Two-wavelength oximetry of tissue microcirculation based on sidestream dark-field imaging.

Monitoring oxygen saturation (SO2) in microcirculation is effective for understanding disease dynamics. We have developed an SO2 estimation method, sidestream dark-field (SDF) oximetry, based on SDF imaging. SDF imaging is a noninvasive and clinically applicable technique to observe microcirculation.

Impact of vessel diameter and bandwidth of illumination in sidestream dark-field oximetry.

We investigate the possibility of oxygen saturation estimation from images obtained by the sidestream dark-field (SDF) technique. The SDF technique is a method for microvascular imaging. In SDF imaging, light enters a tissue directly from illumination sources configured around a camera and then the camera captures the light scattered by the tissue.