto, Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, M. John Lever, Paul J. Tadrous, Gordon W. H. Stamp, Andrew L. Wallace, Ann Sandison, Tim F. Watson, Fernando Alvarez, and Paul M. W. French

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 2995-3004 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorption coefficient imaging by near-field scanning optical microscopy in bacteria

Ana M. de Paula, Claudilene R. Chaves, Haroldo B. Silva, and Gerald Weber

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3005-3008 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Techniques for fast and sensitive measurements of two-dimensional birefringence distributions

Michael Shribak and Rudolf Oldenbourg

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3009-3017 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Submicrosecond speed optical coherence tomography system design and analysis by use of acousto-optics

Nabeel A. Riza and Zahid Yaqoob

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3018-3026 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Precision of measurement of tissue optical properties with optical coherence tomography

Alexander I. Kholodnykh, Irina Y. Petrova, Kirill V. Larin, Massoud Motamedi, and Rinat O. Esenaliev

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3027-3037 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Autofocus algorithm for dispersion correction in optical coherence tomography

Daniel L. Marks, Amy L. Oldenburg, J. Joshua Reynolds, and Stephen A. Boppart

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3038-3046 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated detection of ocular alignment with binocular retinal birefringence scanning

David G. Hunter, Ankoor S. Shah, Soma Sau, Deborah Nassif, and David L. Guyton

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3047-3053 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical topography: practical problems and new applications

Hideaki Koizumi, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Atsushi Maki, Yuichi Yamashita, Hiroki Sato, Hideo Kawaguchi, and Noriyoshi Ichikawa

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3054-3062 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of spatial and temporal variations in the optical properties of tissuelike media with diffuse reflectance imaging

Francesco Fabbri, Maria Angela Franceschini, and Sergio Fantini

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3063-3072 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo quantitative three-dimensional localization of tumor labeled with exogenous specific fluorescence markers

Israel Gannot, Avital Garashi, Gallya Gannot, Victor Chernomordik, and Amir Gandjbakhche

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3073-3080 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence optical diffusion tomography

Adam B. Milstein, Seungseok Oh, Kevin J. Webb, Charles A. Bouman, Quan Zhang, David A. Boas, and R. P. Millane

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3081-3094 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust inference of baseline optical properties of the human head with three-dimensional segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging

Alex H. Barnett, Joseph P. Culver, A. Gregory Sorensen, Anders Dale, and David A. Boas

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3095-3108 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical tomography of a realistic neonatal head phantom

Adam Gibson, Roza Md. Yusof, Hamid Dehghani, Jason Riley, Nick Everdell, Robin Richards, Jeremy C. Hebden, Martin Schweiger, Simon R. Arridge, and David T. Delpy

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3109-3116 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional optical tomography: resolution in small-object imaging

Hamid Dehghani, Brian W. Pogue, Jiang Shudong, Ben Brooksby, and Keith D. Paulsen

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3117-3128 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional shape-based imaging of absorption perturbation for diffuse optical tomography

Misha E. Kilmer, Eric L. Miller, Alethea Barbaro, and David Boas

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3129-3144 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental test of a perturbation model for time-resolved imaging in diffusive media

Lorenzo Spinelli, Alessandro Torricelli, Antonio Pifferi, Paola Taroni, and Rinaldo Cubeddu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3145-3153 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optode positional calibration in diffuse optical tomography

Jonathan J. Stott, Joseph P. Culver, Simon R. Arridge, and David A. Boas

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3154-3162 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo breast imaging with diffuse optical tomography based on higher-order diffusion equations

Yong Xu, Xuejun Gu, Laurie L. Fajardo, and Huabei Jiang

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3163-3169 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-domain optical mammography: initial clinical results on detection and characterization of breast tumors

Dirk Grosenick, K. Thomas Moesta, Heidrun Wabnitz, Jörg Mucke, Christian Stroszczynski, Rainer Macdonald, Peter M. Schlag, and Herbert Rinneberg

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3170-3186 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Collection efficiency of a single optical fiber in turbid media

Paulo R. Bargo, Scott A. Prahl, and Steven L. Jacques

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3187-3197 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of perfusion depth on laser Doppler flow measurements with large source-detector spacing

Yohei Watanabe and Eiji Okada

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3198-3204 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Catheter for diagnosis and therapy with infrared evanescent waves

Brett A. Hooper, Anjul Maheshwari, Adam C. Curry, and Todd M. Alter

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3205-3214 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo port-wine stain depth determination with a photoacoustic probe

John A. Viator, Bernard Choi, Martin Ambrose, Jerome Spanier, and J. Stuart Nelson

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3215-3224 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling the spectral response in guided-mode resonance filter design

Samuel T. Thurman and G. Michael Morris

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3225-3233 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical measurement of depth and duty cycle for binary diffraction gratings with subwavelength features

John R. Marciante, Nestor O. Farmiga, Jeffrey I. Hirsh, Michelle S. Evans, and Hieu T. Ta

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3234-3240 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber Fabry-Perot sensors for detection of partial discharges in power transformers

Bing Yu, Dae Woong Kim, Jiangdong Deng, Hai Xiao, and Anbo Wang

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3241-3250 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Erbium-doped optical fiber fluorescence temperature sensor with enhanced sensitivity, a high signal-to-noise ratio, and a power ratio in the 520–530- and 550–560-nm bands

Gonzalo Paez and Marija Strojnik

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3251-3258 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Resolution limit for two-dimensional crossed-grating patterns projected by a coherent beam

Yasuyuki Unno

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3259-3267 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple polarimetric approach to direct measurement of the near-surface refractive index in graded-index films

Marcelo B. Pereira and Flavio Horowitz

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3268-3270 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Dependence of the Bragg condition on an external electric field for a polymeric photorefractive material

Won-Jae Joo, Hyunaee Chun, In Kyu Moon, and Nakjoong Kim

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3271-3276 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Confocal total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy with a high-aperture parabolic mirror lens

Thomas Ruckstuhl and Stefan Seeger

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3277-3283 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Exact ray-trace beam for an off-axis paraboloid surface

Pedro Arguijo and Marija Strojnik Scholl

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3284-3289 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Description and time reduction of a Monte Carlo code to simulate propagation of polarized light through scattering media

Franck Jaillon and Hervé Saint-Jalmes

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3290-3296 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Structure and scattering properties of Ni₈₀Nb₂₀-MgO water-window multilayer mirrors

Satish Vitta, Martin Weisheit, and Hans-Ulrich Krebs

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3297-3304 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Design considerations for a highly segmented mirror

Stephen Padin

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3305-3312 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Streak camera: a multidetector for diffuse optical tomography

C. Virginie Zint, Wilfried Uhring, Murielle Torregrossa, Bernard Cunin, and Patrick Poulet

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3313-3320 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Penetration depth of single-, two-, and three-photon fluorescence microscopic imaging through human cortex structures: Monte Carlo simulation

Xiaoyuan Deng and Min Gu

Appl. Opt. 42(16), 3321-3329 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF