Differentiating functional brain regions using optical coherence tomography (Conference Presentation)

Author(s):  
Daniel A. Gil ◽  
Hansen C. Bow ◽  
Jin-H. Shen ◽  
Karen M. Joos ◽  
Melissa C. Skala
2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (21) ◽  
pp. 4911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shau Poh Chong ◽  
Conrad W. Merkle ◽  
Dylan F. Cooke ◽  
Tingwei Zhang ◽  
Harsha Radhakrishnan ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Gesperger ◽  
Antonia Lichtenegger ◽  
Thomas Roetzer ◽  
Marco Augustin ◽  
Danielle J. Harper ◽  
...  

One key hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the accumulation of extracellular amyloid-beta protein in cortical regions of the brain. For a definitive diagnosis of AD, post-mortem histological analysis, including sectioning and staining of different brain regions, is required. Here, we present optical coherence tomography (OCT) as a tissue-preserving imaging modality for the visualization of amyloid-beta plaques and compare their contrast in intensity- and polarization-sensitive (PS) OCT. Human brain samples of eleven patients diagnosed with AD were imaged. Three-dimensional PS-OCT datasets were acquired and plaques were manually segmented in 500 intensity and retardation cross-sections per patient using the freely available ITK-SNAP software. The image contrast of plaques was quantified. Histological staining of tissue sections from the same specimens was performed to compare OCT findings against the gold standard. Furthermore, the distribution of plaques was evaluated for intensity-based OCT, PS-OCT and the corresponding histological amyloid-beta staining. Only 5% of plaques were visible in both intensity and retardation segmentations, suggesting that different types of plaques may be visualized by the two OCT contrast channels. Our results indicate that multicontrast OCT imaging might be a promising approach for a tissue-preserving visualization of amyloid-beta plaques in AD.


2009 ◽  
Vol 178 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Aaron D. Aguirre ◽  
Lana Ruvinskaya ◽  
Anna Devor ◽  
David A. Boas ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (0) ◽  
pp. _J022021-1-_J022021-4
Author(s):  
Yu NAKAMICHI ◽  
Valery A. KALATSKY ◽  
Hideyuki WATANABE ◽  
Uma Maheswari RAJAGOPALAN ◽  
Manabu TANIFUJI

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 358-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Lee ◽  
Alek Mishail ◽  
Jason M. Kim ◽  
Alexander Kirshenbaum ◽  
Howard L. Adler ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 395-395
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Tresser ◽  
Elena V. Zagaynova ◽  
Olga S. Streltsova ◽  
Natalia D. Gladkova ◽  
Vladislav A. Kamensky ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 68-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus D. Sachs ◽  
Dmitry Daniltchenko ◽  
Eva Lankenau ◽  
Frank Koenig ◽  
Gerion Huettmann ◽  
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