Laser imaging for clinical applications

John P. Van Houten; Wai-Fung Cheong; Eben L. Kermit; Richard A. King; Stanley D. Spilman; David A. Benaron M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.206000

30 March 1995 Laser imaging for clinical applications

John P. Van Houten, Wai-Fung Cheong, Eben L. Kermit, Richard A. King, Stanley D. Spilman, David A. Benaron M.D.

Proceedings Volume 2390, Optical Biophysics; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206000
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Medical optical imaging (MOI) uses light emitted into opaque tissues in order to determine the interior structure and chemical content. These optical techniques have been developed in an attempt to prospectively identify impending brain injuries before they become irreversible, thus allowing injury to be avoided or minimized. Optical imaging and spectroscopy center around the simple idea that light passes through the body in small amounts, and emerges bearing clues about tissues through which it passed. Images can be reconstructed from such data, and this is the basis of optical tomography. Over the past few years, techniques have been developed to allow construction of images from such optical data at the bedside. We have used a time-of-flight system reported earlier to monitor oxygenation and image hemorrhage in neonatal brain. This article summarizes the problems that we believe can be addressed by such techniques, and reports on some of our early results.

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John P. Van Houten, Wai-Fung Cheong, Eben L. Kermit, Richard A. King, Stanley D. Spilman, and David A. Benaron M.D. "Laser imaging for clinical applications", Proc. SPIE 2390, Optical Biophysics, (30 March 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206000

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