ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2015
Optical coherence tomography for the diagnosis and evaluation of human otitis media.
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- Optical Coherence Tomography as an Emerging Technique for Identifying Pediatric Middle Ear Effusion.The Laryngoscope · 2026Article
- Differentiating Causes of Post-Surgical Conductive Hearing Loss with Optical Coherence Tomography Vibrometry.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Article
- Quantitative measurement of tympanic membrane structure and symmetry with optical coherence tomography in normal human subjects.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- Dense Convolutional Neural Network-Based Deep Learning Pipeline for Pre-Identification of Circular Leaf Spot Disease ofSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Automated classification of otitis media with OCT: augmenting pediatric image datasets with gold-standard animal model data.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
- New Approaches and Technologies to Improve Accuracy of Acute Otitis Media Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- A review of low-cost and portable optical coherence tomography.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2021Article
- Investigations on the potential of optical coherence tomography as an imaging tool for eustachian tube.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Longitudinal optical coherence tomography to visualize the in vivo response of middle ear biofilms to antibiotic therapy.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Advances in Optical Detection of Human-Associated Pathogenic Bacteria.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Optical Identification of Middle Ear Infection.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Recovery from tympanic membrane perforation: Effects on membrane thickness, auditory thresholds, and middle ear transmission.Hearing research · 2019Article
- Observations of in vivo laser tissue ablation in animal models with different chromophores on the skin and modulating duration per laser exposure.Lasers in medical science · 2019Article
- Revealing the morphology and function of the cochlea and middle ear with optical coherence tomography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2019Review
- Automated classification platform for the identification of otitis media using optical coherence tomography.NPJ digital medicine · 2019Article
- Clinical Utility of Intraoperative Tympanomastoidectomy Assessment Using a Surgical Microscope Integrated with an Optical Coherence Tomography.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Differential diagnosis of otitis media with effusion using label-free Raman spectroscopy: A pilot study.Journal of biophotonics · 2018Article
- In Vivo Non-Destructive Monitoring of Capsicum Annuum Seed Growth with Diverse NaCl Concentrations Using Optical Detection Technique.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Non-Destructive Analysis of the Internal Anatomical Structures of Mosquito Specimens Using Optical Coherence Tomography.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Anti-confocal assessment of middle ear inflammation.Biomedical optics express · 2017Article
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Abstract
We report the application of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to the diagnosis and evaluation of otitis media (OM). Whereas conventional diagnostic modalities for OM, including standard and pneumatic otoscopy, are limited to visualizing the surface of the tympanic membrane (TM), OCT effectively reveals the depth-resolved microstructure below the TM with very high spatial resolution, with the potential advantage of its use for diagnosing different types of OM. We examined the use of 840-nm spectral domain-OCT (SD-OCT) clinically, using normal ears and ears with the adhesive and effusion types of OM. Specific features were identified in two-dimensional OCT images of abnormal TMs, compared to images of healthy TMs. Analysis of the A-scan (axial depth scan) identified unique patterns of constituents within the effusions. The OCT images could not only be used to construct a database for the diagnosis and classification of OM but OCT might also represent an upgrade over current otoscopy techniques.
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