Dr. Anna N. Yaroslavsky Profile

Dr. Anna N. Yaroslavsky

Associate Professor at Univ of Massachusetts Lowell

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Author

Publications (38)

SPIE Journal Paper | 20 March 2019

Multimodal optical imaging of renal cells

Sadia Malik, Peter Jermain, Xin Feng, Anna Yaroslavsky

OE Vol. 58 Issue 08

KEYWORDS: Fine needle aspiration, Luminescence, Optical imaging, Cancer, Confocal microscopy, Biopsy, Polarization, Mirrors, Optical engineering, Biomedical optics

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2019 Presentation

Validation of a Monte Carlo modeling based dosimetry of extraoral photobiomodulation (Conference Presentation)

Anna Yaroslavsky, Wendy London, Christine Duncan, Wayne Selting, James Carroll, Amy Juliano, Stephen Sonis, Ather Adnan, Nathaniel Treister

Proc. SPIE. 10861, Mechanisms of Photobiomodulation Therapy XIV

KEYWORDS: Phototherapy, Optical properties, Magnetic resonance imaging, Skin, Monte Carlo methods, Head

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2019 Presentation

Proposal and justification of a treatment protocol for extraoral photobiomodulation therapy for the prevention of oral mucositis (Conference Presentation)

Ather Adnan, Wendy London, Christine Duncan, Amy Juliano, Stephen Sonis, Anna Yaroslavsky, Nathaniel Treister

Proc. SPIE. 10861, Mechanisms of Photobiomodulation Therapy XIV

KEYWORDS: Visible radiation, Optical properties, Tissues, Monte Carlo methods, Infrared radiation

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2018 Presentation

Polarization enhanced reflectance imaging for pre-operative delineation of nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) (Conference Presentation)

Xin Feng, Peter Jermain, Victor Neel, Anna Yaroslavsky

Proc. SPIE. 10467, Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2018

KEYWORDS: Optical imaging, Polarization, Visualization, Surgery, Imaging systems, Reflectivity, Collagen, Skin cancer, Biopsy, In vivo imaging

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2018 Presentation

A Monte Carlo simulation of the dosimetry of extraorally delivered photobiomodulation therapy (Conference Presentation)

Anna Yaroslavsky, Wendy London, Christine Duncan, Amy Juliano, Steve Sonis, Ather Adnan, Nathaniel Treister

Proc. SPIE. 10477, Mechanisms of Photobiomodulation Therapy XIII

KEYWORDS: Thermography, Neck, Tissues, Magnetic resonance imaging, Image analysis, Transplantation, Laser induced plasma spectroscopy, Finite difference methods, Monte Carlo methods, Tissue optics

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Proceedings Article | 17 February 2017 Presentation + Paper

Extraorally delivered photobiomodulation therapy for prevention of oropharyngeal mucositis in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation

Christine Duncan, Anna Yaroslavsky, Wendy London, Amy Juliano, Stephen Sonis, Ather Adnan, Nathaniel Treister

Proc. SPIE. 10048, Mechanisms of Photobiomodulation Therapy XII

KEYWORDS: Neck, Light emitting diodes, Oncology, Laser therapeutics, Cancer, Tissues, Magnetic resonance imaging, Transplantation, Natural surfaces, Clinical trials

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SPIE Journal Paper | 19 September 2014

Comparative evaluation of methylene blue and demeclocycline for enhancing optical contrast of gliomas in optical images

William Curry, Dennis Wirth, Matija Snuderl, Anna Yaroslavsky

JBO Vol. 19 Issue 09

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Reflectivity, Tissues, Tumors, Brain, Tissue optics, Cancer, Confocal microscopy, Solids, Blood vessels

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SPIE Journal Paper | 7 June 2012

Multimodal optical imaging for detecting breast cancer

Rakesh Patel, Ashraf Khan, Dennis Wirth, Michal Kamionek, Dina Kandil, Robert Quinlan, Anna Yaroslavsky

JBO Vol. 17 Issue 06

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Polarization, Reflectivity, Tumors, Confocal microscopy, Cancer, Tissues, Breast cancer, Tissue optics, Optical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 2 March 2012 Paper

Continuous-wave terahertz reflection imaging of ex vivo nonmelanoma skin cancers

Cecil Joseph, Anna Yaroslavsky, Victor Neel, Thomas Goyette, Robert Giles

Proc. SPIE. 8261, Terahertz Technology and Applications V

KEYWORDS: Continuous wave operation, Millimeter wave imaging, Cancer, Tissues, Imaging systems, Skin, Reflectivity, Carbon dioxide lasers, Skin cancer, Terahertz radiation

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SPIE Journal Paper | 24 February 2012

Identifying brain neoplasms using dye-enhanced multimodal confocal imaging

Dennis Wirth, Anna Yaroslavsky, Matija Snuderl, Matthew Frosch, Sameer Sheth, Churl-Su Kwon, William Curry

JBO Vol. 17 Issue 02

KEYWORDS: Brain, Luminescence, Neuroimaging, Reflectivity, Confocal microscopy, Tumors, Tissues, Multimodal imaging, Cancer, Solids

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Proceedings Article | 5 March 2010 Paper

Dual-frequency continuous-wave terahertz transmission imaging of nonmelanoma skin cancers

Cecil Joseph, Anna Yaroslavsky, Julie Lagraves, Thomas Goyette, Robert Giles

Proc. SPIE. 7601, Terahertz Technology and Applications III

KEYWORDS: Continuous wave operation, Millimeter wave imaging, Tissues, Skin, Carbon dioxide lasers, Skin cancer, Terahertz radiation, Spatial resolution, Signal detection, Liquids

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 March 2010

Dye-enhanced multimodal confocal microscopy for noninvasive detection of skin cancers in mouse models

Jesung Park, Pawel Mroz, Michael Hamblin, Anna Yaroslavsky

JBO Vol. 15 Issue 02

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Reflectivity, Confocal microscopy, Melanoma, In vivo imaging, Skin cancer, Tumors, Cancer, Tissues, Confocal fluorescent microscopy

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Proceedings Article | 9 February 2009 Paper

Terahertz spectroscopy of intrinsic biomarkers for non-melanoma skin cancer

Cecil Joseph, Anna Yaroslavsky, Munir Al-Arashi, Thomas Goyette, Jason Dickinson, Andrew Gatesman, Brian Soper, Christopher Forgione, Thomas Horgan, Elizabeth Ehasz, Robert Giles, William Nixon

Proc. SPIE. 7215, Terahertz Technology and Applications II

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Millimeter wave imaging, Imaging systems, Skin, Skin cancer, Terahertz radiation, Transmittance, Terahertz spectroscopy, Liquids, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 21 February 2007 Paper

Low-level light therapy for Zymosan induced arthritis in rats

Ana Castano, Tianhong Dai, Tatiana Demidova-Rice, Elena Salomatina, Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Richard Cohen, William Apruzzese, Michael Smotrich, Michael Hamblin

Proc. SPIE. 6428, Mechanisms for Low-Light Therapy II

KEYWORDS: Near infrared, Medicine, Phototherapy, Wound healing, Laser therapeutics, Chromophores, Inflammation, Acquisition tracking and pointing, Low level phototherapy, Animal model studies

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 January 2007

Fluorescence polarization of tetracycline derivatives as a technique for mapping nonmelanoma skin cancers

Anna Yaroslavsky, Elena Salomatina, Victor Neel, Richard Anderson, Thomas Flotte

JBO Vol. 12 Issue 01

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Polarization, Tumors, Tissues, Skin, Cancer, Skin cancer, Surgery, Mohs surgery, Tissue optics

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 November 2006

Optical properties of normal and cancerous human skin in the visible and near-infrared spectral range

Elena Salomatina, Brian Jiang, John Novak, Anna Yaroslavsky

JBO Vol. 11 Issue 06

KEYWORDS: Absorption, Scattering, Skin, Optical properties, Tissues, Skin cancer, Confocal microscopy, Cancer, Tumors, Integrating spheres

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Proceedings Article | 28 February 2006 Paper

Wound healing stimulation in mice by low-level light

Tatiana Demidova, Ira Herman, Elena Salomatina, Anna Yaroslavsky, Michael Hamblin

Proc. SPIE. 6140, Mechanisms for Low-Light Therapy

KEYWORDS: Optical filters, Light sources, Wound healing, Lamps, Scanning electron microscopy, Helium neon lasers, Non laser light sources, Light, Absorption, Animal model studies

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Proceedings Article | 22 February 2006 Paper

Dye-Enhanced Reflectance and Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy as an Optical Pathology Tool

Anna Yaroslavsky, Elena Salomatina, John Novak, Ivan Amat-Roldan, Ana Castano, Michael Hamblin

Proc. SPIE. 6091, Optical Biopsy VI

KEYWORDS: Confocal microscopy, Cancer, Tumors, Tissues, Skin, Luminescence, Reflectivity, Skin cancer, In vivo imaging, Tissue optics

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 January 2005

Combining multispectral polarized light imaging and confocal microscopy for localization of nonmelanoma skin cancer

Anna Yaroslavsky, Jose Barbosa, Victor Neel, Charles DiMarzio, Richard Anderson

JBO Vol. 10 Issue 01

KEYWORDS: Confocal microscopy, Tumors, Curium, Multispectral imaging, Skin cancer, Tissues, Tissue optics, Cancer, Natural surfaces, Skin

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Proceedings Article | 13 July 2004 Paper

Optical mapping of nonmelanoma skin cancer

Anna Yaroslavsky, Victor Neel, Richard Anderson

Proc. SPIE. 5326, Optical Biopsy V

KEYWORDS: Cancer, Tumors, Polarization, Tissues, Surgery, Skin, Luminescence, Reflectivity, Skin cancer, Tissue optics

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Proceedings Article | 4 May 2001 Paper

Feasibility of using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for the quantification of brain edema

Juan Rodriguez, Cynthia Sisson, Chad Hendricks, Chris Pattillo, Megan McWaters, Mardjohan Hardjasudarma, Chad Quarles, Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Harold Battarbee

Proc. SPIE. 4241, Saratov Fall Meeting 2000: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine II

KEYWORDS: Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Tumors, Tissues, Sensors, Signal attenuation, Blood vessels, Head, Skull, Absorption, Brain

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Proceedings Article | 19 April 2000 Paper

Distributed-source approach to image reconstruction in diffuse optical tomography

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Anna Yaroslavsky, Harold Battarbee, Cynthia Sisson, Juan Rodriguez

Proc. SPIE. 3917, Optical Biopsy III

KEYWORDS: Optical properties, Scattering, Sensors, Image processing, Diffusion, Image restoration, Reconstruction algorithms, Signal detection, Absorption, Diffuse optical tomography

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 1999 Paper

Small-volume tissue spectroscopy using photon-density waves: apparatus and technique

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Albert Terenji, Stefan Willmann, Anna Yaroslavsky, Harald Busse, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 3597, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue III

KEYWORDS: Data modeling, Modulation, Optical properties, Scattering, Sensors, Diffusion, Phase shift keying, Monte Carlo methods, Tissue optics, Signal detection

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Proceedings Article | 4 January 1999 Paper

Can tumor cell suspension serve as an optical model of tumor tissue in situ?

Anna Yaroslavsky, Anja Vervoorts, Alexander Priezzhev, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Joerg Moser, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 3565, Thermal Therapy, Laser Welding, and Tissue Interaction

KEYWORDS: Tumor growth modeling, Tumors, Optical properties, Scattering, Lung, Monte Carlo methods, Integrating spheres, Tissue optics, Content addressable memory, Absorption

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 January 1999

Influence of the scattering phase function approximation on the optical properties of blood determined from the integrating sphere measurements

Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Thomas Goldbach, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

JBO Vol. 4 Issue 01

KEYWORDS: Scattering, Blood, Monte Carlo methods, Light scattering, Optical properties, Mie scattering, Integrating spheres, Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Transmittance, Anisotropy

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Proceedings Article | 13 May 1998 Paper

Changes in the optical properties of laser-coagulated and thermally coagulated bovine myocardium

Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier, Anna Yaroslavsky, Albert Terenji, Stefan Willmann, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Thomas Kahn

Proc. SPIE. 3254, Laser-Tissue Interaction IX

KEYWORDS: Laser coagulation, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Laser scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Integrating spheres, Laser tissue interaction, Absorption, Anisotropy

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Proceedings Article | 14 January 1998 Paper

Small-angle approximation to determine radiance distribution of a finite beam propagating through a turbid medium

Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 3195, Laser-Tissue Interaction, Tissue Optics, and Laser Welding III

KEYWORDS: Refractive index, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Sensors, Laser scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Beam propagation method, Radiative transfer, Anisotropy

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Proceedings Article | 1 January 1998 Paper

Approximate time-dependent equation of radiative transfer for strongly forward-scattering media

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Anna Yaroslavsky, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 3194, Photon Propagation in Tissues III

KEYWORDS: Light sources, Biomedical optics, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Diffusion, Light scattering, Optical diagnostics, Partial differential equations, Radiative transfer

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 1997 Paper

Optical properties of native and coagulated human brain structures

Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier, Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Thomas Goldbach, Thomas Kahn, Frank Ulrich, Paul Schulze, Ralf Schober

Proc. SPIE. 2970, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems VII

KEYWORDS: Laser therapeutics, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Integrating spheres, Tissue optics, Absorption, Anisotropy, Brain

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Proceedings Article | 2 May 1997 Paper

Different phase-function approximations to determine optical properties of blood: a comparison

Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Thomas Goldbach, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 2982, Optical Diagnostics of Biological Fluids and Advanced Techniques in Analytical Cytology

KEYWORDS: Optical properties, Scattering, Blood, Light scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Transmittance, Mie scattering, Integrating spheres, Absorption, Anisotropy

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Proceedings Article | 10 May 1996 Paper

Optical properties of blood in the near-infrared spectral range

Anna Yaroslavsky, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Thomas Goldbach, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 2678, Optical Diagnostics of Living Cells and Biofluids

KEYWORDS: Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Optical properties, Scattering, Blood, Light scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Transmittance, Mie scattering, Integrating spheres, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 7 May 1996 Paper

Modeling of MR-guided laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Anna Yaroslavsky, Thomas Goldbach, Thomas Kahn, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier

Proc. SPIE. 2681, Laser-Tissue Interaction VII

KEYWORDS: Thermography, Tumors, Optical properties, Tissues, Blood, Magnetic resonance imaging, Monte Carlo methods, Tissue optics, Heat therapy, Brain

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Proceedings Article | 18 December 1995 Paper

New approach to Monte Carlo simulation of photon transport in the frequency domain

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Anna Yaroslavsky, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier, Garif Akchurin, Valery Tuchin

Proc. SPIE. 2626, Photon Propagation in Tissues

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Sensors, Diffusion, Light scattering, Phase shift keying, Monte Carlo methods, Photon transport

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Proceedings Article | 31 January 1995 Paper

Radiative transfer equation and its diffusion approximation in the frequency domain technique: a comparison

Ilya Yaroslavsky, Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier, Anna Yaroslavsky, Valery Tuchin

Proc. SPIE. 2326, Photon Transport in Highly Scattering Tissue

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Optical properties, Tissues, Scattering, Diffusion, Light scattering, Optical tomography, Tissue optics, Radiative transfer, Phase shifts

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Proceedings Article | 28 June 1994 Paper

Angular scattering properties of human epidermal layers

Anna Yaroslavskaya, Sergei Utz, Sergey Tatarintsev, Valery Tuchin

Proc. SPIE. 2100, Cell and Biotissue Optics: Applications in Laser Diagnostics and Therapy

KEYWORDS: Laser therapeutics, Tissues, Scattering, Skin, Light scattering, Laser scattering, Phase measurement, Geometrical optics, Tissue optics, Scatter measurement

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Proceedings Article | 23 June 1994 Paper

Human eye lens spectroscopy and modeling of its transmittance

Valery Tuchin, Irina Maksimova, Anna Yaroslavskaya, Tatjana Semenova, Sergey Tatarintsev, Vyacheslav Kochubey, Vera Isotova

Proc. SPIE. 2126, Ophthalmic Technologies IV

KEYWORDS: Eye, Scattering, Spectroscopy, Particles, Crystals, Light scattering, Chromophores, Tissue optics, Eye models, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 15 February 1994 Paper

Raman and elastic light scattering of fresh human eye-lenses

Cees Otto, Anna Yaroslavskaya, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Gijs Vrensen, Gerwin Puppels, Jan Greve

Proc. SPIE. 2079, Laser Applications in Ophthalmology

KEYWORDS: Eye, Proteins, Scattering, Lenses, Water, Particles, Diffusion, Light scattering, Raman spectroscopy, Raman scattering

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Proceedings Article | 21 July 1993 Paper

Spectral characteristics of epidermis in UV and visible ranges

Valery Tuchin, Sergei Utz, Ilya Yaroslavsky, Anna Yaroslavskaya, Vladimir Kukavsky, Alexander Barabanov

Proc. SPIE. 1884, Static and Dynamic Light Scattering in Medicine and Biology

KEYWORDS: Laser therapeutics, Reflection, Scattering, Blood, Skin, Ultraviolet radiation, Light scattering, Tissue optics, Laser tissue interaction, Absorption

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