Confocal endomicroscopy: instrumentation and medical applications

JM Jabbour, MA Saldua, JN Bixler… - Annals of biomedical …, 2012 - Springer
Advances in fiber optic technology and miniaturized optics and mechanics have propelled
confocal endomicroscopy into the clinical realm. This high resolution, non-invasive imaging …

Trends in fluorescence image-guided surgery for gliomas

JTC Liu, D Meza, N Sanai - Neurosurgery, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Mounting evidence suggests that a more extensive surgical resection is associated with an
improved life expectancy for both low-grade and high-grade glioma patients. However …

Investigation of beam steering performances in rotation Risley-prism scanner

A Li, W Sun, W Yi, Q Zuo - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Rotation Risley-prism scanner appears to be the most promising solution to high-accuracy
beam scanning and target tracking. In the paper, some important issues crucial to the …

Handheld endomicroscope using a fiber-optic harmonograph enables real-time and in vivo confocal imaging of living cell morphology and capillary perfusion

K Hwang, YH Seo, DY Kim, J Ahn, S Lee… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
Confocal laser endomicroscopy provides high potential for noninvasive and in vivo optical
biopsy at the cellular level. Here, we report a fully packaged handheld confocal …

Microscanners for optical endomicroscopic applications

K Hwang, YH Seo, KH Jeong - Micro and Nano Systems Letters, 2017 - Springer
MEMS laser scanning enables the miniaturization of endoscopic catheters for advanced
endomicroscopy such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, optical coherence …

Using modified couple stress theory for modeling the size-dependent pull-in instability of torsional nano-mirror under Casimir force

YT Beni, A Koochi, M Abadyan - International Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
It is well-established that mechanical response of nanostructures is size-dependent. In this
article, the size-dependent pull-in instability of rotational nano-mirror is investigated using …

Point-of-care pathology with miniature microscopes

JTC Liu, NO Loewke, MJ Mandella… - Analytical cellular …, 2011 - content.iospress.com
Advances in optical designs are enabling the development of miniature microscopes that
can examine tissue in situ for early anatomic and molecular indicators of disease, in real …

Handheld line-scanned dual-axis confocal microscope with pistoned MEMS actuation for flat-field fluorescence imaging

L Wei, C Yin, Y Fujita, N Sanai, JTC Liu - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A handheld line-scanned dual-axis confocal (LS-DAC) microscope has been developed for
high-speed (16 frames/s) fluorescence imaging of tissues with sub-nuclear resolution. This …

Fiber endoscopes utilizing liquid tunable-focus microlenses actuated through infrared light

X Zeng, CT Smith, JC Gould… - Journal of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on prototype fiber endoscopes with tunable-focus liquid microlenses integrated at
their distal ends and actuated through infrared (IR) light. Tunable-focus microlenses allow …

Dual-axis confocal microscopy for point-of-care pathology

L Wei, C Yin, JTC Liu - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dual-axis confocal (DAC) microscopy is a high-resolution optical imaging modality that
utilizes simple low-numerical-aperture (NA) beams to achieve effective optical sectioning …