Publications

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  1. Berk Camli, Liam Andrus, Aditya Roy, Biswajit Mishra, Chris Xu, Irene Georgakoudi, Tomasz Tkaczyk, and Adela Ben-Yakar, "Two photon imaging probe with highly efficient autofluorescence collection at high scattering and deep imaging conditions," Biomed. Opt. Express 15, 3163-3182 (2024)
  2. Haimu Cao, Christopher Flynn, Brian Applegate, and TS. Tkaczyk, "High-spatial density snapshot imaging spectrometer enabled by 2-photon fabricated custom fiber bundles," Opt. Lett. 48, 5587-5590 (2023)
  3. Christopher Flynn, Haimu Cao, Brian E. Applegate, TS. Tkaczyk, Fabrication of waveguide directional couplers using 2-photon lithography, Optics Express, July 2023.
  4. Jiawei Lu, Xue Wen Ng, David Piston, and TS Tkaczyk, "Fabrication of a multifaceted mapping mirror using two-photon polymerization for a snapshot image mapping spectrometer," Appl. Opt. 62, 5416-5426 (2023)
  5. Jiawei Lu, Desheng Zheng, Razvan-Ionut Stoian, Christopher Flynn, David Alexander, and TS Tkaczyk, "Visible and short-wave infrared fiber-based snapshot imaging spectrometer with a custom high-throughput relay system," Opt. Continuum 2, 1106-1121 (2023)
  6. Andrus, Liam, Hamin Jeon, Michal Pawlowski, Benoit Debord, Frederic Gerome, Fetah Benabid, Ted Mau, TS Tkaczyk, and Adela Ben-Yakar. "Ultrafast laser surgery probe for sub-surface ablation to enable biomaterial injection in vocal folds." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 20554.
  7. G Berglund, A Wisniowiecki, J Gawedzinski, B Applegate, and TS Tkaczyk, "Additive manufacturing for the development of optical/photonic systems and components," Optica 9, 623-638 (2022)
  8. GD. Berglund and TS. Tkaczyk, "Enabling consumer-grade 3D-printed optical instruments – a case study on design and fabrication of a spectrometer system using low-cost 3D printing technologies," Opt. Continuum 1, 516-526 (2022)
  9. C Flynn, RI. Stoian, BD. Weers, JE. Mullet, JA Thomasson, D Alexander, and TS. Tkaczyk, "Ruggedized, field-ready snapshot light-guide-based imaging spectrometer for environmental and remote sensing applications," Opt. Express 30, 10614-10632 (2022)
  10. D. Zheng, C Flynn, RI. Stoian, J. Lu, H. Cao, D. Alexander, and TS. Tkaczyk, "Radiometric and design model for the tunable light-guide image processing snapshot spectrometer (TuLIPSS)," Opt. Express 29, 30174-30197 (2021)
  11. K. Subramanian, L. Andrus, M. Pawlowski, Y. Wang, T. Tkaczyk, and Adela Ben-Yakar, "Ultrafast laser surgery probe with a calcium fluoride miniaturized objective for bone ablation," Biomed. Opt. Express 12, 4779-4794 (2021)
  12. CE. Majors, ME. Pawlowski, TS. Tkaczyk, Q. Dube, R. Richards-Kortum, Evaluation of the LeukoScope for Point-of-Care Measurement of White Blood Cell and Neutrophil Counts in Malawi. Ann Biomed Eng 49, 2566–2578 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-021-02827-7
  13. H. Jeon, ME. Pawlowski, L. Andrus, A. Ben-Yakar, TS. Tkaczyk, Development of a miniature objective based on calcium fluoride and zinc sulfide lenses for ultrafast laser microsurgery applications, Optical Engineering, 60 (7) , art. no. 075106, (2021)
  14. TS. Tkaczyk, David Alexander, Christopher Flynn, Jiawei Lu, Ye Wang, Razvan I Stoian, Desheng Zheng, LIGHTGUIDE, INTEGRAL FIELD SNAPSHOT IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGING AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS, IEEE Proceedings, IGARSS 2020.
  15. XW Ng, MR DiGruccio,; TS Tkaczyk, DW Piston, Simultaneous Imaging of Insulin Vesicle Dynamics and Calcium Activity in Live Intact Mouse ISLETS by diSPIM, BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, Volume: 118 Issue: 3 Pages: 464A-464A, FEB 15-19, 2020
  16. J. Gawedzinski, KM. Schmeler, A. Milbourne, P. Ramalingam, PA. Moghaddam, R. Richards-Kortum, and TS. Tkaczyk, "Toward development of a large field-of-view cancer screening patch (CASP) to detect cervical intraepithelial neoplasia," Biomed. Opt. Express 10, 6145-6159 (2019)
  17. GD. Berglund and TS. Tkaczyk, "Fabrication of optical components using a consumer-grade lithographic printer," Opt. Express 27, 30405-30420 (2019)
  18. CE. Majors, ME. Pawlowski, DC. Burke, TS. Tkaczyk, A. Rieber  and  R. Richards-Kortum, “Clinical training and validation of the LeukoScope: a low-cost, point-of-care device to perform white blood cell and neutrophil counts”, RSC Adv., 2019,9, 27324-27333
  19. Y. Wang, ME. Pawlowski, S. Cheng, JG. Dwight, RI. Stoian, J. Lu, D. Alexander, and TS. Tkaczyk, "Light-guide snapshot imaging spectrometer for remote sensing applications," Opt. Express 27, 15701-15725 (2019)
  20. JG Dwight, C Weng, ME Pawlowski, TS Tkaczyk, “A dye-free analog to retinal angiography using hyperspectral unmixing to retrieve oxyhemoglobin abundance", TVST, 2019
  21. C Wong, ME Pawlowski, T Tkaczyk, Simple ultraviolet microscope using off-the-shelf components for point-of-care diagnostics, PLOS ONE | April 10, 2019
  22. H Jeon, ME Pawlowski, and TS Tkaczyk, "High-resolution endomicroscopy with a spectrally encoded miniature objective," Biomed.Opt.Exp. 10, 1432-1445 (2019)
  23. ME Pawlowski, Y Yang, C Wong, TS Tkaczyk, "Achromatization method for multichannel fluorescence imaging systems," Opt. Eng. 58(1) 015106 (2019)
  24. ME Pawlowski, JG Dwight, T-U Nguyen, and TS Tkaczyk, "High performance image mapping spectrometer (IMS) for snapshot hyperspectral imaging applications," Opt. Exp. 27, 1597-1612 (2019)
  25. JG Dwight, TS Tkaczyk, D Alexander, ME Pawlowski, R-I Stoian, JC Luvall, PF Tatum, GJ Jedlovec, "Compact snapshot image mapping spectrometer for unmanned aerial vehicle hyperspectral imaging," J. Appl. Rem. Sens. 12(4) 044004 (19 December 2018)
  26. Y Wang, J Gawedzinski, ME Pawlowski, and TS Tkaczyk, "3D printed fiber optic faceplates by custom controlled fused deposition modeling," Opt. Exp. 26, 15362-15376 (2018)
  27. C Wong, ME Pawlowski, A Forcucci, CE Majors, R Richards-Kortum, TS Tkaczyk, "Development of a universal, tunable, miniature fluorescence microscope for use at the point of care," Biomed.Opt.Exp. 9, 1041-1056 (2018)
  28. AD Elliott, N Bedard, A Ustione, MA Baird, MW Davidson, T Tkaczyk, DW Piston, Hyperspectral imaging for simultaneous measurements of two FRET biosensors in pancreatic β-cells, PLOS One, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188789
  29. CE Majors, M Pawlowski, T Tkaczyk, R Richards-Kortum, Low Cost, Imaging Based Device for Performing a White Blood Cell Count and 3-Part Differential at the Point of Care, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, Volume: 95, Issue: 5, Pages: 70-71 Published: NOV 2017
  30. J Gawedzinski, M Pawlowski, TS Tkaczyk, Quantitative evaluation of performance of three-dimensional printed lenses, Opt.Eng., V: 56  I: 8, 2017
  31. Y Wang, ME Pawlowski, TS Tkaczyk, “High spatial sampling light-guide snapshot spectrometer”, Opt.Eng., V: 56 I: 8. 2017
  32. JG Dwight and TS Tkaczyk, "Lenslet array tunable snapshot imaging spectrometer (LATIS) for hyperspectral fluorescence microscopy," Biomed. Opt. Express 8, 1950-1964 (2017)
  33. A Shadfan, H Darwiche, J Blanco, A Gillenwater, R Richards-Kortum, TS Tkaczyk, "Development of a multimodal foveated endomicroscope for the detection of oral cancer," Biomed.Opt.Exp. 8, 1525-1535 (2017)
  34. K Subramanian, I Gabay, O Ferhanoğlu, A Shadfan, M Pawlowski, Y Wang, T Tkaczyk, A Ben-Yakar, "Kagome fiber based ultrafast laser microsurgery probe delivering micro-Joule pulse energies," Biomed.Opt.Exp. 7, 4639-4653, 2016
  35. C Wonga, NP Ha, ME Pawlowski, EA Graviss, TS Tkaczyk, Differentiating between Live and Dead Mycobacterium smegmatis using Autofluorescence, TUBERCULOSIS, V: 101 P: S119-S123, 2016
  36. JG Dwight, CY Weng, RE Coffee, ME Pawlowski, TS Tkaczyk, Hyperspectral Image Mapping Spectrometry for Retinal Oximetry Measurements in Four Diseased Eyes, INTERNATIONAL OPHTHALMOLOGY CLINICS, Volume 56, Number 4, 25–38, 2016,
  37. Z Lavagnino, J Dwight, A Ustione, T-U Nguyen, TS Tkaczyk,  DW Piston, Snapshot Hyperspectral Light-Sheet Imaging of Signal Transduction in Live Pancreatic Islet, Biophysical Journal 111, 409–417, 2016
  38. A Shadfan, M Pawlowski, Y Wang, K Subramanian, I Gabay, A Ben-Yakar, T Tkaczyk, Design and fabrication of a miniature objective consisting of high refractive index zinc sulfide lenses for laser surgery, Opt. Eng, V 55, I 02, 2016
  39. AH Shadfan, ME Pawlowski, TS Tkaczyk, Development of tunable miniature piezoelectric-based scanners validated by the combination of two scanners in a direct image relay technique, Optical Eng., V 55, I 01, 2016
  40. SD Konecky; RH Wilson; N Hagen; A Mazhar; TS Tkaczyk, RD Frostig, and B Tromberg, "Hyperspectral optical tomography of intrinsic signals in the rat cortex", Neurophoton. 2(4), 045003 (Nov 12, 2015).
  41. A Forcucci, M Pawlowski, Z Crannell, C Majors, I Pavlova, R Richards-Kortum, TS Tkaczyk, All plastic miniature fluorescence microscope for point-of-care readout of bead-based bioassays, JBO 20(10), 105010 (2015);
  42. S Jain, X Wang, C-C Chang, C Ibarra-Drendall, H Wang, Q Zhang, SW Brady, P Li, H Zhao, J Dobbs, M Kyrish, TS Tkaczyk, A Ambrose, C Sistrunk, B Arun, R Richards-Kortum, W Jia, VL Seewaldt, D Yu, “Src Inhibition Prevents Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer by Blocking c-Myc Translation and Glucose Metabolism”, Cancer Res, 2015.
  43. A Forcucci, ME Pawlowski, C Majors, R Richards-Kortum, TS. Tkaczyk, "All-plastic, miniature, digital fluorescence microscope for three part white blood cell differential measurements at the point of care," Biomed.Opt.Exp. 6, 4433-4446 (2015)
  44. A Shadfan, A Hellebust, R Richards-Kortum, T Tkaczyk, Confocal foveated endomicroscope for the detection of esophageal carcinoma, Biomed.Opt.Exp., V.6, I.7, pp. 2311-2324 (2015)
  45. ME Pawlowski, S Shrestha, J Park, BE Applegate, JS Oghalai, TS Tkaczyk, Miniature, minimally invasive, tunable endoscope for investigation of the middle ear, Biomed.Opt.Exp. V.6, I.6, p.2246-2257 (2015)
  46. PA. Keahey, T.Tkaczyk, KM. Schmeler, and RR. Richards-Kortum, "Optimizing modulation frequency for structured illumination in a fiber-optic microendoscope to image nuclear morphometry in columnar epithelium," Biomed. Opt. Express 6, 870-880 (2015)
  47. K Patorski, M Trusiak, and T Tkaczyk, "Optically-sectioned two-shot structured illumination microscopy with Hilbert-Huang processing," Opt. Express 22, 9517-9527 (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-22-8-9517
  48. MC Pierce, SE Weigum, JM Jaslove, R Richards-Kortum, TS Tkaczyk, Optical Systems for Point-of-care Diagnostic Instrumentation: Analysis of Imaging Performance and Cost, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, January 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp 231-240
  49. B McCall, RJ Olsen, NJ Nelles, DL Williams, K Jackson, R Richards-Kortum, EA Graviss, TS. Tkaczyk, Evaluation of a Miniature Microscope Objective Designed for Fluorescence Array Microscopy Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, V:138 I: 3 P: 379-389, 2014
  50. M Kyrish ; J Dobbs ; S Jain ; X Wang ; D Yu ; R Richards-Kortum ; TS Tkaczyk, "Needle-based fluorescence endomicroscopy via structured illumination with a plastic, achromatic objective", JBO 18(9), 096003 (2013).
  51. T-U Nguyen, MC Pierce, L Higgins, and TS Tkaczyk, "Snapshot 3D optical coherence tomography system using image mapping spectrometry," Opt. Express 21, 13758-13772 (2013)
  52. N Bedard, RA Schwarz, A Hu, V Bhattar, J Howe, M D Williams, AM Gillenwater, R Richards-Kortum, and TS Tkaczyk, "Multimodal snapshot spectral imaging for oral cancer diagnostics: a pilot study," Biomed. Opt. Express 4, 938-949 (2013)
  53. M Bond, C Elguea, JS Yan, M Pawlowski, J Williams, A Wahed, M Oden, TS Tkaczyk and R Richards-Kortum, “Chromatography paper as a low-cost medium for accurate spectrophotometric assessment of blood hemoglobin concentration”, Lab Chip, 2013, 13, 2381–2388,
  54. B McCall and TS Tkaczyk, "Rapid fabrication of miniature lens arrays by four-axis single point diamond machining," Opt. Express 21, 3557-3572 (2013)
  55. M Kyrish and TS Tkaczyk, "Achromatized endomicroscope objective for optical biopsy", Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 287-297 (2013)
  56. N Bedard, T Quang, K Schmeler, R Richards-Kortum, and TS Tkaczyk, "Real-time video mosaicing with a high-resolution microendoscope," Biomed. Opt. Express 3, 2428-2435 (2012), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/boe/abstract.cfm?URI=boe-3-10-2428
  57. N Bedard and TS Tkaczyk, "Snapshot spectrally encoded fluorescence imaging through a fiber bundle", Journal of Biomedical Optics Letters, August 2012 • Vol. 17(8), p.080508-1
  58. AD Elliott, L Gao, A Ustione, N Bedard, R Kester, DW Piston, and TS Tkaczyk, Time Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging of Pancreatic β-Cell Dynamics with the Image Mapping Spectrometer (IMS), Journal of Cell Science, JOCES/2012/108258
  59. N Bedard, N Hagen, L Gao, TS Tkaczyk, "Image mapping spectrometry: calibration and characterization", Optical Engineering 51(11), (November 2012),
  60. NA Hagen, RT. Kester, L Gao, TS Tkaczyk, "Snapshot advantage: a review of the light collection improvement for parallel high-dimensional measurement systems," Opt. Eng. 51(11) 111702 (2012)
  61. L Gao and TS Tkaczyk, "Correction of vignetting and distortion errors induced by two-axis light beam steering", Optical Engineering 51(4), 043203 (April 2012)
  62. N Hagen and TS Tkaczyk, Foveated endoscopic lens, J. Biomed. Opt. 17, 021104 (Mar 12, 2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.2.021104
  63. L Gao, N Hagen and TS. Tkaczyk, "Quantitative comparison between full-spectrum and filter-based imaging in hyperspectral fluorescence microscopy", Journal of Microscopy v: 246 i: 2 p: 113-123, 2012
  64. N Hagen, L Gao, and TS Tkaczyk, "Quantitative sectioning and noise analysis for structured illumination microscopy" OPTICS EXPRESS  Volume: 20   Issue: 1   Pages: 403-413, 2012
  65. L Gao, RT Smith, and TS Tkaczyk, "Snapshot hyperspectral retinal camera with the Image Mapping Spectrometer (IMS)," Biomed. Opt. Express 3, 48-54 (2012)
  66. B McCall, M Pierce, EA Graviss, R Richards-Kortum, TS Tkaczyk, Toward a Low-cost Compact Array Microscopy Platform for Detection of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis,91(2011)S54-60.
  67. L Gao, N Bedard, N Hagen, RT Kester, and TS Tkaczyk, "Depth-resolved image mapping spectrometer (IMS) with structured illumination," Opt. Express 19, 17439-17452 (2011)
  68. N.Hagen and T.Tkaczyk, Compound prism design principles, I, APPLIED OPTICS / Vol. 50, No.25/1 2011.
  69. N.Hagen and T.Tkaczyk, Compound prism design principles, II: triplet and Janssen prisms, APPLIED OPTICS / Vol. 50, No.25/1 2011,
  70. N.Hagen and T.Tkaczyk, prism design principles, III: linear-in-wavenumber and OCT prisms, APPLIED OPTICS / Vol. 50, No.25/1 2011,
  71. RT Kester, N Bedard, L Gao, TS Tkaczyk, Real-Time Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging Endoscope, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 16(05), 056005, May 2011.
  72. M Kyrish, U Utzinger, MR Descour, BK Baggett, and TS Tkaczyk, "Ultra-slim plastic endomicroscope objective for non-linear microscopy," Opt. Express 19, 7603-7615 (2011)
  73. GC Birch, MR Descour, TS Tkaczyk, “Hyperspectral Shack-Hartmann test” APPLIED OPTICS   Volume: 49   Issue: 28   Pages: 5399-5406   Published: OCT 1 2010
  74. B McCall,  TS Tkaczyk, “Fabrication of plastic microlens array for array microscope by three-dimensional diamond micromilling,” Optical Engineering, vol. 49, Published: OCT 2010.  
  75. L Gao, RT Kester, N Hagen, TS Tkaczyk, Snapshot image-mapping spectrometer for hyperspectral fluorescence microscopy, Optics and Photonics News, Volume 21, Issue 12, December 2010, p.50. (OSA feature of the most significant developments of the year in area of spectroscopy)
  76. L Gao, RT Kester, N Hagen, and TS Tkaczyk, "Snapshot Image Mapping Spectrometer (IMS) with high sampling density for hyperspectral microscopy," Opt.Exp.18,14330-14344 (2010)
  77. RT Kester, L Gao, and TS Tkaczyk, "Development of image mappers for hyperspectral biomedical imaging applications," Appl. Opt. 49, 1886-1899 (2010)
  78. SM Landau, C Liang, RT Kester, TS Tkaczyk, and MR Descour, "Design and evaluation of an ultra-slim objective for in-vivo deep optical biopsy," Opt. Express 18, 4758-4775 (2010)
  79. L Gao, RT Kester, and T Tkaczyk, "Compact Image Slicing Spectrometer (ISS) for hyperspectral fluorescence microscopy," Opt. Express 17, 12293-12308 (2009)
  80. R.Kester, T.Christenson,R.Richards-Kortum, T.Tkaczyk, ”Low Cost, High Performance, Self Aligning Miniature Optical Systems”, Applied Optics, Vol. 48, No. 18, p. 3379, 20 June 2009
  81. J.D. Rogers, S. Landau, T. Tkaczyk, M.R. Descour, M.S. Rahman, R. Richards-Kortum, A.Kärkkäinen, T. Christenson, “Performance and imaging results for miniature integrated microendoscope” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 13(5), 054020-1-6 September/October (2008).
  82. R.T. Kester, T.Tkaczyk, M.R. Descour, T.Christenson, and R.Richards-Kortum, " High numerical aperture microendoscope objective for a fiber confocal reflectance microscope," Opt. Express 15, 2409-2420 (2007)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-5-2409
  83. H. Luo, K. Oka, N. Hagen, T. Tkaczyk, and E. L. Dereniak, "Modeling and optimization for a prismatic snapshot imaging polarimeter," Appl. Opt. 45, 8400-8409 (2006)
  84. H. Luo, T. Tkaczyk, E. Dereniak, K. Oka, and R. Sampson, "High birefringence of the yttrium vanadate crystal in the middle wavelength infrared," Opt. Lett. 31, 616-618 (2006)
  85. J. Rogers, T. Tkaczyk, M. Descour, A. Kärkkäinen, and R. Richards-Kortum, "Removal of ghost images by using tilted element optical systems with polynomial surfaces for aberration compensation," Opt. Lett. 31, 504-506 (2006)
  86. M. Rahman, M. Abd-El-Barr, V. Mack, T. Tkaczyk, K. Sokolov, R. Richards-Kortum, M. Descour, “Optical imaging of cervical pre-cancers with structured illumination: An integrated approach”, Gynecologic Oncology 99 (3): S112-S115 Suppl. 1, (2005)
  87. T.Tkaczyk, M.Rahman, V.Mack, K.Sokolov, J.D.Rogers, R.Richards-Kortum, M.R.Descour, “High Resolution Reflectance Imaging in Optically Dense Tissue Phantoms with Structured-Illumination”, Optics Express 12, 3745 (2004)
  88. S. Rege, T. Tkaczyk, M. Descour, “Application of the Alvarez-Humphrey concept to the design of a miniaturized scanning microscope”, Optics Express, 12, 2574-2588 (2004)
  89. J. D. Rogers,  A. H. O. Kärkkäinen,  T. Tkaczyk,  J. T. Rantala, and M. Descour, "Realization of refractive microoptics through grayscale lithographic patterning of photosensitive hybrid glass," Optics Express 12, 1294-1303 (2004),
  90. T.Tkaczyk, R.Jóźwicki, “Full field heterodyne interferometer for shape measurement - experimental characteristics of the system”, Optical Engineering, vol. 42, no. 8, p. 2391-2399, 2003,
  91. K.W.Gossage, T.Tkaczyk, J.J.Rodriguez, J.K.Barton, “Texture Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Images: Feasibility for Tissue Classification”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 570-575, 2003.
  92. T.Tkaczyk; R.Jozwicki, “Influence of optical imaging on phase measurements in fringe projection coherent systems”, Optical-Engineering. vol.41, no.4; p.811-21, 2002;
  93. L.Wronkowski; T.Tkaczyk; A.Olszak Opto-electronic displacement gauge based on speckle interferometer, Optics and Lasers in Engineering. vol.32, no.1; p.65-77, 1999.
  94. B.Mroziewicz; B.Janowska-Dmoch; T.Tkaczyk; M.Gorska, A novel method of recording high frequency circular gratings, Optics and Laser Technology. vol.31, no.4, p.315-24, 1999.
  95. R.Jozwicki; T.Tkaczyk, “Problems related to numerical determination of the image given by aberrated optical system under the coherent illumination. Educational aspects”, Optica Applicata. V.29, no.1-2, p.251-6, 1999.
  96. T.Tkaczyk; B.Mroziewicz, “Semiconductor corrugated surface structures produced using interference method”, Optica Applicata. vol.26, no.3, p.185-99, 1996.