biomedical applications
From Garofalakis et al, Phys. Med. Biol. (2005). This figure shows the correlation of the reduced scattering coefficient with thickness, for fatty (triangles), normal glandular (open circles) and tumour tissues (squares). The shaded area represents the region where the theory does not hold.
From the begging of my Phd I have been very interested in the biomedical applications of light, i.e. the field of Biomedical Optics. My main interests are the use of light for biopsy characterization, detection and diagnosis of cancer and detection and diagnosis of arthritis.
Some publications in this area are:
:: X. Intes, J. Ripoll, Y. Chen, S. Nioka, A. G. Yodh and B. Chance, “In vivo continous-wave optical breast imaging enhanced with Indocyanine Green”, Med. Phys. 30(6), pp. 1039-1047 (2003).
:: A. Garofalakis, G. Zacharakis, G. Filippidis, V. Ntziachristos, E. Sanidas, D. D. Tsiftsis, T. G Papazolgou and J. Ripoll, “Optical characterization of thin scattering samples”, J. Opt. A. 6, pp. 725-735 (2004)
:: A. Garofalakis, G. Zacharakis, G. Filippidis, E. Sanidas, D. D. Tsiftsis, E. Stathopoulos, M. Kafousi, J. Ripoll and T. G Papazolgou, “Optical characterization of thin female breast biopsies based on the reduced scattering coefficient”, Phys. Med. Biol. 50(11), p. 2583-96 (2005)
