Korea University · Neuroscience
Professor Jong-Hwan Lee's research lab specializes in developing advanced optical imaging technologies for biomedical applications, with a focus on functional and dynamic imaging of microcirculation and cellular motility. The lab integrates dynamic light scattering (DLS) with optical coherence tomography (OCT) to enable high-resolution, three-dimensional mapping of blood flow, red blood cell dynamics, and intracellular motility in living tissues—particularly in the rodent cerebral cortex. Key innovations include quantitative imaging of capillary flow, motion artifact correction in dynamic imaging, and label-free assessment of cerebral hemodynamics and cellular dynamics. The lab's work supports fundamental neuroscience research and clinical applications in neurovascular function and critical care monitoring.
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We introduce an integration of dynamic light scattering (DLS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) for high-resolution 3D imaging of heterogeneous diffusion and flow. DLS analyzes fluctuations in light scattered by particles to measure diffusion or flow of the particles, and OCT uses coherence gating to collect light only scattered from a small volume for high-resolution structural imaging. Therefore, the integration of DLS and OCT enables high-resolution 3D imaging of diffusion and flow. We d
In this paper, we proposed new speech features using independent component analysis to human speeches. When independent component analysis is applied to speech signals for efficient encoding the adapted basis functions resemble Gabor-like features. Trained basis functions have some redundancies, so we select some of the basis functions by the reordering method. The basis functions are almost ordered from the low frequency basis vector to the high frequency basis vector. And this is compatible wi
Cardiac and respiratory motions in animals are the primary source of image quality degradation in dynamic imaging studies, especially when using phase-resolved imaging modalities such as spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), whose phase signal is very sensitive to movements of the sample. This study demonstrates a method with which to compensate for motion artifacts in dynamic SD-OCT imaging of the rodent cerebral cortex. We observed that respiratory and cardiac motions mainly c
As capillaries exhibit heterogeneous and fluctuating dynamics even during baseline, a technique measuring red blood cell (RBC) speed and flux over many capillaries at the same time is needed. Here, we report that optical coherence tomography can capture individual RBC passage simultaneously over many capillaries located at different depths. Further, we demonstrate the ability to quantify RBC speed, flux, and linear density. This technique will provide a means to monitor microvascular flow dynami
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This paper describes a novel optical method for label-free quantitative imaging of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and intracellular motility (IM) in the rodent cerebral cortex. This method is based on a technique that integrates dynamic light scattering (DLS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), named DLS-OCT. The technique measures both the axial and transverse velocities of CBF, whereas conventional Doppler OCT measures only the axial one. In addition, the technique produces a three-dimensional
We present a novel optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based technique for rapid volumetric imaging of red blood cell (RBC) flux in capillary networks. Previously we reported that OCT can capture individual RBC passage within a capillary, where the OCT intensity signal at a voxel fluctuates when an RBC passes the voxel. Based on this finding, we defined a metric of statistical intensity variation (SIV) and validated that the mean SIV is proportional to the RBC flux [RBC/s] through simulations and
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