Title :
Real time monitoring of renal ischemic injury via optical spectroscopy
Author :
Demos, S.G. ; Fitzgerald, J.T. ; Michalopoulou, A.P. ; Troppmann, C.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA, USA
Abstract :
We investigate optical spectroscopy methods to correlate with warm ischemia time in hypothermically preserved rat kidneys and in vivo. The objective is to find a practical method for analyzing organ warm ischemic damage before transplantation.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; biothermics; image enhancement; kidney; spectroscopy; analyzing organ; optical spectroscopy; practical method; rat kidney; real time monitoring; renal ischemic injury; transplantation; Biomedical optical imaging; Injuries; Ischemic pain; Light scattering; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8306-0
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338663
