News and articles on Biomedical Optics and Medical Lasers

Feb 2015

• Generic tissue optical properties..

Dec 2014

• Review article on tissue optical properties (SL Jacques, Phys. Med. Biol. 2013).

Dec 2012

• Jacques' Keynote address at 1^st Int'l Biophotonics meeting in Israel, Tel Aviv, Dec. 9-11, 2012..

Jun 2010

• Laser-Tissue Interactions: Student Workshop Lecture, Steven Jacques, June 5, 2010, Oulu, Finland..

Apr 2008

• Update of analysis of optical fiber spectroscopy. (An update of the Fiber Spectroscopy of Feb. 2006.)

Sep 2006

• Optical properties of mutant vs wildtype mouse skin measured by reflectance-mode confocal scanning laser microscopy.

Aug 2006

• Laser-enhanced percutaneous transport, delivering drugs and collecting blood across the skin.

May 2006

• Arrhenius rate process for thermal coagulation of liver.

Feb 2006

• SPIE 2005 tutorial: Spectroscopic determination of tissue optical properties using optical fiber spectrometer.

Sep 2005

• Saratov meeting Sep., 2005: Confocal microscopy measures tissue optical properties
• Saratov meeting Sep., 2005: Evaluating hemostatic bandages using optical coherence tomography
• Saratov meeting Sep., 2005: Monitoring cellular remodeling of collagneous matrix using optical coherence tomography.
• On optical irradiance versus fluence rate.

Oct 2004

• Saratov meeting Sep. 21-24, 2004: Revealing the colors of tissues using superficially scattered polarized light. Steven L. Jacques, Vince Rossi, John Viator, Shilong Lu, Xiao-Jing Wang.
• Saratov meeting Sep. 21-24, 2004: PDT of horse sarcoids. Kirstin Engelking, Steven L. Jacques, Scott Gustafson DVM.
• Saratov meeting Sep. 21-24, 2004: Polarized light imaging for characterising skin lesion. Steve Morgan, Ian Stockford.
• Saratov meeting Sep. 21-24, 2004: A comparison of optical coherence tomography and ultrasound imaging of human skin in vivo. Sieglinde Neerken, Tom Nuijs, Gerald Lucassen

Oct 2003

• Saratov meeting Oct., 2003: Optical fiber reflectance spectroscopy. Steven L. Jacques, Paulo Bargo, Kirstin Engelking

Oct 2002

• Saratov meeting Oct. 1-4, 2002: Computer simulation of pressure wave generation in biological media by pulsed lasers with various beam profiles. Steven L. Jacques

Oct 2000

• Saratov meeting Oct,2000: optoacoustic imaging. Steven L. Jacques, Guenther Paltauf
• Saratov meeting Oct,2000: Speckle imaging. S. Kirkpatrick.

Oct 1999

• Saratov meeting Oct,1999: polarized light imaging. Steven L. Jacques Ph.D., Ken Lee M.D., Jessica Roman

May 1999

• Diffuse reflectance from a semiinfinite medium.

December 1998

• A minimal Monte Carlo program for simulating steady-state light distributions in tissues.

September 1998

• Monte Carlo sampling of probability distributions: How to make the computer roll dice.
• Spectrum of the month:"PhotochemCAD: photochemical reagents"
• Gallery of images: laser beams.

August 1998

• Simple light dosimetry during endoscopic PDT treatments using an optical fiber with microlens.
• A hyperspectral image of a basket of fruit.
• Spectrum of the month: "aorta tissue"
• Gallery of images: fluorescence lifetime imaging.

July 1998

• Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology 1998.
• Spectrum of the month: "melanin"
• Gallery of images: laser welding of tissues.

June 1998

• Spectrum of the month: "hemoglobin"
• Gallery of images: hyperspectral imaging.

May 1998

• Continuous laser ablation of tissue: simple rules.
• Spectrum of the month: "water"
• Gallery of images: laser poration of skin for transdermal drug delivery and interstitial fluid and blood gas collection.

April 1998

• Highlights of the OSA Spring Topical Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
• The optical properties of Intralipid^TM (10% lipid).
• Spectrum of the month: "methylene blue".
• Gallery of images: killing cells with photodynamic therapy.

March 1998

• Highlights of the LASER-TISSUE INTERACTIONS IX conference at the SPIE Biomedical Optics Society (BiOS) meeting at Photonics West, San Jose.
• Spectrum of the month: "indocyanine green".
• Gallery of images: polarized light in turbid media..

February 1998

• Video imaging with polarized light finds skin cancer margins not visible to dermatologists.
• Non-contact optical transducer for detection of laser-induced photoacoustic signals.
• Gallery of images: Ultrasound-modulated imaging.
• OPINION ARTICLE:SPIE vs OSA: a false choice. Let's keep both biennial meetings.

January 1998

• Government decides Medicare can reimburse certain diagnostics: how will it impact optical diagnostics?
• Skin optics summary.
• Gallery of images: laser speckle.

December 1997

• Phase conjugate mirror and diffraction grating yield stable, collimated, coherent, high-power diode laser.
• Gallery of images: pulsed laser effects in water.

November 1997

• Surfing the WEB for biomedical optics sites.
• OSA Topical Meeting on Dermatology successfully engages scientists and physicians in dialogue on medical lasers and skin optics.
• OSA Annual Meeting in Long Beach touts Life Sciences as special emphasis topic.
• SpectRx develops portable optical spectrometer for monitoring hyperbilirubinemia in newborn infants.
• Gallery of images: optical fibers and deep tissue imaging by optical tomography.