Review of current methods of acousto-optical tomography for biomedical applications

J Gunther, S Andersson-Engels - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2017 - Springer
The field of acousto-optical tomography (AOT) for medical applications began in the 1990s
and has since developed multiple techniques for the detection of ultrasound-modulated …

In vivo ultrasound modulated optical tomography with a persistent spectral hole burning filter

QM Thai, G Kalot, C Venet, J Seguin… - Biomedical optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present in vivo ultrasound modulated optical tomography (UOT) results on mice, using
the persistent spectral hole burning (PSHB) effect in a Tm^ 3+: YAG crystal. Indocyanine …

Alternative interpretation of speckle autocorrelation imaging through scattering media

H Liu, P Lai, J Gao, Z Liu, J Shi, S Han - Photonic Sensors, 2022 - Springer
High-resolution optical imaging through or within thick scattering media is a long sought
after yet unreached goal. In the past decade, the thriving technique developments in …

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography in scattering media: flux filtering based on persistent spectral hole burning in the optical diagnosis window

C Venet, M Bocoum, JB Laudereau, T Chaneliere… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) is a powerful imaging technique to
discriminate healthy from unhealthy biological tissues based on their optical signature …

Material and technique development for ultrasound optical tomography using spectral hole burning filters

A Bengtsson - 2022 - portal.research.lu.se
The molecular sensitivity provided by optical photons has potential advantages in medical
diagnostics, for example, in distinguishing healthy from cancerous tissue. However …

Multi‐modal acousto‐optic/ultrasound imaging of ex vivo liver tumors at 790 nm using a Sn2P2S6 wavefront adaptive holographic setup

JB Laudereau, EB à La Guillaume… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biological tissues are very strong light‐scattering media. As a consequence, current medical
imaging devices do not allow deep optical imaging unless invasive techniques are used …

Rare-earth-doped materials with application to optical signal processing, quantum information science, and medical imaging technology

RL Cone, CW Thiel, Y Sun, T Böttger… - … in Photonics of …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Unique spectroscopic properties of isolated rare earth ions in solids offer optical linewidths
rivaling those of trapped single atoms and enable a variety of recent applications. We design …

Characterization and modeling of acousto-optic signal strengths in highly scattering media

A Bengtsson, D Hill, M Li, M Di, M Cinthio… - Biomedical Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Ultrasound optical tomography (UOT) is an imaging technique based on the acousto-optic
effect that can perform optical imaging with ultrasound resolution inside turbid media, and is …

Deep tissue imaging with acousto-optical tomography and spectral hole burning with slow light effect: a theoretical study

J Gunther, A Walther, L Rippe, S Kröll… - Journal of …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Biological tissue is a highly scattering medium that prevents deep imaging of light. For
medical applications, optical imaging offers a molecular sensitivity that would be beneficial …

Microscopic model of spin flip-flop processes in crystals doped by rare-earth ions

H Syed, A Kinos, C Shi, L Rippe, S Kröll - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Flip-flop processes due to magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between neighboring ions in
crystals doped by rare-earth ions are one of the mechanisms of relaxation between …