The Use of Supercontinuum Laser Sources in Biomedical Diffuse Optics: Unlocking the Power of Multispectral Imaging

Optical techniques based on diffuse optics have been around for decades now and are making their way into the day-to-day medical applications. Even though physics foundations of these known many years, practical implementation technique were hindered by technological limitations, mainly from light sources and/or detection electronics. In past 20 developments supercontinuum laser (SCL) enabled to unlock some enabling development system methodologies relevant use, notably in terms spectral monitoring. this review, we focus use SCL biomedical optics, instrumentation methods A total 95 publications identified, 1993 2021. We discuss advantages cover a large bandwidth with high power fast switching against disadvantages cost, bulkiness, long warm up times. Finally, summarize utility using such application sciences clinical