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ABSTRACT: The potential of OCT applied to noninvasive blood glucose monitoring has attracted significant efforts. In this work we investigated the feasibility of OCT in monitoring blood glucose during oral intake of different sugars in humans. Five groups of experiments were performed, in which different sugars were used. The OCT signal slope (OCTSS) changed with variation of blood glucose concentration (BGC). A good correlation between OCTSS and BGC was observed in these experiments. The averaged correlation coefficients R between OCTSS and BGC are 0.900, 0.836, 0.895 and 0.884, corresponding to oral administration of glucose, fructose, sucrose and mixed sugar, respectively. Our studies demonstrated the capability and accuracy of the OCT system in monitoring BGC noninvasively and it could become a powerful tool in daily blood glucose monitoring for patients. (© 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim).
Journal of Biophotonics 12/2012; · 4.34 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of ultrasound-mediated analyte diffusion on permeability of normal, benign, and cancerous human lung tissue in vitro and to find more effective sonophoretic (SP) delivery in combination with the optical clearing agents (OCAs) method to distinguish normal and diseased lung tissues. The permeability coefficients of SP in combination with OCAs diffusion in lung tissue were measured with Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT). 30% glucose and SP with a frequency of 1 MHz and an intensity of 0.80 W/cm2 over a 3 cm probe was simultaneously applied for 15 min. Experimental results show that the mean permeability coefficients of 30% glucose/SP were found to be (2.01±0.21)×10-5 cm/s from normal lung (NL) tissue, (2.75±0.28)×10-5 cm/s from lung benign granulomatosis (LBG) tissue, (4.53±0.49)×10-5 cm/s from lung adenocarcinoma tumor (LAT) tissue, and (5.81±0.62)×10-5 cm/s from lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) tissue, respectively. The permeability coefficients of 30% glucose/SP increase approximately 36.8%, 125.4%, and 189.1% for the LBG, LAT, and LSCC tissue compared with that for the NL tissue, respectively. There were statistically significant differences in permeability coefficients of 30% glucose/SP between LBG and NL tissue (p<0.05), between LAT and NL tissue (p<0.05), and between LSCC and NL tissue (p<0.05). The results suggest that the OCT functional imaging technique to combine an ultrasound-OCAs combination method could become a powerful tool in early diagnosis and monitoring of changed microstructure of pathologic human lung tissue.
Journal of Biomedical Optics 11/2012; 17(11):116006. · 3.16 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Hyperosmotic agents have shown great potential in tissue optical clearing. However, the low efficiency of the permeation in biological tissues seriously restricts its application in reality. The synergy of sonophoresis as a penetration enhancer and hyperosmotic agents, 20% glucose (G) and 20% mannitol (M), in optical clearing has been investigated by analyzing the variation of the attenuation coefficients and the permeability coefficients. In the sonophoresis experiments, ultrasound (US) was applied for 10 min before applying hyperosmotic agents. Along with the administration of hyperosmotic agents, the samples were monitored with optical coherence tomography (OCT) functional imaging for the next 2 h. The attenuation coefficients of each group were obtained from the 2-D OCT images based on Beer's Law. The original attenuation coefficient is 12.38±0.73 cm-1 in normal breast tissue. After 45 min treatment, it changes to be 5.91±0.82 cm-1 and 4.14±0.67 cm-1 for 20% G and 20% G/US, respectively. The attenuation coefficient of breast cancer tissue is 18.17±1.45 cm-1 at the beginning, and it becomes 8.70±0.87 cm-1 for 20% G and 6.80±0.92 cm-1 for 20% G/US after 30 min. Meanwhile, the permeability coefficients of hyperosmotic agents were much enlarged by the treatment of ultrasound in both breast normal tissue and breast cancer tissue. A significant difference in permeability coefficients between health tissue and tumor tissue was also observed in the experiment (p<0.01).
Journal of Biomedical Optics 08/2012; 17(8):86002. · 3.16 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Effective attenuation coefficients and diffuse reflectance spectra of acupuncture point and non-acupuncture point were measured
in vivo before and after the brachial artery was constricted with a sphygmomanometer. Experimental results showed that the effective
attenuation coefficient of acupuncture point was smaller than that of non-acupuncture point. When the brachial artery was
constricted, the effective attenuation coefficients of acupuncture point and non-acupuncture point increased. Furthermore,
the increasing amplitude of effective attenuation coefficient of acupuncture point was smaller than that of the non-acupuncture
point. Diffuse reflectance of acupuncture point was lower than that of non-acupuncture point within the wavelength range of
470 to 600 nm. Both the diffuse reflectance of acupuncture point and non-acupuncture point decreased after the brachial artery
was constricted. These experimental results indicated that the optical characteristics of acupuncture point tissues were correlated
with the physiologic changes. Therefore, these optical characteristics of acupuncture points would be helpful to study the
mechanism of acupuncture meridian.
Keywordseffective attenuation coefficient–diffuse reflectance spectrum–acupuncture point–oxy-hemoglobin–brachial artery
Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China 04/2012; 4(2):223-227.
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ABSTRACT: A new concept and its methodology for studying human meridians are presented based on rigorous and scientific observation
on the objective existence of human meridians in view of biomedical optics. According to this methodology, the infrared radiant
characteristics of acupuncture meridians over human body and the optical transport properties of light propagating along the
meridian are reported. This study, thus, confirms the existence of acupuncture meridians, sheds new light on an approach to
investigation of human meridians and offers a new perspective in understanding the potential meridian functions such as energy
and information transfer and physiological regulation.
Science in China Series G Physics Mechanics and Astronomy 04/2012; 52(4):502-507. · 1.41 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The potential of OCT applied for early breast cancer detection attracted significant efforts. The permeability coefficients and the percentages of OCT signal enhancement for normal and cancerous breast tissues have been investigated from the experiments of 20% glucose, 40% glucose, and 20% mannitol in vitro. Obtained results indicate that the permeability coefficient in breast cancer tissue is prominently larger than that in normal breast tissue, while the optical clearing effect is just the reverse to that for each agent. The results suggest that OCT has the ability to distinguish cancer tissue from different aspect.
Journal of Biophotonics 12/2011; 5(7):536-43. · 4.34 Impact Factor
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Xiao Guo,
Guoyong Wu,
Huajiang Wei,
Xiaoyuan Deng, Hongqin Yang,
Yanhong Ji,
Yonghong He,
Zhouyi Guo,
Shusen Xie,
Huiqing Zhong,
Qingliang Zhao,
Zhenguo Zhu
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ABSTRACT: In this study, we report permeability coefficients of 30% glucose diffusion by the optical coherence tomography signal slope (OCTSS) method in four kinds of human lung tissue in vitro: normal lung tissue, benign granulomatosis lung tissue, squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma tumor. To quantify the permeability coefficient of the agent, the monitored region was 80 μm thickness at a tissue depth of ca 230 μm from the surface. The permeability coefficients of 30% glucose from 10 independent experiments were averaged and found to be (1.35 ± 0.13) × 10(-5) cm s(-1) from the normal lung tissue, (1.78 ± 0.21) × 10(-5) cm s(-1) from the benign granulomatosis lung tissue, (2.88 ± 0.19) × 10(-5) cm s(-1) from the adenocarcinoma tumor and (3.53 ± 0.25) × 10(-5) cm s(-1) from the squamous cell carcinoma, respectively. It could be clearly seen that the permeability coefficients of 30% glucose increase ca 32%, 113% and 162% in the benign granulomatosis, adenocarcinoma tumor and squamous cell carcinoma of human lung tissue compared with that from the normal lung tissue, respectively. Therefore, we inferred from this pilot study that the OCT imaging is a feasible method to distinguish normal and cancer lung tissue.
Photochemistry and Photobiology 12/2011; 88(2):311-6. · 2.41 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Depth-resolved monitoring with differentiation and quantification of glucose diffusion in healthy and abnormal esophagus tissues has been studied in vitro. Experiments have been performed using human normal esophagus and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) tissues by the optical coherence tomography (OCT). The images have been continuously acquired for 120 min in the experiments, and the depth-resolved and average permeability coefficients of the 40 % glucose solution have been calculated by the OCT amplitude (OCTA) method. We demonstrate the capability of the OCT technique for depth-resolved monitoring, differentiation, and quantifying of glucose diffusion in normal esophagus and ESCC tissues. It is found that the permeability coefficients of the 40 % glucose solution are not uniform throughout the normal esophagus and ESCC tissues and increase from (3.30 ± 0.09) × 10-6 and (1.57 ± 0.05) × 10-5 cm s-1 at the mucous membrane of normal esophagus and ESCC tissues to (1.82 ± 0.04) × 10-5 and (3.53 ± 0.09) × 10-5 cm s-1 at the submucous layer approximately 742 μm away from the epithelial surface of normal esophagus and ESCC tissues, respectively.
Quantum Electronics 11/2011; 41(10):950. · 0.83 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The objective of this work is to quantify and compare the optical clearing efficacy of glucose, propylene glycol, glycerol solutions through the human skin tissue in vivo by calculating permeability coefficient of three solutions. Currently, the permeability coefficient of agent in tissues was extracted from optical coherence tomography (OCT) amplitude data mainly through the OCT signal slope and the OCT amplitude methods. In this study, we report the OCT attenuation coefficient method which is a relatively novel and rarely reported methodology to measure the permeability coefficient during the optical skin clearing procedure. The permeability coefficients for 40% propylene glycol, glucose and glycerol were (2.74 ± 0.05) × 10(-6) cm s(-1), (1.78 ± 0.04) × 10(-6) cm s(-1) and (1.67 ± 0.04) × 10(-6) cm s(-1), respectively. It could be clearly seen that the permeability coefficient of the 40% propylene glycol solution is higher than that of 40% glucose solution, and the permeability coefficient of the 40% glucose solution is higher than that of the 40% glycerol solution. These indicate 40% propylene glycol solution is more effective than others in the human skin in vivo. We then compare and prove consistency of optical clearing efficacy figured out by three different methods.
Photochemistry and Photobiology 02/2011; 87(3):734-40. · 2.41 Impact Factor
