An optical medical instrument that uses an intense, precisely focused beam of light to stop weakened blood vessels from hemorrhaging. The thermal effect of the beam strengthens the weakened vessels and halts any uncontrolled growth. The instrument...

A device that uses a photoelectric cell to determine the level of oxygenation in the blood.

An infrared light-emitting diode (IR LED) is a semiconductor device that emits infrared light when an electric current...

Excimer laser coronary angioplasty (ELCA) refers to a medical procedure used in the treatment of coronary artery disease....

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive neuroimaging technique that measures changes in hemoglobin...

A medical imaging method in which gamma camera heads rotate about the patient to detect radionuclides, enabling physicians...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive optical technique used to detect changes in blood volume in tissues. It...

An excimer laser is a type of ultraviolet laser that emits short pulses of light in the ultraviolet spectrum. The term...

The use of a surgical laser instead of sutures or staples to close a wound or rejoin severed blood vessels.

Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is a molecular biology technique used to rapidly amplify specific DNA or RNA...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique used in medical and scientific fields to capture...

Laser surgery refers to a medical procedure in which a laser, or focused beam of light, is used as a precision tool to cut,...

A fiber optic sensor is a device that uses optical fibers to detect and measure physical, chemical, biological, or...

A biomarker, short for biological marker, refers to a measurable and quantifiable indicator of a biological condition,...

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive analytical technique that uses the near-infrared region of the...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique used in medical diagnostics and biomedical research to obtain...

Time-lapse optical coherence tomography (OCT) refers to a medical imaging technique that captures a series of sequential OCT...

Filoviruses are a family of viruses that are responsible for severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fevers in humans and...

Intravital microscopy is an imaging technique used to visualize biological processes within living organisms, typically in...

In biology, particularly genetics and evolutionary biology, the phenotype refers to the observable characteristics or traits...

Also known as OCT-A, optical coherence tomography angiography is an imaging technique that uses light waves to measure...

Microscopy is a scientific technique that involves the use of microscopes to observe and study objects that are too small to...

A near-infrared (NIR) camera is an imaging device designed to capture images in the near-infrared region of the...

A self-interference effect that generates random patterns; secondary speckle pattern (SSP) typically occurs in diffuse...

Histochemical staining is a laboratory technique used in biology and medicine to visualize specific chemical components...

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are ordinary cells that are genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like...

Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary field that involves the manipulation and control of very small fluid volumes, typically...