Optical imaging modalities: principles and applications in preclinical research and clinical settings

G Pirovano, S Roberts, S Kossatz… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
With the ability to noninvasively image and monitor molecular processes within tumors,
molecular imaging represents a fundamental tool for cancer scientists. In the current review …

Optical imaging for screening and early cancer diagnosis in low-resource settings

R Richards-Kortum, C Lorenzoni, VS Bagnato… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Low-cost optical imaging technologies have the potential to reduce inequalities in health
care by improving the detection of precancer or early cancer and enabling more effective …

Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure microscope

JT Collins, J Knapper, J Stirling, J Mduda… - Biomedical Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical microscopes are an essential tool for both the detection of disease in clinics, and for
scientific analysis. However, in much of the world access to high-performance microscopy is …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of converting plastic waste to 3D printed products in Sub-Saharan Africa

M Oyinlola, SA Okoya, T Whitehead, M Evans… - … & Recycling Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (3D printing) can transform low-income societies with
underdeveloped infrastructure and inadequate manufacturing capabilities. However, uptake …

Point-of-care applications of smartphone-based microscopy

R Ayardulabi, E Khamespanah, S Abbasinia… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Detecting specific cells and molecules in a sample poses a challenge in remote and
resource-limited areas, which has resulted in the rising demand for Point-Of-Care (POC) …

A review on low‐cost microscopes for O pen S cience

J Salido, G Bueno, J Ruiz‐Santaquiteria… - Microscopy research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a review after an exhaustive search that yielded 23 works carried out in
the last decade for the availability of optical microscopes with open hardware as a low‐cost …

minispim—A miniaturized light-sheet microscope

PN Hedde - ACS sensors, 2021 - ACS Publications
The miniSPIM is a miniaturized light-sheet microscope that enables imaging with optical
sectioning on mobile camera devices such as smartphones and single-board computers …

A modular microscopic smartphone attachment for imaging and quantification of multiple fluorescent probes using machine learning

MA Sami, M Tayyab, P Parikh, H Govindaraju… - Analyst, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Portable smartphone-based fluorescent microscopes are becoming popular owing to their
ability to provide major functionalities offered by regular benchtop microscopes at a fraction …

An affordable, handheld multimodal microscopic system with onboard cell morphology and counting features on a mobile device

D Rabha, S Biswas, D Hatiboruah, P Das, MA Rather… - Analyst, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microscopes, bright-field (BF) and fluorescence microscopes, in particular, are ubiquitous for
clinical diagnostics, cellular and microbiological investigations and in research laboratories …

Deep learning-assisted smartphone-based quantitative microscopy for label-free peripheral blood smear analysis

B Huang, L Kang, VTC Tsang, CTK Lo… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Hematologists evaluate alterations in blood cell enumeration and morphology to confirm
peripheral blood smear findings through manual microscopic examination. However, routine …