1. Comparison of PDT Efficiencies for Photooxidation of Substrate (NADPH) and Photobleaching of Photosensitizer (Photofrin II)
   Paulo R. Bargo and Steven L. Jacques
   Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Oregon Medical Laser Center, USA
   Parmeswaran Diagaradjane
   Division of Medical Physics & Lasers, Department of Physics, Anna University, INDIA
   
2. High Speed, High Resolution, Phase Resolved Optical Doppler Tomography
   Yonghua Zhao, Zhongping Chen, Christopher Saxer, Johannes de Boer and
   J. Stuart Nelson
   Beckman Laser Institute of Medical Clinic, University of California-Irvine, USA
   
3. Finite-Difference Modeling of Thermal Camera Temperature Measurements During Laser Irradiation
   Bernard Choi, John A. Pearce, and Ashley J. Welch
   Biomedical Engineering Laser Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
   
4. Optical Coherence Tomography in Dentistry
   Bill Colston, Ujwal Sathyam, and Matthew Everett
   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
   Linda Otis
   University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
   
5. Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Tumours Through the Combined Use of Optical Biopsy and Interstitial Laser Photocoagulation
   Paul M. Ripley
   Department of Medical Physics, University College of London, UNITED KINGDOM
   G. Briggs and S.G. Brown
   National Medical Laser Centre, University College of London, UNITED KINGDOM
   J.R. Mourant and I.J. Bigio
   Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
   
6. A Computational Study of Laser Treatment of Port Wine Stains With Cryogen Spray Cooling
   T. Joshua Pfefer, Thomas E. Milner and A.J. Welch
   Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Derek J. Smithies and J. Stuart Nelson
   Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California-Irvine, USA
   
7. Light Scattering From Cervical Cells: Modeling, Measurements, and Methods to Enhance Nuclear Scattering
   Rebekah Drezek, Andres Zuluaga, Tom Collier and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
   University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Calum MacAulay
   British Columbia Cancer Center, CANADA
   
8. Simultaneous Fluorescence and Sub-Surface Structural Measurements: Multi-Functional Optical Probing With Spatially Resolved Spectral Interferometry (SRSI)
   Andres F. Zuluaga, and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
   The University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Calum MacAulay
   Bristish Columbia Cancer Agency, CANADA
   
9. ND-YAG and CO₂ Laser Irradiation of Apex in Endodontic Microsurgery
   Sebastiano Tosto
   ENEA Casaccia, Innovation Department, ITALY
   Noberto Berna and Marco Melis
   Roma University, ITALY
   
10. Photo-Thermal Profiling of Vascular Lesions Utilizing Two Excitation Wavelengths
    Boris Majaron, Wim Verkruysse and J. Stuart Nelson
    Beckman Laser Institute of Medical Clinic, University of California at Irvine, USA
    Tom Milner
    Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Texas, USA
    Sam Tanenbaum
    Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, USA
    
11. Photodynamic Therapy of Age Related Macular Degeneration Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutic Results
    Hubert van den Bergh and J.-P. Ballini
    EPFL DGR/LPAS, SWITZERLAND
    M. Sickenberg, Jules Gonin
    Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
    
12. Photodynamic Therapy and Photodetection of Early Cancer in the Urinary Bladder Using the Hexyl Ester of Ala
    Hubert van den Bergh and N. Lange
    EPFL DGR/LPAS, SWITZERLAND
    P. Jichlinski
    Urology, CHUV Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
    
13. Imaging at Multiple Frequencies Using Amplitude Only: A Surprisingly Beneficial Approach
    Vasilis Ntziachristos, A.G. Yodh and Britton Chance
    University of Pensylvania, USA
    
14. Caries Detection Using Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography
    Ujwal S. Sathyam, Matthew J. Everett, Bill W. Colston, Jr., and Luiz B. Da Silva
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    
15. Quantifying the Importance of High Angle Scattering Events to Light-Transport Throught Turbid Media Measured in a Backscattering Geometry
    Murat Canpolat and Judith R. Mourant
    Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    
16. Frequency-Domain Radiative Transport in Turbid Media at Small-Source Detector Separations
    Vasan Venugopalan, Joon S. You and Bruce J. Tromberg
    University of California at Irvine, USA
    
17. Diagnosis of Ocular Surface Neoplasia by Optical Spectral Analysis
    Steven Chalfin, and Randolph D. Glickman
    Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
    
18. Spatial Discrimination of Optically Induced Acoustic Sources in Tissue Phantoms Using Matched Field Processing
    John A. Viator, Steve L. Jacques and Scott A. Prahl
    Oregon Medical Laser Center, USA
    
19. Chemometric Extraction of Optical Properties and Chromophore Concentrations From Frequency Domain Photon Migration Data
    Andrew J. Berger, Vasan Venugopalan, Anthony J. Durkin, Tuan H. Pham, and
    Bruce Tromberg
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
    
20. Opto-Acoustic Monitoring of Blood Glucose
    Alexander A. Oraevsky, Andrey Bednov, Kirill Larin and Alexander Karabutov
    University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
    
21. Burn Diagnosis by Diffuse Photon-Density Wave Reflectance Measurements
    Thorsten Spott* and Lars O. Svaasand
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY
    *Currently at Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
    Tuan Pham and Bruce J. Tromberg
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
    
22. Opto-Acoustic Cell Permeation
    Steven R. Visuri
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    
23. Polarization Spectroscopy of Cervical Epithelium for Pre-Cancer Detection
    Konstantin Sokolov, Kirk Gossage, Rebekah Drezek and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
    Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
    
24. Polarized Light Propagation Through Tissue and Tissue Phantoms
    Vanitha Sankaran and Duncan J. Maitland
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    Joseph T. Walsh, Jr., Northwestern University, USA
    
25. Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy in Turbid Media
    Andrew Dunn, Vincent Wallace, Mariah Coleno and Bruce Tromberg
    Beckman Laser Institute, University of California-Irvine, USA
26. Microstructure Imaging of in Vivo Human Skin Tissue By Optical Coherence Tomography
    S.H. Xiang, Y. Zhao, S. Chen and J.S. Nelson
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California at Irvine, USA
    
27. Monte Carlo Modeling of Polarized Light Propagation in Multiple Scattering Media
    Sebastian Bartel and A.H. Hielscher
    State University of New York, USA
    
28. In Vivo Reflectance Spectroscopy of Ovarian Tissue
    Urs Utzinger, and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
    Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Molly Brewer
    Department of Gynecology, The University of Texas Medical School, USA
    
29. Near IR Diffuse Light Studies of Blood Flow and Hemoglobin Saturation in Mice Tumors During Photodynamic Therapy
    Joseph P. Culver, Cecil Cheung and Arjun Yodh
    Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Cindy Skema and Joseph Freidberg
    Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    
30. Bridging the Gap Between Photon Migration Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy
    Britton Chance and S. Zhou
    University of Pennsylvania, USA
    K. Kang
    University of Maryland, USA
    
31. Spectral Variation of Infrared Absorption Coefficient in Pulsed Photothermal Profiling of Biological Tissue
    Wim Verkruysse, Boris Majaron and J. Stuart Nelson
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
    B. Samuel Tanenbaum
    Harvey Mudd College, USA
    Thomas E. Milner
    University of Texas at Austin, USA
    
32. The Combination of Fluorescence and Reflectance Spectroscopies as a Tool for the Detection of Premalignacies in the Esophagus and the Stomach
    Irene Georgakoudi, Qingguo Zhang, Markus G. Müeller and Michael S. Feld
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, USA
    Brian C. Jacobson, Jonathan Glickman and Jacques Van Dam
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
    
33. Quantification of Fetal Cerebral Blood Oxygenation in Utero by Frequency Domain NIR Spectroscopy: Semi-Infinite & Two-Layer Approximation
    Regine Choe and A.G. Yodh
    Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Gargi Vishnoi, Nirmala Ramanujam and Britton Chance
    Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    
34. Clinical Characterization of Colonic Mucosal Lesions in Vivo Using Autofluorescence and Delta-Aminolevulinic Acid Sensitization
    Charlotta Eker, Stefan Andersson-Engels and Katarina Svanberg
    Lund University Medical Laser Centre, Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
    Edgar Jaramillo and Eduard Jonas
    Division of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, SWEDEN
    
35. Multi-Wavelength Determination of Fat Optical Properties Using Frequency Domain Photon Migration
    Charlotta Eker
    Lund University Medical Centre, Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
    Natasha Shah, Tuan Pham and Bruce Tromberg
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California at Irvine, USA
    
36. Depth-Resoveld Birefringence Imaging in the Eye With Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography
    Mathieu G. Ducros, H. Grady Rylander and Thomas E. Milner
    Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Johannes F. de Boer and Huai-En Huang
    Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
    
37. Algorithms for 3D Localization and Imaging Using Near-Field Diffraction Tomography with Diffuse Light
    Turgut Durduran, J.P. Culver, M.J. Holboke, X.D. Li , Leonid Zubkov, Deva N. Pattanayak and A.G. Yodh
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    B. Chance
    Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    
38. Detector and Calibration Studies for UV Laser Induced Fluorescence Detection of Trace Chemical Concentrations in Aqueous Solutions
    Dennis K. Killinger and Vasanthi Sivaprakasam
    Department of Physics, University of South Florida, USA
    
39. Compact Medical Fluosensor for Minimally Invasive Tissue Characterisation
    Stefan Andersson-Engels, Claes af Klinteberg, Markus Andreasson, Ola Sandström and Sune Svanberg
    Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
    
40. NIR Spectroscopic Studies of Fetal Brain In-Utero: Evaluation of Sensitivity and Accuracy of the System to the Fetal Cerebral Blood Saturation
    Gargi Vishnoi, Nirmala Ramanujam, Shoko Nioka and Britton Chance
    School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Andreas H. Hielscher
    Department of Pathology, State University of New York, USA
    
41. Polarized Light Scattering Spectroscopy for Diagnosis of Precancer
    Rajan S. Gurjar
    George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    L.T. Perelman, Vadim Backman, Irving Itzkan, R.R. Dasari and M.S. Feld
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    Kamran Badizadegan
    Children's Hospital, USA
    
42. Characterizing the Properties of Two-Layered Turbid Media Using Multi-Distance, Multi-Frequency Diffuse Reflectance Measurements
    Tuan H. Pham and Bruce Tromberg
    Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP), Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California at Irvine, USA
    Thorsten Spott and Lars O. Svaasand
    Department of Physical Electronics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY
    
43. Dynamic Tomographic Imaging of Vascular Reperfusion
    Christoph H. Schmitz, Harry L. Graber and Randall L. Barbour
    SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA
    
44. Polarized, Wavelength Dependent Elastic-Scatter Spectra
    Judith R. Mourant and Tamara M. Johnson
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    
45. Two-Photon Excited Imaging of Tissue Remodeling
    Vincent P. Wallace, Mariah L. Coleno, Chung-Ho Sun and Bruce J. Tromberg
    Beckman Laser Institute, University of California at Irvine, USA
    
46. Monte Carlo Simulations of Polarized Light Propagation in Microsphere Suspensions
    Duncan Maitland, Vanitha Sankaran, George Zimmerman and Richard London
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    
47. Measurements of the Optical Trap Stiffness: Two-Photon Fluorescence to the Rescue!
    Tatiana B. Krasieva, Ph.D., Andrew K. Dunn, Ph.D., Joon S. You and Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
    Beckman Laser Institute, University of California at Irvine, USA
48. MIT Laser Biomedical Research Center
    Lev T. Perelman, Qingguo Zhang, Irving Itzkan, Ramachandra R. Dasari and Michael S. Feld
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    
49. Functional Cerebral Activity Measurement by Diffusing Light
    Cecil Cheung and A.G. Yodh
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    K. Takahashi and J.H. Greenberg
    Cerebrovascular Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, USA
    
50. Spectral Analysis of Two Photon Excited Fret of GFP Fusion Proteins
    Vickie J. LaMorte, Ph.D., Andrew Dunn, Ph.D., Mariah L Coleno, Vincent Wallace, Ph.D., Tatiana B. Krasieva, Ph.D., Gopy K. Manthripragada and Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
    Beckman Laser Institute, University of California at Irvine, USA
    
51. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease
    Eugene B. Hanlon, Irving Itzkan, Ramachandra R. Dasari and Michael S. Feld
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    Neil W. Kowall
    Boston University School of Medicine, USA
    
52. Near-Infrared Tomographic Imaging of Breast Lesions in Vivo
    Brian W. Pogue, Troy O. McBride, Ulf L. Osterberg and Keith D. Paulsen
    Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
    Steven P. Poplack
    Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
53. Endovascular Photodynamic Therapy to Prevent Intimal Hyperplasia After Vascular Interventions
    E.E.E. Gabeler MD, R. van Hillegersberg Ph.D. MD, W. Sluiter Ph.D., R.G. van Eps MD and H. van Urk Ph.D. MD
    

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