Optical Coherence Tomography News

1. Feature Of The Week 3/14/10: Multimodal Imaging with Integrated Photoacoustic Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 14 2010) Ophthalmology
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   Feature Of The Week 3/14/10: Photoacoustic Ophthalmoscopy (PAOM) is based on Laser-scanning Optical Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy (LS-OR-PAM), which is a branch of photoacoustic microscopy (PAM). LS-OR-PAM was first developed with the collaboration of Dr. Hao Zhang's lab at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Dr. Shuliang Jiao lab at University of Southern California. PAOM detects the photoacoustic signal induced by pulsed laser light shined onto the retina. By using a stationary ultrasonic transducer in contact with the eyelids and scanning only the laser light across the retina, PAOM provides volumetric imaging of the retinal micro-vasculature and retinal pigment epithelium at a high ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Shuliang Jiao   University of Wisconsin   Keck School of Medicine

2. OCT Guidance for Femtosecond Laser Treatment of Presbyopia

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 7 2010) Ophthalmology
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   Feature Of The Week 3/7/10: Despite the clear and continually growing commercial success of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in a wide range of clinical fields including ophthalmology, cardiology, and microscopy there remain few commercialized examples of OCT integrated with real-time surgical treatment procedures. However, those examples cannot be too far off based on some of the interesting advances in the OCT research world. One recent example was the demonstration of OCT guidance for femtosecond laser treatment of presbyopia which was demonstrated by The Biomedical Optics Department at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. A short description and slide show of some ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Laser Zentrum Hannover   Ole Massow   Holger Lubatschowski

3. Australia & New Zealand Optical Coherence Tomography Workshop May 7th, 2010

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 5 2010) Cardiology
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   “Welcome to the Inaugural Australia & New Zealand Optical Coherence Tomography Workshop. We have set out a program with an internationally recognized faculty to review the use of OCT and discuss its exciting role in Interventional Cardiology. Thank you for joining us”. Peter Barlis & Rob Whitbourn. Enquiries to info@anzoct.org or go to www.anzoct.org. false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Peter Barlis   University of Melbourne   LightLab Imaging

4. 1st Massachusetts General Hospital OCT Registry Symposium Scheduled for March 13, 2010

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 3 2010) Cardiology
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   The utilization of OCT has grown tremendously since the launch of the world’s first frequency domain OCT system (FD-OCT) from LightLab Imaging, Inc. in late 2009. Over 9,000 cases were performed last year, slightly less than the cumulative cases performed in the three years prior with the older Time Domain OCT which was much slower and harder to use. “OCT has come a long way". States Dr. Ik-Kyung Jang. "I have used the new system and it is really fast and easy to use. Because of its data acquisition speed no occlusion is required and the image quality is improved ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Massachusetts General Hospital   Ik-Kyung Jang   LightLab Imaging

5. Cement not included – 10:1 return on investment from federal infrastructure investment in photonics

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 3 2010) Other Business News
   by Blair Patacairk

   Responding to the credit crisis and resulting global recession, national governments around the world are furiously pumping cement-truck loads of money into infrastructure projects. Some of these economic stimulus initiatives will work, some will fail, and few will offer a specific Return On Investment (ROI). Roads, bridges buildings and last generation manufacturing jobs are important – and easy to justify in a political context. Yet building a next generation of successful “cement not included” innovation companies will in turn generate long-term jobs, exports, tax bases, and ultimately pay the tab on the short-term stimulus spends. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   National Research Council Canada

6. Michelson Diagnostics Reports First Quantitative Results on Cancer Diagnosis Using Multi-beam OCT imaging

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Mar 2 2010) Oncology , Other Business News

   (Orpington, UK) March 2, 2010 -- The first quantitative results from a study on the use of multi-beam OCT imaging for oral cancer diagnosis have been announced at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society (HNODS), held in San Francisco, 23-24 Januar (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Michelson Diagnostics   Jon Holmes   Michelson Diagnostics EX1301

7. Multichannel optical coherence tomography using a high-power telescope-less polygon-based swept laser in dual-amplifier configuration

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Feb 28 2010) Tunable Sources
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   Feature Of The Week 2/28/10: Researchers at the University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute and Ryerson University have been active advancing Optical Coherence Tomography in several areas including application of Doppler OCT and advancing the underlying technology to expand and improve the applications and capability of OCT (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Ontario Cancer Institute   University of Toronto   I. Alex Vitkin

8. Measurements of Biomechanics by Dynamic Optical Coherence Elastography

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Feb 21 2010)
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   Feature Of The Week 2/21/10: Optical coherence elastograhy (OCE) is a novel elastography technique that can measure tissue biomechanical properties using mechanical excitations and in vivo optical coherence tomography (OCT). This technique has great potential for detecting mechanical property changes in the tissue micro-structure, such as tumor invasion, due to its high resolution, high speed and non-invasive features. OCE techniques can be classified as static and dynamic depending on its mechanical excitation approaches. Static methods are commonly used in conventional OCE studies, and are based on cross-correlation algorithms1. We concentrated on dynamic OCE techniques in which the sample is excited ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Stephen A. Boppart   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Xing Liang

9. Manual-Scanning Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Probe Based on Position Tracking

   Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Feb 6 2010) Probes
   by Eric Swanson (eric)

   Feature Of The Week 2/7/10: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is now an important modality in the field of biomedical imaging for its high resolution and non-invasive nature. People have been developing OCT endoscopes to penetrate into deep biological tissues and extend the limited light penetration depth in near infrared wavelength region. Different ways of steering the probing beam have been developed over the years. As most of them need some form of mechanical actuation, they usually come with the associated cost of additional hardware that must be integrated onto the probes. An OCT probe that can be manually swept over ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   California Institute of Technology   Changhuei Yang   Jian Ren

10. Lightlab Imaging, Axsun Technologies, and Volcano Corporation in Legal Dispute – Part II

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Feb 5 2010) Cardiology , Other Business News
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    It has been over one year since a lawsuit was filed by Lightlab Imaging against Axsun Technologies and Volcano Corporation (see previous Article). During 2009 lots of complex motions were filed and depositions were taken from various witnesses. The court proceedings before a jury began January 4th, 2010 and ran for nearly a month at the Superior Court in Boston. On Monday February 1st, 2010 the final closing arguments were given by the three parties and the judge charged the jury to consider the fourteen charged complaints against Axsun and Volcano. On Thursday, after four days of deliberating, the jury ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   LightLab Imaging   Axsun Technologies   Volcano

11. Biomedical Optics Workshop at Boston University Photonics Center

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Feb 1 2010)

    The exponential growth of Biomedical Optics in the last decade, resulting from the application of maturing technologies in optical imaging, integrated optics, fiber optics, lasers, detectors, and nano-technology to the medical field, requires practicing professionals to become knowledgeable about a whole new generation of opto-electronic medical equipment. Due to the efforts of innovative researchers, a wide variety of advanced optical techniques have been developed (diffused optical imaging, multi-photon microscopy, optical tomography) for clinical monitoring of diseases in vivo and ex vivo, and pathogen detection. These techniques are becoming essential in Genomics, Proteomics, Biomedical diagnostics, and therapeutics to mention a few. ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Peter So   Harvard University

12. Mechanical Compression Effect in Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Biotissues

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 31 2010)
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 1/31/10: The majority of pathological processes in biotissues lead to their structural changes. The information about such changes is important for correct diagnostics and choice of proper treatment strategy. These changes can be detected using the optical coherence tomography (OCT). For application of OCT d (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy   Russian Academy of Sciences   Alexander I. Abelevich

13. LightLab Imaging Receives Prism Award

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 27 2010) Cardiology , Other Business News

    Westford, MA, January 27, 2010 – LightLab Imaging Inc., the pioneer and leader in the development of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for vascular and other imaging applications, today announced the receipt of the Prism Award for Photonics Innovation in the life sciences category. This award was presented by Laurin Publishing and SPIE during SPIE Photonics West on January 27, 2010 to honor photonics innovation. Awards were presented to nine other products in eight other categories. “It is an honor to be recognized by SPIE with this Prism Award.” said Joe Schmitt, Chief Technology Officer of LightLab Imaging. “This shows how ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   LightLab Imaging   Lightlab C7 XR OCT Imaging System   Joseph M. Schmitt

14. Detection of Macular Ganglion Cell Loss in Glaucoma by Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 23 2010) Ophthalmology
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 1/24/10: David Huang was one of the co-inventors of Optical Coherence Tomography and has continued to do pioneering research in OCT from his early days doing PhD work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to his current position as a professor of ophthalmology at the Keck (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   University of Pittsburgh   David Huang   Joel S. Schuman

15. Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography for the Rapid Estimation of Epidermal Thickness

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 16 2010) Dermatology , Glucose
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 1/17/10: A number of recent developments in non-invasive physiological monitoring of the human body have demonstrated a high potential for the use of such techniques in the in vivo estimation of various clinically relevant parameters such as haemoglobin content and its’ oxygen (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Heliotis AG   Andreas Caduff   Isabel Kolm

16. Announcement of Michelson-Diagnostics OCT-News Student Travel Grant Winner

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 6 2010) Neurology
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    On November 4th OCT News in partnership with Michelson Diagnostics and funded by a generous donation from Michelson Diagnostics, announced a $1,500 student travel grant opportunity. We received numerous submissions all of which displayed outstanding work. The awards were ranked by OCT News, Michelso (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   B. Hyle Park   Yan Wang   UC Riverside

17. Despite Economic Crisis, OCT Market Grows in 2009, Reaching $315 Million

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 5 2010) Other Business News

    January 6, 2010—Mountain View, CA—Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is continuing its rapid expansion as a fast, high-resolution imaging tool for clinical diagnostics.  Systems sales grew in 2009, despite the economic crisis, with compound annual growth rate of 20% expected through 2014.  The (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Carl Zeiss Meditec   Gregory Smolka

18. Happy New Year to OCT News Users!

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Jan 1 2010)
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    I would like to wish all the users of OCT News a Happy New Year and thank all of you for the support OCT News has received in 2009.  The popularity of the website has grown dramatically since it started in October 2007.  This can be measured in terms of the large number of users subscribed to the (Read Full Article)
    

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19. Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Study Wood and Wood Finishes on an 18th century Italian violin

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Dec 13 2009) Art
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 12/13/09: When available, non-contact, non-destructive and in situ techniques are very much favoured to study the cultural heritage artefacts that are precious witnesses of the past, by limiting the number of micro-samples. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is then especially at (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pierre & Marie Curie University   Mady Elias   Gaël Latour

20. Cascaded Wavelength Swept Amplified Spontaneous Emission Source for Optical Coherence Tomography

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Dec 6 2009) Tunable Sources
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 12/6/09: Due to increasing interest in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) using wavelength swept lasers (SS-OCT), huge efforts have been made by both research and commercial organizations around the world to push the performance of such sources and with it OCT system capabilities (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Robert A. Huber   Wolfgang Wieser   Ludwig Maximilians Universität München

21. Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of healthy skin, actinic skin and NMSC lesions

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Nov 28 2009) Dermatology , Oncology
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 11/29/09: Optical coherence tomography applications in dermatology have faced somewhat of a challenge since, from some perspectives, skin was designed to keep light out. Skin cancer is a common form of cancer and although it is not in the top ten cancer killers, there are a large (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Thorlabs   Maria Ziolkowska   Carsten M. Philipp

22. Michelson Diagnostics Wins Grant for Miniature OCT Probe Development

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Nov 23 2009) Other Non-Medical , Funding

    Michelson Diagnostics Ltd , the London, UK based developer and manufacturer of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) products, has won a £25,000 grant from the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The grant is for a study into the feasibility of highly miniaturised OCT probes for cancer diagnoses. According to TSB data, seven hundred applications for funding were received, and Michelson Diagnostics application was one of just sixty-nine to be funded. Jon Holmes, CEO of Michelson Diagnostics, explained that the funded project will help Michelson determine which technologies to use in the development of practical rigid and/or flexible OCT probes, for ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Michelson Diagnostics   Michelson Diagnostics Vivosight   Jon Holmes

23. Development of Optical Coherence Tomography Point-Spread Function Test Artifacts

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Nov 21 2009)
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 11/22/09: The Biophotonics group of the UK National Physical Laboratory is working on methods and phantoms to help with the uptake of OCT technology in to the medical and other industrial sectors. They are looking at the requirements for consistent and robust characterization methods to determine the fundamental system performance of OCT systems. An important baseline metric in this respect is the system 3D point-spread function (PSF) that ultimately limits the optical resolution of an instrument. Conventionally the lateral and axial resolutions can be determined independently for instance using reflective interfaces or optical test-charts respectively. The ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pete H. Tomlins   UK National Physical Laboratory   Peter D. Woolliams

24. A Comparison between Optical Coherence Tomography and Histology of Laryngeal Epithelial Thickness

    Explore Article Optical Coherence Tomography News (Nov 15 2009)
    by Eric Swanson (eric)

    Feature Of The Week 11/15/09: While applications of optical coherence tomography in ophthalmology and cardiology have very successfully transitioned from the research world to the commercial world many other fields have lagged behind. One such area is the field of Otolaryngology. While much of the t (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zhongping Chen   Shuguang Guo   UC Irvine

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