Photon migration through fetal head in utero using continuous wave, near infrared spectroscopy: Clinical and experimental model studies

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-184

  Ramanujam, Nirmala ^a   Vishnoi, Gargi ^a   Hielscher, Andreas ^b   Rode, Martha ^c   Forouzan, Iraj ^c   Chance, Britton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

CEREBRAL BLOOD OXYGENATION; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

FETAL MONITORING;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0034164351     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429984     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. M. M. Adams, "The continuing challenge of pre-term delivery," J. Am. Med. Assoc. 273(2), 739-740 (1995).
2. K. B. Nelson and J. H. Ellenberg, "Antecedents of cerebral palsy: Multivariate analysis of risk," New. Engl. J. Med. 315, 81-86 (1986).
3. C. P. Torfs, B. van den Berg, F. W. Occhsli, and S. Cummins, "Prenatal and perinatal factors in the etiology of cerebral palsy (see comments)," J. Pediatr. (St. Louis) 116, 615-619 (1990).
4. E. P. Schneider, J. M. Hutson, and R. H. Petrie, "An assessment of the first decade's experience with ante-partum fetal heart rate testing," Am. J. Perinatal 5, 134 (1988).
5. M. Helfand, and M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck, "Practice variation and the risk of low birth weight in a public prenatal care program," Medical Care 35(1), 16-31 (1997).
6. J. Lavery, "Nonstress fetal heart rate testing," Clin. Obstet. Gynecol. 25, 689 (1982).
7. F. A. Manning, C. R. Harman, and I. Morrison, "Fetal assessment based on fetal biophysical profile scoring," Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 162, 3 (1990).
8. B. Chance et al., "Time-resolved spectroscopy of hemoglobin and myoglobin in resting and ischemie muscle," Anal. Biochem. 174, 698-707 (1988).
9. S. Feng, F. Zeng, and B. Chance, "Photon migration in the presence of a single defect A perturbation analysis," Appl Opt. 34(19), 3826-3837 (1995).
10. Photon Migration Through Tissues, B. Chance, Ed., Plenum Press, New York (1996).
11. N. Ramanujam, H. Long, M. Rode, I. Forouzan, M. Morgan, and B. Chance, "Ante-partum transabdominal near infrared spectroscopy: feasibility of measuring photon migration through the fetal head in utero," J. Matern Fetal Med. 8, 275-288 (1999).
12. M. S. Patterson, J. D. Moulton, B. C. Wilson, K. W. Berndt, and J. R. Lakowicz, "Frequency domain reflectance for the determination of the scattering and absorption properties of tissue," Appl. Opt. 30(31), 4474-4476 (1991).
13. V. Ntziachristos, X. H. Ma, A. G. Yodh, and B. Chance. "Multichannel photon counting instrument for spatially resolved near infrared spectroscopy," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70(1), 193-201 (1999).
14. A. Duncan, J. H. Meek, M. Clemence, C. E. Elwell, L. Tyszczuk, M. Cope, and D. T. Delpy, "Optical pathlength measurements on adult head, calf and forearm and the head of the newborn infant, using phase resolved optical spectroscopy," Phys. Med. Biol 40(2), 295-304 (1995).
15. Biological Spectroscopy, I. D. Campbell and R. A. Dwek, Eds., Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., Menlo Park (1984).
16. G. Vishnoi, A. H. Hielscher, N. Ramanujam, and B. Chance, "Photon migration through the fetal head in utero using continuous wave, near infrared spectroscopy: development and evaluation of experimental and numerical models," in this issue.