Information Exchange

In the interest of determining the relative merits of different instruments and reconstruction techniques, we wish to encourage the exchange of data, software, and phantoms between research groups working in the biomedical optics community.

1. Phantoms

Research groups wishing to borrow the tissue-equivalent phantoms described on this website or in any of our publications are invited to contact Jem Hebden. A detailed description of most of our solid imaging phantoms is available by clicking here. Please note that while we are very happy to advise other researchers on the manufacture of their own phantoms for near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, we are unable to manufacture phantoms for sale, and generally do not make phantoms specifically for other groups except when it involves a formal collaboration.

2. Software

Editions of the TOAST image reconstruction software is available for download. Please click here to visit the TOAST website, or contact Martin Schweiger.

3. Data

Investigators are particularly welcome to evaluate their own reconstruction algorithm using our time-resolved imaging data. A limited amount of data are already available for download (click here), although interested researchers are advised to contact us by email to ensure that we can provide the most suitable and most recent data for their specific application.

4. Publications

Many of our recent publications are available for download in PDF format (a free copy of the Acrobat Reader is available from Adobe Systems Inc). Click here for recent MONSTIR-related publications, or click here for a comprehensive list covering all the activities of the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory at UCL since 1986.