Biophysics in tumor growth and progression: from single mechano-sensitive molecules to mechanomedicine

Y **n, K Li, M Huang, C Liang, D Siemann, L Wu, Y Tan… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Evidence from physical sciences in oncology increasingly suggests that the interplay
between the biophysical tumor microenvironment and genetic regulation has significant …

Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] A comparative study of medical imaging techniques

H Kasban, MAM El-Bendary… - International Journal of …, 2015 - ilearn.th-deg.de
Abstract Medical Imaging Techniques (MITs) are non-invasive methods for looking inside
the body without opening up the body surgically. It used to assist diagnosis or treatment of …

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 …

Quantitative micro-elastography: imaging of tissue elasticity using compression optical coherence elastography

KM Kennedy, L Chin, RA McLaughlin, B Latham… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Probing the mechanical properties of tissue on the microscale could aid in the identification
of diseased tissues that are inadequately detected using palpation or current clinical …

Cell-matrix mechanical interaction in electrospun polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering: Implications for scaffold design and performance

KM Kennedy, A Bhaw-Luximon, D Jhurry - Acta Biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineered scaffolds produced by electrospinning of biodegradable polymers offer a 3D,
nanofibrous environment with controllable structural, chemical, and mechanical properties …

Noncontact depth-resolved micro-scale optical coherence elastography of the cornea

S Wang, KV Larin - Biomedical optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
High-resolution elastographic assessment of the cornea can greatly assist clinical diagnosis
and treatment of various ocular diseases. Here, we report on the first noncontact depth …

Optimized phase gradient measurements and phase-amplitude interplay in optical coherence elastography

VY Zaitsev, AL Matveyev, LA Matveev… - Journal of …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In compressional optical coherence elastography, phase-variation gradients are used for
estimating quasistatic strains created in tissue. Using reference and deformed optical …