In the field of clinical instrumentation and life science research, sensing and optical spectroscopy perform vital roles in a range of applications. Optical spectroscopy offers an optimal method for ...

The study of optical properties in biological tissues is central to understanding their composition, physiology and pathology. Reflectance spectroscopy, by analysing the light that is scattered and ...

Surrogate samples (also known as tissue phantoms) are commonly used in medical applications to simulate human tissue. Optical tissue phantoms are synthetic models that simulate human tissue ...

Experimental DRS setup. (Courtesy: S Dadgar et al J. Biomed. Opt. 23 067001/CC BY 3.0). Tumour hypoxia is associated with poor clinical outcome following radiation or chemotherapy in cancer patients.

In a recently published 560-page book edited and co-authored by Kennedy College of Sciences Dean and Physics Prof. Noureddine Melikechi, researchers describe the way they are using light to identify ...

This application note presents the basics of optical spectroscopy. It describes the prism and light separation, the prism-based spectroscope, the reflection grating-based spectroscope and the use of ...

Figure 1. (a) Schematic diagram of the optical trapping-enhanced SERS optofluidic detection system; (b) effect of the single-beam optical trap module switch state on AgNPs aggregation; (c1) and (c2) ...

Surface analysis techniques such as quantitative depth profiling (QDP), usually require sophisticated and expensive instruments and tend to have very high spatial resolution. There is a widely held ...

Optical spectroscopy has helped scientists explore several new areas of nanocomposite research. In this article, the role of optical spectroscopy in polymer research is discussed. Optical spectroscopy ...

What is UV-Vis Spectroscopy? UV-Vis spectroscopy, short for ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, is an analytical technique that measures the absorption or reflectance of light by a sample in the ...