Title :
Minimally-invasive optical imaging for surgical guidance and neuroscience research
Author :
Yu Chen ; Chia-Pin Liang ; Qinggong Tang
Author_Institution :
Fischell Dept. of Bioeng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We developed needle-based (21 gauge) optical imaging systems to extract structural, functional and Doppler information, which not only provides surgery guidance but also allows us to access deep brain tissues for neuroscience research.
Keywords :
Doppler measurement; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; brain; image reconstruction; medical image processing; needles; neurophysiology; optical tomography; surgery; Doppler information; deep brain tissues; functional information; minimally-invasive optical imaging; needle-based optical imaging systems; neuroscience research; structural information; surgical guidance; Fluorescence; Lenses; Needles; Optical imaging; Probes; Surgery; Medical and biological imaging; Optical coherence tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fuzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5454-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICAIT.2014.7019539