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 …

The emergence of optical elastography in biomedicine

BF Kennedy, P Wijesinghe, DD Sampson - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Optical elastography, the use of optics to characterize and map the mechanical properties of
biological tissue, involves measuring the deformation of tissue in response to a load. Such …

Wave-based optical coherence elastography: the 10-year perspective

F Zvietcovich, KV Larin - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
After ten years of progress and innovation, optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on
the propagation of mechanical waves has become one of the major and the most studied …

High-speed OCT light sources and systems

T Klein, R Huber - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Imaging speed is one of the most important parameters that define the performance of
optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems. During the last two decades, OCT speed has …

Optical coherence elastography in ophthalmology

MA Kirby, I Pelivanov, S Song… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) can provide clinically valuable information based on
local measurements of tissue stiffness. Improved light sources and scanning methods in …

Acoustic micro-tapping for non-contact 4D imaging of tissue elasticity

Ł Ambroziński, S Song, SJ Yoon, I Pelivanov, D Li… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Elastography plays a key role in characterizing soft media such as biological tissue.
Although this technology has found widespread use in both clinical diagnostics and basic …

Optical coherence elastography assessment of corneal viscoelasticity with a modified Rayleigh-Lamb wave model

Z Han, J Li, M Singh, C Wu, C Liu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
The biomechanical properties of the cornea play a critical role in forming vision. Diseases
such as keratoconus can structurally degenerate the cornea causing a pathological loss in …

Wide-field optical coherence micro-elastography for intraoperative assessment of human breast cancer margins

WM Allen, L Chin, P Wijesinghe, RW Kirk… - Biomedical optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Incomplete excision of malignant tissue is a major issue in breast-conserving surgery, with
typically 20-30% of cases requiring a second surgical procedure arising from postoperative …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo corneal elastography: A topical review of challenges and opportunities

G Lan, MD Twa, C Song, JP Feng, Y Huang… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Clinical measurement of corneal biomechanics can aid in the early diagnosis, progression
tracking, and treatment evaluation of ocular diseases. Over the past two decades …

Confocal air-coupled ultrasonic optical coherence elastography probe for quantitative biomechanics

F Zvietcovich, A Nair, YS Ambekar, M Singh… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present an air-coupled ultrasonic radiation force probe co-focused with a phase-
sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for quantitative wave-based …