New frontiers in time-domain diffuse optics, a review

A Pifferi, D Contini, AD Mora, A Farina… - … of biomedical optics, 2016‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
The recent developments in time-domain diffuse optics that rely on physical concepts (eg,
time-gating and null distance) and advanced photonic components (eg, vertical cavity …

Review of optical breast imaging and spectroscopy

D Grosenick, H Rinneberg… - Journal of biomedical …, 2016‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy of the female breast is an area of active research.
We review the present status of this field and discuss the broad range of methodologies and …

Clinical brain monitoring with time domain NIRS: a review and future perspectives

F Lange, I Tachtsidis - Applied Sciences, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an optical technique that can measure brain tissue
oxygenation and haemodynamics in real-time and at the patient bedside allowing medical …

Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy—how deep?

S Mosca, P Dey, M Salimi, B Gardner… - Analytical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) is a technique for interrogating the subsurface
composition of turbid samples noninvasively. This study generically addresses a …

Diffuse optical characterization of collagen absorption from 500 to 1700 nm

SKV Sekar, I Bargigia, AD Mora… - … of biomedical optics, 2017‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Reduction in scattering, high absorption, and spectral features of tissue constituents above
1000 nm could help in gaining higher spatial resolution, penetration depth, and specificity …

Wearable and wireless time-domain near-infrared spectroscopy system for brain and muscle hemodynamic monitoring

M Lacerenza, M Buttafava, M Renna… - Biomedical optics …, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a wearable time-domain near infrared spectroscopy (TD-NIRS) system (two
wavelengths, one detection channel), which fits in a backpack and performs real-time …

Optical characterization of porcine tissues from various organs in the 650–1100 nm range using time-domain diffuse spectroscopy

S Mosca, P Lanka, N Stone… - Biomedical optics …, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a systematic characterization of the optical properties (µ_a and µ_s') of nine
representative ex vivo porcine tissues over a broadband spectrum (650-1100 nm). We …

Solid phantom recipe for diffuse optics in biophotonics applications: a step towards anatomically correct 3D tissue phantoms

SKV Sekar, A Pacheco, P Martella, H Li… - Biomedical optics …, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a tissue mimicking optical phantom recipe to create robust well tested solid
phantoms. The recipe consists of black silicone pigment (absorber), silica microspheres …

MAESTROS: a multiwavelength time-domain NIRS system to monitor changes in oxygenation and oxidation state of cytochrome-C-oxidase

F Lange, L Dunne, L Hale… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a multiwavelength, multichannel, time-domain near-infrared spectroscopy
system named MAESTROS. This instrument can measure absorption and scattering …

The SiPM revolution in time-domain diffuse optics

A Dalla Mora, L Di Sieno, A Behera, P Taroni… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Time-domain diffuse optics is a powerful non-invasive, non-ionizing and label-free
technique based on the use of picosecond pulsed laser light to probe highly scattering …