Tooth enamel is almost completely transparent in the near-infrared. We showed that you could take an OCT image of a lesion and tell how severe it is. Previously the only option was to extract the tooth and cut it open for closer inspection. Dental decay isn't like cancer. You can actually treat it, arrest it and even reverse it. If you spot the lesions early enough, you can treat them with fluoride and re-mineralize them, and you can measure this with OCT. It gives the clinician a way of telling whether the chemical intervention is working.
That's why these correlations are important, so that in the future we can be confident regarding the relationship of OCT to MRI, and perhaps be able to use OCT as an additional tool more upfront to help in the diagnosis.
Due to our limited laboratory space in the old facility, we often had to use individual work stations for multiple orders, overlapping manufacturing steps and even R&D tasks.
Due to lack of visual feedback, failure rates are often high, leading to multiple needle insertions...Side effects of these failures can include trauma to blood vessels and punctures in the dura, the outermost membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord...An OCT forward-imaging probe can provide anesthesiologists with real-time visualization of the microarchitecture of tissues and important landmarks, and thus could significantly improve the accuracy and the safety of the needle-based procedure.
An OCT forward-imaging probe can provide anesthesiologists with real-time visualization of the microarchitecture of tissues and important landmarks, and thus could significantly improve the accuracy and the safety of the needle-based procedure.
The broad set of measurements provided by the system, including angiography, oximetry and red blood cell flow rates enables the direct assessment of tissue oxygen metabolism, which is essential for understanding the evolution of oxygen supply and demand in numerous disease models.
