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 …

Optical coherence elastography for tissue characterization: a review

S Wang, KV Larin - Journal of biophotonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) represents the frontier of optical elasticity imaging
techniques and focuses on the micro‐scale assessment of tissue biomechanics in 3D that is …

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 …

Elastography imaging: the 30 year perspective

J Ormachea, KJ Parker - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
From the development of x-ray imaging in the late 19th century, the field of medical imaging
developed an impressive array of modalities. These can measure and image a variety of …

Tendon mechanobiology: Current knowledge and future research opportunities

M Lavagnino, ME Wall, D Little… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tendons mainly function as load‐bearing tissues in the muscloskeletal system; transmitting
loads from muscle to bone. Tendons are dynamic structures that respond to the magnitude …

Engineering approaches for characterizing soft tissue mechanical properties: A review

B Alekya, S Rao, HJ Pandya - Clinical Biomechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
From cancer diagnosis to detailed characterization of arterial wall biomechanics, the elastic
property of tissues is widely studied as an early sign of disease onset. The fibrous structural …

Emerging approaches for high-resolution imaging of tissue biomechanics with optical coherence elastography

JA Mulligan, GR Untracht… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) is an emerging method to image the mechanical
properties of tissue in 3D, with spatial resolution approaching the micrometer-scale. By …

Analysis of strain estimation methods in phase-sensitive compression optical coherence elastography

J Li, E Pijewska, Q Fang, M Szkulmowski… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In compression optical coherence elastography (OCE), deformation is quantified as the local
strain at each pixel in the OCT field-of-view. A range of strain estimation methods have been …

Simplifying the assessment of human breast cancer by mapping a micro‐scale heterogeneity index in optical coherence elastography

L Chin, B Latham, CM Saunders… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Surgical treatment of breast cancer aims to identify and remove all malignant tissue.
Intraoperative assessment of tumor margins is, however, not exact; thus, re‐excision is …

Polarization-sensitive optical coherence elastography

A Miyazawa, S Makita, E Li, K Yamazaki… - Biomedical Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Polarization-sensitive optical coherence elastography (PS-OCE) is developed for improved
tissue discrimination. It integrates Jones matrix-based PS-optical coherence tomography …