Infrared thermal imaging (IRT) is a non-invasive, non-contact technique which allows one to measure and visualize infrared radiation. In medicine, thermal imaging has been used for more than 50 years in various clinical settings, including Raynaud's phenomenon and systemic sclerosis. Imaging and quantification of surface body temperature provides an indirect measure of the microcirculation's ov...

Introduction Since Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) was first reported in 1977 by Jobsis[1] as a new “window” into the body, it has found many uses within the biomedical field. Single channel near-infrared systems are most commonly used in clinical surroundings for transcranial cerebral oximetry in neonatal care, hematoma detection, and stroke patient monitoring. In addition to its clinical us...

This paper proposes a method of acquiring threedimensional shape data about moving objects based on stereo camera pairs of the color and the infrared by projecting infrared dot patterns. Most of the methods that project infrared pattern estimate a single depth map by measuring the translation of a known pattern with an infrared camera. The aim of the proposed method is to make 3D models by inte...

Combining the molecular specificity of the infrared spectral region with high resolution microscopy has been pursued by researchers for decades. Here we demonstrate infrared supercontinuum radiated from an optical fiber as a promising new light source for infrared microspectroscopy. The supercontinuum light source has a high brightness and spans the infrared region from 1400 nm to 4000 nm. This...

The interaction of infrared light with the human ocular fundus, particularly sub-retinal structures, was studied in vivo. Visible and infra-red wavelengths and a scanning laser ophthalmoscope were used to acquire digital images of the human fundus. The contrast and reflectance of selected retinal and sub-retinal features were computed for a series of wavelengths or modes of imaging. Near infrar...

Polarimetric imaging has proved its value in medical diagnostics, bionics, remote sensing, astronomy, and in many other wide fields. Pixel-level solid monolithically integrated polarimetric imaging photo-detectors are the trend for infrared polarimetric imaging devices. For better polarimetric imaging performance the high polarization discriminating detectors are very much critical. Here we dem...

The ability to visualize reporter gene expression in vivo has revolutionized all facets of biologic investigation and none more so than imaging applications in oncology. Near-infrared reporter gene imaging may facilitate more accurate evaluation of chemotherapeutic response in preclinical models of orthotopic and metastatic cancers. We report the development of a cell permeable, quenched squari...