John A. Viator

An effective strategy for the synthesis of biocompatible gold nanoparticles using cinnamon phytochemicals for phantom CT imaging and photoacoustic detection of cancerous cells.

Clinical testing of a photoacoustic probe for port wine stain depth determination.

Spectra from 2.5-15 microm of tissue phantom materials, optical clearing agents and ex vivo human skin: implications for depth profiling of human skin.

In vivo port-wine stain depth determination with a photoacoustic probe.

Increase of dermal blood volume fraction reduces the threshold for laser-induced purpura: implications for port wine stain laser treatment.

A comparative study of photoacoustic and reflectance methods for determination of epidermal melanin content.

Accurate measurement of blood vessel depth in port wine stained human skin in vivo using pulsed photothermal radiometry.

Influence of laser wavelength and pulse duration on gas bubble formation in blood filled glass capillaries.

Determination of human skin optical properties from spectrophotometric measurements based on optimization by genetic algorithms.

Relationship between damaged fraction and reflected spectra of denaturing tissues.

Imaging melanoma in a murine model using reflectance-mode confocal scanning laser microscopy and polarized light imaging.

Photoacoustic detection of metastatic melanoma cells in the human circulatory system.

Photoacoustic discrimination of viable and thermally coagulated blood using a two-wavelength method for burn injury monitoring.

Automated wavelet denoising of photoacoustic signals for circulating melanoma cell detection and burn image reconstruction.

PDMS embedded opto-fluidic microring resonator lasers.

Photoacoustic detection of melanoma micrometastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.

Detection of circulating melanoma cells in human blood using photoacoustic flowmetry.

Photoacoustic discrimination of vascular and pigmented lesions using classical and Bayesian methods.

Detection of melanoma cells in vitro using an optical detector of photoacoustic waves.

Plasma membrane integrity and survival of melanoma cells after nanosecond laser pulses.

Gold nanoparticle mediated detection of prostate cancer cells using photoacoustic flowmetry with optical reflectance.

Enhanced photoacoustic detection of melanoma cells using gold nanoparticles.