Publications by Timothé Laforest

Lock-in amplified differential phase contrast

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Timothé Laforest, Chiara Bonati

We introduce a lock-in method to increase the phase contrast in incoherent Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) imaging. The use of a smart pixel detector with in-pixel signal demodulation, paired with synchronized illumination, provides the basis of a bit-ef ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

In Vivo Retinal Pigment Epithelium Imaging using Transscleral Optical Imaging in Healthy Eyes

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

Objective: To image healthy retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in vivo using Transscleral OPtical Imaging (TOPI) and to analyze statistics of RPE cell features as a function of age, axial length (AL), and eccentricity. Design: Single-center, explorator ...

ELSEVIER2022

Human retinal pigment epithelium cells can be imaged in vivo with a novel adaptive optics camera using transscleral illumination

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2022

Lock-in incoherent differential phase contrast imaging

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Timothé Laforest, Chiara Bonati

We introduce a lock-in method to increase the phase contrast in incoherent differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging. This method improves the phase sensitivity by the analog removal of the background. The use of a smart pixel detector with in-pixel signal ...

CHINESE LASER PRESS2022

Multi-modal retinal imaging platform

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest

The invention relates to oblique transscleral illumination of an eye fundus with at least one physical point light source around the eye allowing for dark field imaging combined with optical coherence tomography imaging. ...

2021

Transscleral optical phase imaging in non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2021

Fully automated detection, segmentation, and analysis of in vivo RPE single cells

Christophe Moser, Timothé Laforest, Florentino Luciano Caetano Dos Santos, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

Objective To develop a fully automated method of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells detection, segmentation and analysis based on in vivo cellular resolution images obtained with the transscleral optical phase imaging method (TOPI). Methods Fourteen ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2021

System and methods for differential imaging using a lock-in camera

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Timothé Laforest, Chiara Bonati

The present invention describes an imaging system that allows visualization of a wide range of samples both in terms of morphology and in terms of material (e.g. density distribution, varying chemical composition, or anything that induces a change of optic ...

2021

Transscleral optical phase imaging revealing the choriocapillaris structure

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2021

Transscleral Optical Phase Imaging of healthy human Retinal Pigment Epithelium

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2021

Ophthalmic system and method for clinical device using transcleral illumination with multiple points source

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest

An ophthalmic illumination and imaging system with transscleral / transpalpebral illumination of the eye fundus comprises a light-delivering device with a plurality of emitting areas; each of the emitting areas being configured to be independently controll ...

2020

Phase sensitivity in differential phase contrast microscopy: limits and strategies to improve it

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Chiara Bonati

The phase sensitivity limit of Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) with partially coherent light is analyzed in details. The parameters to tune phase sensitivity, such as the diameter of illumination, the numerical aperture of the objective, and the noise of ...

2020

Transscleral optical phase imaging of the human retina

Christophe Moser, Dino Carpentras, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

In vivo observation of the human retina at the cellular level is crucial to detect the first signs of retinal diseases and properly treat them. Despite the phenomenal advances in adaptive optics systems, clinical imaging of many retinal cells is still elus ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Optical phase contrast imaging of human retinal cells by changing the tissue refractive index

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

Purpose : Based on oblique partially coherent illumination of transparent samples, we developed a simple custom Optical Phase Imaging (OPI) microscope providing a label-free, semi-quantitative phase contrast imaging. The aim of this study was to explore th ...

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2020

Transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI) of human retinal pigment epithelium

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2019

Phase imaging of retinal cells for clinical studies and diagnosis

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Dino Carpentras, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2018

System, method and apparatus for retinal absorption phase and dark field imaging with oblique illumination

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Dino Carpentras, Timothé Laforest

A method for imaging a tissue of an eye, the method including the steps of providing oblique illumination to the eye by a plurality of light emitting areas of a light delivery device, the plurality of light emitting areas being independently controllable a ...

2017

Overcoming the resolution limit in retinal imaging using the scattering properties of the sclera

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Dino Carpentras, Timothé Laforest

In-vivo imaging of the eye's fundus is widely used to study eye's health. State of the art Adaptive Optics devices can resolve features up to a lateral resolution of 1.5 um. This resolution is still above what is needed to observe subcellular structures su ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016