Slayton, M. H., & Barton, J. K. (2014). Healing Tissue Response with ITU (Intense Therapy Ultrasound) in Musculoskeletal Tissue, Feasibility Study. 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM (IUS), 1654-1657.
Gelsinger-Austin, P. J., Luo, Y., Watson, J. M., Kostuk, R. K., Barbastathis, G., Barton, J. K., & Castro, J. M. (2010). Optical design for a spatial-spectral volume holographic imaging system. OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 49(4).
Barton, J., Winkler, A. M., Bonnema, G. T., & Barton, J. K. (2011). Optical polarimetry for noninvasive glucose sensing enabled by Sagnac interferometry. Applied optics, 50(17).
Optical polarimetry is used in pharmaceutical drug testing and quality control for saccharide-containing products (juice, honey). More recently, it has been proposed as a method for noninvasive glucose sensing for diabetic patients. Sagnac interferometry is commonly used in optical gyroscopes, measuring minute Doppler shifts resulting from mechanical rotation. In this work, we demonstrate that Sagnac interferometers are also sensitive to optical rotation, or the rotation of linearly polarized light, and are therefore useful in optical polarimetry. Results from simulation and experiment show that Sagnac interferometers are advantageous in optical polarimetry as they are insensitive to net linear birefringence and alignment of polarization components.
Slayton, M., & Barton, J. (2014). FEASIBILITY OF MODULATING HEALING TISSUE RESPONSE BY ITU (INTENSE THERAPY ULTRASOUND) IN MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE. LASERS IN SURGERY AND MEDICINE, 46, 55-55.
Linehan, J. A., Bracamonte, E. R., Hariri, L. P., Sokoloff, M. H., Rice, P. S., Barton, J. K., & Nguyen, M. M. (2011). Feasibility of optical coherence tomography imaging to characterize renal neoplasms: limitations in resolution and depth of penetration. BJU international, 108(11), 1820-4.
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Optical coherence tomography has been used for the diagnosis of retinal disease and has been used experimentally for imaging of vascular plaques, gastrointestinal pathology, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and recently to examine benign kidney microanatomy. It has not been previously used to image kidney cancer. This study presents the first data on the utility of OCT in the imaging for renal neoplasms. It found that OCT was most successful in distinguishing AML and TCC from normal parenchyma. OCT had more limited success at differentiating oncocytoma. Clear cell tumors and other renal cancer subtypes had a more heterogenous appearance, precluding reliable identification using OCT. The study shows that higher resolution versions of OCT, such as OCM, will be needed to allow optical coherence imaging to reach clinical utility in the assessment of renal neoplasms.