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AI Accelerates Skin Lesion Identification
Historically, the gold standard for diagnostics in dermatology has been histopathology, which is the examination of tissues and cells under a microscope. The tissue sample that is extracted from the patient for this purpose, such as from a lesion or mole, is called a biopsy. It is a standard routine that clinicians carry out daily — but new advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning may be able to disrupt this process by drawing data from many contexts during image
BioPhotonics, Nov/Dec 2024
Optical Coherence Tomography Noninvasively Images Skin Structure
The skin is the largest organ of the body, serving as a protective layer against environmental factors that include infection, ultraviolet radiation, and temperature fluctuations. The skin is composed of three main layers — the epidermis,...
BioPhotonics, Nov/Dec 2024
Assessing the Extent of Laser Skin Damage
Lasers are currently used in many skin care applications, both medical and cosmetic. However, it is important to ensure proper handling and monitoring of the laser source to avoid damage to the skin tissue; in these applications, the laser beam is...
BioPhotonics, Nov/Dec 2024
Raman Spectroscopy-Based Detection of Skin Cancer to Guide Surgery
A research team at the University of Nottingham has developed an autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy technique that aims to streamline surgery to remove skin cancer. The technique has been trialed at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust....
BioPhotonics, Nov/Dec 2024
Optical Parametric Amplifiers: The Workhorse of Time-Resolved Studies
Scientific techniques, such as time-resolved spectroscopy and fluorescence, which contribute to advancements in biochemistry and biology applications as diverse as protein folding, tumor cell invasions, and neuron signaling, all require light that...
BioPhotonics, Sep/Oct 2024
Silicon-Based Photonics Platform Enables On-Chip Imaging with High Throughput
Integrated photonics provides a framework for high-throughput applications, such as DNA sequencing, proteomics, and cell therapy, bringing a high level of parallelization and sensitivity to these domains. A CMOS-compatible silicon nitride (SiN)...
BioPhotonics, Sep/Oct 2024
Engineering with DNA: Molecular Structure Guides Raman Spectroscopy
In biomedical applications, in which the target analyte is often at nanomolar or picomolar concentrations, the effectiveness of Raman spectroscopy is limited. This is due to the inherently weak Raman effect, where typically only one in 10 million...
BioPhotonics, Sep/Oct 2024
Microscope Stages Support Mapping the Inner Structure of Biological Systems
During the last two decades, research in the field of superresolution microscopy has been focused on incorporating different techniques to increase the spatial resolution in collected images. As these techniques have matured, this focus in...
BioPhotonics, Sep/Oct 2024
Objective Specifications Drive Performance in Biomedical and Life Sciences Research
Microscope objectives are critical for a vast range of biological imaging applications, such as isolating cellular dynamics and cancer diagnostics, but designing and building a microscope objective can be a complex and expensive endeavor (opening...
BioPhotonics, Jul/Aug 2024
FLIM Analysis Enhanced with Phasor Plotting Aids Quantitative Biology
With the peculiar selectivity of probes, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) can provide quantitative information about the probe microenvironment, including the presence of ions, pH, oxygen, viscosity, and electrical signals. This capability has...
BioPhotonics, Jul/Aug 2024
Raman Spectroscopy for Point-of-Care Blood Testing
Raman spectroscopy could soon aid traditional blood diagnostics at the patient’s bedside. Courtesy of iStock.com/Jacob Wackerhausen. Raman spectroscopy offers new possibilities for blood diagnostics, which is crucial for making timely...
Photonics Spectra, October 2024
STED Microscopy Uncovers Signals Between Molecules
Stimulation emission depletion (STED) microscopy is a mainstay in superresolution imaging, since scientists established its capability to drastically improve the lateral resolution present in traditional fluorescence microscopy. In recent years, it...
BioPhotonics, Jul/Aug 2024
As Biosensors Shrink, Their Potential Applications Grow
Early in his career, Benjamin Miller was focused on drug discovery and strategies for studying how potential medicines bind to their target proteins. There was only one problem: “All of the technology that was available for doing that was...
BioPhotonics, May/Jun 2024
Quantitative Phase Microscopy Tracks Drug Therapies
Examining the cycle of life through the lens of a microscope is a fundamental practice in biology. As researchers have delved deeper into the microscopic world, a pursuit for higher resolution has ensued, leading to discoveries about the smallest...
BioPhotonics, May/Jun 2024
Two-Photon Microscopy Provides Clear Guidance for Tumor Resection
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest malignancies, with an average five-year survival rate of only 12%1. Surgical resection of the tumor is often the only realistic approach to saving a pancreatic cancer patient, but only if the malignant...
BioPhotonics, May/Jun 2024
Double-Clad Fiber Couplers Enhance Multimodal OCT Results
Recent research efforts have aimed to enhance OCT’s information content by combining it with imaging modalities exploiting complementary optical contrasts. The design of optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems has evolved significantly in...
BioPhotonics, May/Jun 2024
Raman Spectroscopy Probes the Etiology of Amyloidogenic Disease
The urgent need for rationally designed treatments of Alzheimer’s disease and other amyloidogenic disorders is more relevant than ever; there is a predicted 7% increase of cases of Alzheimer’s by 2025 in people aged 65 and older, according to the...
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
Making the Photon Count in Confocal Microscopy
When used appropriately, a laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscope is a valuable tool for researchers to make quantitative measurements in cells and tissue across various life sciences applications. The laser scanning confocal...
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
Bringing Laser Speckle Imaging to the Point of Care
While laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) has historically been confined to a bulky benchtop configuration, multiple research teams have recently developed hand-held and wearable laser speckle systems. For these systems to be useful in a clinical...
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
Single Fiber Endoscopy Records Neural and Vascular Detail
The growing incidence of chronic diseases around the world has driven the expansion of techniques to provide diagnosis at the source, which would ideally involve a minimally invasive — but detail-rich — application of technology....
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
SPIE Names 2024 Prism Award Winners
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recognized the top innovations in new optics and photonics products at the 2024 Prism Awards held at Photonics West on Jan. 31. The gala event marked the Prism Awards’ 16th anniversary....
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
Stimulated Raman Photothermal Microscopy Provides Ultrahigh Sensitivity
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy has shown enormous potential in revealing molecular structures, dynamics, and couplings in complex systems. Yet, the sensitivity of SRS is fundamentally limited to millimolar level due to the shot noise...
BioPhotonics, Jan/Feb 2024
Optical Filters Narrow the Focus of Raman Biomedical Analysis
While Raman spectroscopy has long been useful in pharmaceutical analysis and the identification of hazardous materials, the technology’s usefulness in biomedicine has also been expanding due to less bulky, miniaturized instrumentation. Its...
BioPhotonics, Jan/Feb 2024
Virtual Histology: Democratizing Diagnostic Anatomic Pathology
Histology is the microscopic examination of stained and sectioned cells and tissue. Traditional histological examination requires a sequence of essential sample processing steps, including fixation, embedding, sectioning, and staining. In medicine,...
BioPhotonics, Jan/Feb 2024
Time-Domain Functional NIRS Traces Map of Brain Activity
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a noninvasive optical investigative technique in neurology to map localized brain activity, during which the brain signal is derived from measured changes in the oxidation levels of hemoglobin and the...
BioPhotonics, Jan/Feb 2024
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