Here are some of the publications by our group.

Articles

• J. C. Y. Kah, R. C. Y. Wan, K. Y. Wong, S. Mhaisalkar, C. J. R. Sheppard, M. Olivo, "Combinational treatment of photothermal therapy using gold nanoshells with conventional photodynamic therapy to improve treatment efficacy: an in vitro study," Lasers Surg. Med. (in press, 2008).
• J. C. Y. Kah, W. K. O. Lau, P. H. Tan, C. J. R. Sheppard, M. Olivo, "Endoscopic image analysis of photosensitizer fluorescence as a promising noninvasive approach for pathological grading of bladder cancer in situ," J. Biomed. Opt. (in press, 2008).
• N. Phonthammachai, J. C. Y. Kah, G. Jun, C. J. R. Sheppard, M. C. Olivo, S. G. Mhaisalkar, T. J. White, "Synthesis of contiguous silica-gold core-shell structures: critical parameters and processes," Langmuir, Vol. 24(9), 5109-5112 (2008).
• C. J. R. Sheppard, Elijah Y. S. Yew, "Performance parameters for focusing of radial polarization," Opt. Lett., Vol. 33, 497-499 (2008)
• J. C. Y. Kah, M. C. Olivo, C. G. L. Lee, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Molecular contrast of EGFR expression using gold nanoparticles as a reflectance-based imaging probe," Mol. Cell. Probes, Vol. 22, 14-23 (2008)
• J. C. Y. Kah, N. Phonthammachai, R. C. Y. Wan, J. Song, T. J. White, S. G. Mhaisalkar, I. B. Ahmad, C. J. R. Sheppard, M. Olivo, "Synthesis of gold nanoshells based on the deposition-precipitation process," Gold Bull., Vol. 41(1), 23-35 (2008)
• Elijah Y. S. Yew, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Tight focusing of radially polarized Gaussian and Bessel-Gauss beams," Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, 3417-3419 (2007)
• L. Liu, C. Liu, C. H. Wong, C. J. R. Sheppard, N. Chen, "Binary-phase spatial filter for real-time swept-source optical coherence microscopy," Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, 2375-2377 (2007)
• J. C. Y. Kah, K. W. Kho, C. G. L. Lee, C. J. R. Sheppard, Z. X. S., K. C. Soo, M. C. Olivo., "Early diagnosis of oral cancer based on the surface plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles," Int. J. Nanomedicine, Vol. 2(4), 1–14 (2007)
• C. J. R. Sheppard, "Filter performance parameters for high-aperture focusing," Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, 1653-1655 (2007)
• C. J. R. Sheppard, S. Ledesma, J. Campos, J. C. Escalera, "Improved expressions for performance parameters for complex filters," Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, 1713-1715 (2007)
• K. W. Kho, J. C. Y. Kah, C. G. L. Lee, C. J. R. Sheppard, Z. X. Shen, K. C. Soo, M. C. Olivo, "Applications of gold nanoparticles in the early detection of cancer," J. Mech. Med. Biol., Vol. 7(1), 1-17 (2007)
• C. J. R. Sheppard, "Fractal model of light scattering in biological tissue and cells," Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, 142-144 (2007)
• S. S. Kou, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Imaging in digital holographic microscopy," Opt. Express, Vol. 15, 13640-13648 (2007)
• Y. Xu, J. Singh, C. J. R. Sheppard, N. Chen, "Ultra long high resolution beam by multi-zone rotationally symmetrical complex pupil filter," Opt. Express, Vol. 15, 6409-6413 (2007)
• W. T. Tang, E. Chung, Y. Kim, P. T. C. So, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Investigation of the point spread function of surface plasmon-coupled emission microscopy," Opt. Express, Vol. 15, 4634-4646 (2007)
• C. Liu, Z. Huang, F. Lu, W. Zheng, D.r W. Hutmacher, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Near-field effects on coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy imaging," Opt. Express, Vol. 15, 4118-4131 (2007)
• E. Yew, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Second harmonic generation polarization microscopy with tightly focused linearly and radially polarized beams," Opt. Comm., Vol. 275, 453-457 (2007)
• E. Yew, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Effects of axial field components on second harmonic generation microscopy," Opt. Express, Vol. 14, 1167-1174 (2006)
• J. C. Y. Kah, M. C. Olivo, C. G. L. Lee, C. J. R. Sheppard, "Antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles and its interaction with epithelial carcinoma cells for optical molecular imaging," Ann. Acad. Med., Vol. 34(9), S231 (2005)