Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11104616
Keywords
supercontinuum laser; NIRS; tissue optics; diffuse optics
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- Medical Research Council [MR/S003134/1]
- MRC [MR/S003134/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Diffuse optics techniques have been increasingly used in medical applications, with the development of supercontinuum laser (SCL) overcoming some of the limitations. Despite the drawbacks of SCL, its utility in biomedical sciences and clinical applications has been demonstrated.
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 the physics foundations of these techniques have been known for many years, practical implementation of these technique were hindered by technological limitations, mainly from the light sources and/or detection electronics. In the past 20 years, the developments of supercontinuum laser (SCL) enabled to unlock some of these limitations, enabling the development of system and methodologies relevant for medical use, notably in terms of spectral monitoring. In this review, we focus on the use of SCL in biomedical diffuse optics, from instrumentation and methods developments to their use for medical applications. A total of 95 publications were identified, from 1993 to 2021. We discuss the advantages of the SCL to cover a large spectral bandwidth with a high spectral power and fast switching against the disadvantages of cost, bulkiness, and long warm up times. Finally, we summarize the utility of using such light sources in the development and application of diffuse optics in biomedical sciences and clinical applications.
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