Efficient Photosensitizers for Trans-illumination and Optical Imaging

Author

Giakos, G.C. ; Bathini, P. ; Valluru, K. ; Paturi, S. ; Ambadipudi, K. ; Sukumar, S. ; Mandadi, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Akron Akron, Akron, OH

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 May 2008

Firstpage

1793

Lastpage

1797

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore novel concepts of light enhancement mechanisms and trans-illumination imaging techniques. Specifically, the impact of glucose molecules, amino acids and other polar molecules on the light beam profile enhancement characteristics of a trans-illumination system, such as beam intensity, contrast resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and signal- to-background ratio have been studied, under a variety of experimental scenarios. The outcome of this study can be extended to a variety of clinical and diagnostic applications and techniques.

Keywords

bio-optics; biochemistry; biological tissues; biomedical measurement; biomedical optical imaging; molecular biophysics; photochemistry; amino acids; beam intensity; clinical applications; contrast resolution; efficient photosensitizers; glucose molecules; light enhancement mechanisms; optical imaging technique; polar molecules; signal-to-background ratio; signal-to-noise ratio; trans-illumination imaging techniques; Biomedical optical imaging; Doping; Optical devices; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Proteins; Sugar; efficient photosensitizers; high contrast; high signal-to noise ratio; optically active media doping; trans-illumination systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2008. IMTC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1540-3

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547335

Filename

4547335