PDMS Microlenses for Focusing Light in Narrow Band Imaging Diagnostics

Minimally invasive medical devices can greatly benefit from Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) diagnostic capabilities, as different wavelengths allow penetration of distinct layers of the gastrointestinal tract mucosa, improving diagnostic accuracy and targeting different pathologies. An important performance parameter is the light intensity at a...

Optical microsystem design and fabrication for medical image magnification

Medical imaging is an important part of diagnosis. The procedure should provide valuable information for diagnosis and, at the same time, should be minimally invasive for the patient. Therefore, when performing endoscopic imaging, a system with reduced dimensions is crucial. The performance of imaging systems, used in several diagnosis...

Optical Filter for Providing the Required Illumination to Enable Narrow Band Imaging

This paper presents the design, fabrication and characterization of two Fabry Perot type optical filters (415 nm and 540 nm) for enabling Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) in medical devices (MD). The two-colour illumination should satisfy a highly specific optical design, which is composed of a thin-film optical filter stack of titanium dioxide (TiO2)...

Narrow-band pass filter array for integrated opto-electronic spectroscopy detectors to assess esophageal tissue

A strategy for spectroscopy tissue diagnosis using a small number of wavelengths is reported. The feasibility to accurately quantify tissue information using only 16 wavelengths is demonstrated with several wavelength reduction simulations of the existing esophageal data set. These results are an important step for the development of a...

An UV linear variable optical filter-based micro-spectrometer

This paper presents the design, fabrication and spectral measurements of an Ultra-Violet (UV) Linear Variable Optical Filter (LVOF)-based micro-spectrometer operating in the 300 nm–400 nm wavelength range. The UV LVOF has been fabricated in an IC-Compatible process using resist reflow. Characterization by passing monochromatic light through the...

UV Bandpass Optical Filter for Microspectometers

This paper describes the design and modeling of a UV bandpass optical filter for microspectrometers. The materials used for fabricating the multilayer UV filter are: silicon dioxide (SiO2), titanium dioxide (TiO2) and yttrium oxide (Y2O3). The optical filter shows a bandpass response wavelength in the range 230-280 nm, with a transmittance...

An array of highly selective Fabry-Perot optical channels for biological fluid analysis by optical absorption using a white light source for illumination

Integrated silicon microspectrometers

A CMOS optical microspectrometer with light-to-frequency converter, bus interface, and stray-light compensation