Vakoc Lab

Ratai EM, Wenke MR, Mercaldo N, Chan ST, Figueiro Longo MG, Welt J, Avesta A, Lee J, Lev MH, Parry BA, Drake L, Anderson RR, Rauch T, Diaz-Arrastia R, Hamblin MR, Vakoc BJ, Gupta R

Low-Level Light Therapy Effect on Metabolites measured by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Patients with Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury: A Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2025;:ePub - PMID: 40925680 - DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A8996

Yoon YC, Saytashev I, Chen RC, Settell M, Guastaldi F, Hammer DX, Ludwig KA, Vakoc BJ

Label-free full-thickness imaging of porcine vagus nerve fascicular anatomy by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.
J Neural Eng. 2025;22(2):ePub - PMID: 39946850 - PMCID: PMC12007689 - DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/adb5c3

Chan ST, Mercaldo N, Figueiro Longo MG, Welt J, Avesta A, Lee J, Lev MH, Ratai EM, Wenke MR, Parry BA, Drake L, Anderson RR, Rauch T, Diaz-Arrastia R, Kwong KK, Hamblin M, Vakoc BJ, Gupta R

Effects of Low-Level Light Therapy on Resting-State Connectivity Following Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury: Secondary Analyses of a Double-blinded Placebo-controlled Study.
Radiology. 2024;311(2):e230999 - PMID: 38805733 - PMCID: PMC11140530 - DOI: 10.1148/radiol.230999

Gruionu G, Baish J, McMahon S, Blauvelt D, Gruionu LG, Lenco MO, Vakoc BJ, Padera TP, Munn LL

Experimental and theoretical model of microvascular network remodeling and blood flow redistribution following minimally invasive microvessel laser ablation.
Sci Rep. 2024;14(1):8767 - PMID: 38627467 - PMCID: PMC11021487 - DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59296-w

Joo J, Cho S, Vakoc BJ, Oh WY

Stretched-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser Using Post-Cavity Stretching for Ultrahigh-Speed OCT.
IEEE Photonics Technol Lett. 2024;37(1):49-52 - PMID: 40190767 - PMCID: PMC11970573 - DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2024.3508541

Lee B, Jeong S, Lee J, Kim TS, Braaf B, Vakoc BJ, Oh WY

Wide-Field Three-Dimensional Depth-Invariant Cellular-Resolution Imaging of the Human Retina.
Small. 2023;19(11):e2203357 - PMID: 36642824 - PMCID: PMC10023497 - DOI: 10.1002/smll.202203357

Wong KKY, Wei X, Ji N, Polli D, Vakoc BJ

Feature issue introduction: ultrafast optical imaging.
Opt Express. 2023;31(5):8201-8204 - PMID: 36859936 - DOI: 10.1364/OE.486054

Saytashev I, Yoon YC, Vakoc BJ, Vasudevan S, Hammer DX

Improved in vivo optical coherence tomography imaging of animal peripheral nerves using a prism nerve holder.
J Biomed Opt. 2023;28(2):026002 - PMID: 36785561 - PMCID: PMC9921515 - DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.28.2.026002

Harper DJ, Kim Y, Gómez-Ramírez A, Vakoc BJ

Needle guidance with Doppler-tracked polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.
J Biomed Opt. 2023;28(10):102910 - PMID: 37799938 - PMCID: PMC10548115 - DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.28.10.102910

Monroy GL, Erfanzadeh M, Tao M, DePaoli DT, Saytashev I, Nam SA, Rafi H, Kwong KC, Shea K, Vakoc BJ, Vasudevan S, Hammer DX

Development of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography imaging platform and metrics to quantify electrostimulation-induced peripheral nerve injury in vivo in a small animal model.
Neurophotonics. 2023;10(2):025004 - PMID: 37077218 - PMCID: PMC10109528 - DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.2.025004

Gruionu G, Baish J, McMahon S, Blauvelt D, Gruionu LG, Lenco MO, Vakoc BJ, Padera TP, Munn LL

Experimental and Theoretical Model of Single Vessel Minimally Invasive Micro-Laser Ablation: Inducing Microvascular Network Remodeling and Blood Flow Redistribution Without Compromising Host Tissue Function.
Res Sq. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 38196660 - PMCID: PMC10775362 - DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3754775/v1

Nam AS, Braaf B, Vakoc BJ

Using the dynamic forward scattering signal for optical coherence tomography based blood flow quantification.
Opt Lett. 2022;47(12):3083-3086 - PMID: 35709056 - PMCID: PMC9580005 - DOI: 10.1364/OL.455475

Lippok N, Vakoc BJ

RF properties of circular-ranging OCT signals.
Opt Lett. 2022;47(7):1903-1906 - PMID: 35363765 - PMCID: PMC9027934 - DOI: 10.1364/OL.450318

Harper DJ, Vakoc BJ

Relationship between axial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio in optical coherence tomography.
Opt Lett. 2022;47(6):1517-1520 - PMID: 35290353 - PMCID: PMC8958905 - DOI: 10.1364/OL.449421

Wenande E, Gundavarapu SC, Tam J, Bhayana B, Thomas CN, Farinelli WA, Vakoc BJ, Anderson RR, Haedersdal M

Local vasoregulative interventions impact drug concentrations in the skin after topical laser-assisted delivery.
Lasers Surg Med. 2022;54(10):1288-1297 - PMID: 35593006 - PMCID: PMC9675883 - DOI: 10.1002/lsm.23558

Jones D, Wang Z, Chen IX, Zhang S, Banerji R, Lei PJ, Zhou H, Xiao V, Kwong C, van Wijnbergen JWM, Pereira ER, Vakoc BJ, Huang P, Nia HT, Padera TP

Solid stress impairs lymphocyte infiltration into lymph-node metastases.
Nat Biomed Eng. 2021;5(12):1426-1436 - PMID: 34282290 - PMCID: PMC8678215 - DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00766-1

Joo J, Kim TS, Vakoc BJ, Oh WY

Robust and easy-to-operate stretched-pulse mode-locked wavelength-swept laser with an all-polarization-maintaining fiber cavity for 10  MHz A-line rate optical coherence tomography.
Opt Lett. 2021;46(16):3857-3860 - PMID: 34388759 - PMCID: PMC8455078 - DOI: 10.1364/OL.424835

Figueiro Longo MG, Tan CO, Chan ST, Welt J, Avesta A, Ratai E, Mercaldo ND, Yendiki A, Namati J, Chico-Calero I, Parry BA, Drake L, Anderson R, Rauch T, Diaz-Arrastia R, Lev M, Lee J, Hamblin M, Vakoc B, Gupta R

Effect of Transcranial Low-Level Light Therapy vs Sham Therapy Among Patients With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(9):e2017337 - PMID: 32926117 - PMCID: PMC7490644 - DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17337
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