Publications:

Papers:

  1. J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Hollow tubes for transmitting IR laser energy for surgery applications" Israel Journal of Technology, Vol 24, pages 599-610, 1988.
  2. I. Kaplan, S. Giler, J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Preliminary experiments of possible uses in medicine of novel plastic hollow fibers for transmission of CO2 radiation" Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Vol 10, pages 291-294, 1990.
  3. N. Croitoru, J. Dror and I. Gannot "Characterization of hollow plastic fibers for the transmission of infra-red radiation" Applied Optics, Vol 29, pages 1805-1809, 1990.
  4. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Gannot, R. Dahan and S. Calderon "Hollow Fibers for Mid Infrared and Applications in Medicine" Romanian Physics Review, Vol. 36, pages 667-673, 1991.
  5. O. Mor-Haim, D. Mendlovic, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "Ray model for transmission of IR radiation through multi bent cylindrical waveguides" Optical engineering, vol 30, pp 1886- 1891, 1991.
  6. I. Kaplan, S. Giler, J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru, "Experimental Surgery on Dog's Stomach and Liver using CO2 Laser Plastic Hollow Fibers: Technical Method" Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery. Vol 10, pp 115-118, 1992.
  7. S. Brener, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Laser Tissue Interaction", Skin Update, The Israel Dermatological Society, pages 16-22, no. 9, October 1993.
  8. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon, "Flexible Waveguides for IR Laser Radiation Transmission for Surgery Applications" Laser Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 184-189, 1994.
  9. I. Gannot, S. Calderon, T. Ertl, S. Schrunder, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "In-vitro Experimental Study of Er-YAG and CO2 Lasers in Implant Exposure", Lasermedizin, Vol. 10 pp 165-168, 1994.
  10. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, G. Gal and N. Croitoru, "The Use of Flexible Hollow Waveguides for CO2 Laser Transmission in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery", Realites Cliniques, Vol. 5, pp 293-300, 1994.
  11. I. Gannot, M. Alaluf, J. Dror, J. Tschepe, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Thermal effects due to interaction of IR Radiation with guiding films of hollow waveguides" Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, pp 612-615, 1995.
  12. I. Gannot, S. Schrunder, J. Dror, A. Inberg, T. Ertl, J. Tschepe, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Flexible waveguides for Er-YAG laser radiation delivery, IEEE-Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp 967-972, October 1995.
  13. A.H. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, "Flourescence imaging of specific markers of disease applying random walk theory.", IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 2 no. 4, pp. 914-921, December 1996.
  14. I. Gannot, A. Inberg, M. Oxman, N. Croitoru and R. W. Waynant, ¡°Current status of flexible waveguides for infrared laser radiation transmission¡±, IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, pp. 880-889, December 1996
  15. I. Gannot, A. Inberg, N. Croitoru and R. W. Waynant, ¡±Flexible Waveguides for Free Electron Laser Radiation Transmission¡±, Applied Optics, Vol. 36, No. 25, pp 6289-6293, September 1997.
  16. I. Gannot, A.H. Gandjbakhche, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, and R.F. Bonner, ¡°Optical Simulations Experiments for Development of a Non-invasive Technique for the Diagnosis of Diseased Salivary Glands in situ ¡°,Medical Physics, Vol. 27, no. 7 pp 1139-144, 1998.
  17. V. Chermomordik, D. Hattery, I. Gannot and A. H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Inverse Method 3-D Reconstruction of Localized in vivo Fluorescence-Application to Sjogren¡¯s Syndrome¡±, IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, pp. 930-935, July/August 1999.
  18. A. M. Sagi-Dolev, G. R. Harris, R. W. Waynant and I. Gannot, ¡°Laser Induced Acoustic Stresses Under Submerged Biological Membranes¡±, pp 1027-1031, IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, pp. 930-935, July/August 1999.
  19. M. Ben David, A. Inberg, I. Gannot N. Croitoru, The effect of scattering on the Transmission of Infrared Radiation Through Hollow, Waveguides¡±, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, pp 23-30, September 1999.
  20. R. Waynant, I. Ilev and I. Gannot, ¡°Mid IR Medical Applications¡±, The Royal Society Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 359 (1780): 635-644, March, 2001.
  21. Pascut FC, Xiao P, O'Driscoll DG, Katzir A, Gannot I, Croitoru N, Notingher I, Imhof RE" Fibre-optic hand held probe for opto-thermal in-vivo skin measurements, ANALYTICAL SCIENCES 17: S368-S370 Sp. Iss. SI, 2001.
  22. D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Analytical Solutions for Time-Resolved Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Turbid Media Such as Tissue¡±, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Volume 18, Issue 7, 1523-1530, July 2001.
  23. I. Gannot, M. Ben-David, A. Inberg and N. Croitoru., ¡°Broadband omnidirectional IR flexible waveguides, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 933-935, December 2001.
  24. I. Gannot, M. Ben David, N. Croitoru, A. Inberg, M. Oksman, R. Waynant, ¡°Beam Shape analysis of waveguide delivered IR lasers¡±, Journal of Optical Engineering, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 244-250, January 2002.
  25. I. Gannot, G. Gannot, A. Garashi, A. Gandjbakhche, A. Buchner and Y. Keisari. ¡°Laser activated fluorescence measurements and morphological features-An in vivo study of clearance time of FITC tagged cell markers¡±, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 14-19, January 2002.
  26. I. Gannot, A. Langus and C. Fuchs, ¡°Subjects' dissimilarity in the analysis of laser-tissue dose -response experiments: a potential cause for puzzling results¡±, Lasers in Medical Sciences, 17, 13-18, March 2002.
  27. G. Gannot, I. Gannot, A. Buchner, H. Vered and Y. Keisari, ¡°Increase in immune cell infiltration with progression of oral epithelium from hyperkeratosis to dysplasia and carcinoma, , British Journal of Cancer Vol. 86, no. 9, pp 1444-1448, May 2002.
  28. V. Chernomordik, D. W. Hattery, I. Gannot, G. Zaccanti and A. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Analytical Calculation of the Mean Time Spent by Photons inside an Absorptive Inclusion Embedded in a Highly Scattering Medium¡±, J Biomed Opt.;Vol. 7 no. 3: pp: 486-92, July 2002.
  29. I. Gannot, A. Garashi, G. Gannot, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche, Quantitative 3-D imaging of tumor labeled with exogenous specific fluorescence markers, Applied Optics, Vol. 42 no. 15. pp 3073-3080, June 2003.
  30. A. H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, M. Hassan and I. Gannot, ¡°Tissue Characterization by Quantitative Optical Imaging Methods¡°,Volume 2 Issue Number 6, December 2003
  31. I. Gannot, A. Garashi, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche, ¡°In-vivo Quantitative optical imaging of pharmacokinetics of specific fluorescent tumor markers through turbid media such as tissue, Optics letters, Volume 29, Issue 7, pp. 742-744, April 2004.
  32. N. Croitoru, A. Inberg, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, ¡°Broad Band and Low Loss Mid-IR Flexible Hollow Waveguides¡±, Optics Express, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp 1341-1352 April 5, 2004.
  33. V. Gopel, JA Harrington, A. Goren and I. Gannot, Coherent, hollow-core waveguide bundles for infrared imaging, optical Engineering, Vol. 43 no. 5 pp 1195-1199 May 2004.
  34. A. Dayan, A. Goren and I. Gannot, "Theoretical and experimental investigation of the thermal effects within body cavities during transendoscopical CO2 laser-based surgery", Lasers Surgery and Medicine, VOL. 35, Issue 1, pp 18-27, July 2004.
  35. I. Gannot, R. Izhar, F. Hekmat, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Functional optical detection based on pH dependent fluorescence lifetime¡±, Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, VOL. 35, Issue, 5, pp 342-348, 2004 36. M. Ben-David, IK. Ilev, RW. Waynant, and I. Gannot, Pulse dispersion in hollow optical waveguides, Volume 44, Issue 9, Article no. 095001September 2005
  36. G. Fibich , A. Hammer, G. Gannot, A. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, ¡°Modeling and Simulations of the Pharmacokinetics of Fluorophore conjugated Antibodies in tumor vicinity for the optimization of fluorescence based optical imaging Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. Aug; 37(2):155-60, 2005
  37. A. Vogel, A. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, ¡°Demistifying Optical Diagnostics¡±, Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, Volume 14, Number 1 pp, 55 ? 72, January 2006
  38. I. Gannot, ¡°Thermal imaging bundle-A potential tool to enhance minimally invasive medical procedures¡±, IEEE CIRCUITS & DEVICES 21 (6): 28-33 NOV-DEC 2005
  39. J. Raif, M Vardi, , O Nahlieli and I Gannot, ¡°An Er:YAG Laser Endoscopic Fiber Delivery System for Lithotripsy of Salivary Stones¡±, Lasers Surgery and Medicine, March 2006.
  40. G. Fibich I. Gannot A. Hammer S. Schochet, ¡°Chemical kinetics on surfaces: A Singular Limit of a Reaction-Diffusion System in a Model of Antibody Imaging¡±, SIAM J. MATH. ANAL. Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 1371?1388, December 2006.
  41. Ilko Ilev, Ronald Waynant, Israel Gannot, and Amir Gandjbakhche, a simple fiber-optic confocal microscopy with nanoscale depth resolution beyond the diffraction barrier, Review of Scientific Instruments 78, September 2007.
  42. M. Ben-David, Merav Catalogna, James Harrington and Israel Gannot, " Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Metal Sulfide Dielectric Coatings for Hollow Waveguides, OPTICAL ENGINEERING Volume: 47 Issue: 4 Article Number: 045008 Published: APR 2008
  43. T. Eruv, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, ¡°An alternative approach to analyze fluorescence lifetime images for early tumor diagnosis, Accepted for publication in the the journal of Quantum electronics, Volume 14, Issue 1, Jan.-feb. 2008 Page(s):98 - 104
  44. M. Ben-David, R. Cantor, N. Balbul, M. Yehuda and I. Gannot, ¡°Measuring Tissue Heat Penetration By Scattered Light Measurements¡±, Accepted for publication, The Journal of Lasers Medicine and Surgery, April 2008.
  45. I. M. Gescheit, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, ¡° A proposed method for Thermal Specific Bio-Imaging and Therapy Technique for Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Tumors by Using Magnetic Nano-Particles, Advances in Optical Technologies, Volume July 2008, Article ID 275080

Book chapters:

  1. I. Gannot, and Moshe Ben-David, ¡°Fiberoptic Delivery systems¡±, Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering, Invited chapter.
  2. I. Gannot and Moshe Ben-David, ¡°Optical Fibers and Waveguides for Medical Applications¡±, Biomedical Photonics handbook¡±, CRC press, 2003, Chapter 7, pages 7.1-7.22, Invited chapter.
  3. M. Hassan, V. Chernomordik, A. Vogel, D. Hattery, I. Gannot, R. Yarchoan and Amir H. Gandjbakhche, Infrared imaging for tissue characterization and function, The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Third edition, CRC and IEEE press, 2004.
  4. I. Ilev and I. Gannot, ¡°"Fiber Optic Sensors" Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Marcel Dekker Invited chapter, 28 November 2005.
  5. Moshe Ben-David and Israel Gannot, ¡°Fibers and Waveguides for Medical Applications¡±, chapter 1, pages 1-24, in ADVANCES IN BIOPHOTONICS, IOS Press and Springer Science, 2005 6. Moshe Ben-David I. Gannot, ¡°Optical Fibers for Biomedical Applications¡±, invited chapter in: ¡°Specialty Optical Fibres Handbook¡±, A. Mendez & T.F. Morse, Eds. Elsevier Publishing Co., 15 December 2006.
  6. I. Gannot, ¡°Optical imaging based on nanoparticles and fluorescent probes¡±, NATO Book on Photon-based Nanoscience and Technology: Materials, Diagnostics and Nanobiodevices, Invited chapter, November 2005.

Proceedings book editor:

  1. I. Gannot, Y. V. Gulyaev, T. G. Papazoglou and C. F. P. Van Swol, Biomonitoring and Endoscopy Technologies, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, Vol. 1 No. 29, 2000.
  2. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications I, Vol. 4253, 2001.
  3. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications II, Vol 4616, 2002.
  4. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications III, Vol 4957, 2003.
  5. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications IV, Vol 5317, 2004.
  6. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications V, Vol 5691, 2005.
  7. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VI, Vol. 6083, 2006.
  8. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VII, Vol. 6433, 2007.
  9. I. Gannot, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII, Vol. 6852, 2008.

Conference Proceedings: (all proceeding papers no abstracts only)

  1. J. Dror, I. Gannot, O. Mor-Haim, D. Mendlovic and N. Croitoru "CO2 laser radiation transmission through curved hollow fibers", The sixth Meeting in Israel on Optical Engineering Tel-Aviv, December 19-21,1988.
  2. J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Hollow tubes for transmitting IR laser energy for surgery application" SPIE OE/LASE '89, Los-Angeles, January 15-20, 1989.
  3. I. Kaplan, S. Giler, J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Application of plastic hollow fibers in CO2 laser surgery", vol 1067 pages 260-263 SPIE OE/LASE '89, Los-Angeles, January 15-20, 1989.
  4. J. Dror, D. Mendlovic, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru "Hollow plastic waveguides for CO2 laser energy transmission" Israel physics society meeting Technion, conference proceedings Haifa, March 28-29, 1989.
  5. I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "Hollow plastic fibers for CO2 laser surgery-characterization and modelling" 9th. conf. of the American society of laser in medicine and surgery, vol 9 suppl 1 page 33, Arlington, Virginia, April 15-17, 1989.
  6. N. Croitoru, J. Dror I. Gannot and L. Arcan "Characterization of plastic hollow fibers for transmitting CO2 laser radiation for medical use" The international congress on optical science and engineering, conference proceedings 6 pages, The Hauge Nederland, March, 12-16 1990.
  7. A.Y. Kaufman, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "Stainless steel needles as hollow waveguides for CO2 laser radiation transmission and endodontic treatment experiments" 10th conf. of the American Society of Laser in Medicine and Surgery, Nashville Tennessee, April 6-8 1990.
  8. A.Y. Kaufman, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "Thin hollow waveguides for CO2 laser radiation transmission used for endodontic treatment" 2nd Congress in low power laser in Medicine, Tokyo, september 1990
  9. I. Kaplan, S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, "Clinical application of flexible plastic waveguides for the CO2 laser power transmission" 5th. Int. Congress of the European Laser Association, conference proceedings, Graz, Austria, 8-11 November 1990.
  10. I. Gannot, J. Dror, R. Dahan, M. Alaluf, and N. Croitoru "Characterization and uses of plastic hollow fibers for CO2 laser energy transmission" The 7th meeting of optical Engineering in Israel, conference proceedings, Tel-Aviv, 12-14 December 1990.
  11. R. Dahan, J. Dror, I. Gannot, and N. Croitoru "Structure analysis of the deposited mettalic and dielectric layers in plastic hollow fibers" 5th Israel materials engineering conference IMEC-V, conference proceedings, Haifa 19-20 December 1990.
  12. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "Plastic hollow fibers employed for CO2 laser power transmission in oral surgery", SPIE Biomedical Optics, vol 1420 pages 108-115, Los- Angeles, U.S.A. 20-25 January 1991.
  13. D. Kempler, I. Gannot R. Dahan, J. Dror and N. Croitoru "CO2 laser radiation transmitted through a flexible hollow fiber: effects on human enamel" IADAR/AADR Conference Acapulco, Mexico April 17-21 1991.
  14. N. Croitoru, I. Kaplan, S. Calderon, I. Gannot and J. Dror, "Clinical Applications of Flexible Plastic Waveguides for the CO2 Laser Power Radiation" Laser '91, conference proceedings pages 7- 10, Munchen, Germany, 13-14 June, 1991.
  15. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, "Clinical Uses of the Plastic Hollow Fibers for CO2 Laser Radiation Transmission in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery" Congress of the International Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Anneheim, California, October 1991. 16. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror, and N. Croitoru "Clinical uses of plastic hollow fibers for CO2 laser radiation transmission in oral and Maxillo-facial surgery" SPIE OE/LASE Los-Angeles, California, 19-25 January 1992.
  16. I. Gannot, J. Dror, R. Dahan and N. Croitoru "Improved plastic hollow fibers for CO2 laser radiation transmission for possible endoscopic uses" SPIE OE/LASE vol 1649 pages 24-33, Los-Angeles, California 19-25 January 1992.
  17. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru,I. Kaplan, S. Calderon. Flexible waveguides for IR laser radiation transmission for surgery applications" American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, vol 12 suppl. 4 page 42, 12th meeting, Orlando, Florida, 17- 19 May 1992.
  18. N. Croitoru, I. Gannot, J. Dror, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon, "Clinical Applications of the Flexible Plastic Hollow Waveguides" The German Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, conference proceedings, Munster, Germany, 17-19 November 1992.
  19. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru,I. Kaplan, S. Calderon. "Medical Applications of Plastic Hollow Waveguides" The 8th Conference of Optical Engineering in Israel, conference proceedings, Tel- Aviv 14-16 December, 1992.
  20. N. Croitoru, I. Gannot, J. Dror, A. Imber, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon, "Flexible Waveguides for Transmission of IR Radiation and Surgical Applications" SPIE Bio-Medical Optics, vol 1893 122-127, Los-Angeles, California, 19-25 January 1993.
  21. I. Gannot, S. Schrunder, T. Ertl, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Flexible Waveguides for The Delivery of High Power Er-YAG Laser Radiation" SPIE Bio-Medical Optics, vol 1893 pages 188-194 Los-Angeles, California, 19-25 January, 1993.
  22. I. Gannot, S. Schrunder, T. Ertl, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Mulller and N. Croitoru "Multi-Wavelength Flexible Waveguides" American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, vol 13 suppl. 5 page 119, 13th Meeting, New-Orleans, 18-20 April, 1993.
  23. I. Gannot, S. Schrulnder, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, T. Ertl, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, Flexible WAveguides for Er-YAG Laser Radiation Transmission" Laser '93, Munich, 22-26 June, 1993.
  24. I. Gannot, S. Schrunder, J. Tschepe, T. Ertl, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, Er-YAG Laser Flexible Waveguides" International Symposium on Bio-Medical Optics Europe '93, vol 2084, pages 1-3, Budapest, Hungary, September, 1993.
  25. I. Gannot, J. Dror, T. Abel, J. Harrington and N. Croitoru, Optical Characterisation of Flexible Plastic Hollow Waveguides for CO2 Laser Delivery, International Symposium on Bio-Medical Optics Europe '93, vol 2084, pages 66-73, Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 September, 1993.
  26. I. Gannot , J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Thermal measurements of flexible plastic hollow waveguides" International Symposium on Bio-Medical Optics Europe '93, vol 2084, pages 59-65, , Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 September, 1993.
  27. I. Gannot, J. Dror, A. Inberg, N. Croitoru, S. Schrunder, J. Tschepe and G. Mulller , "Flexible Plastic Waveguides Suitable for Large Interval of the Infrared Radiation Spectrum", SPIE/Biomedical Optics January 1994.
  28. I. Gannot, J. Tschepe, S. Schrunder, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Pulsed Lasers Transmission by the Flexible Waveguides", Europto, Lille, France, September 1994.
  29. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, G. Gal, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, "Treatments of Physiological Gingival Pigmentation Usng CO2 Flexible Waveguides", Europto, Lille, France, September 1994.
  30. A. Elboim, I. Gannot, J. Dror, A. Inberg and N. Croitoru, "Temperature distribution on flexible waveguides during laser energy transmission",SPIE/Bio-Medical Optics, February 1995.
  31. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, "Treatments in the Oral Cavity employing Flexible Waveguides", SPIE/Bio-Medical Optics proceedings in Laser in dentistry , San-Jose, CA San-Jose, CA, February 1995.
  32. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, "Salivary Glands Surgical Treatments employing Flexible Waveguides", 15th, conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, San-Diego CA, April 1995.
  33. A. Gandjbakhche, R. F. Bonner, I. Gannot. R. Nossel and G. H. Weiss. "In-vivo Optical Tomography", NIH days, National Institute of Health, September 18-22, 1995.
  34. I. Gannot, R. Waynant, J. Dror, A. Inberg and N. Croitoru, ¡°Experiments in Transmission of Free Electron Laser Radiation By Flexible Waveguides¡±, SPIE/Biomedical fiber optics and Lasers Systems, Proceeding Vol. 2677, pp 99-102, 1996.
  35. A. H. Gandjbakhche, R. F. Bonner, I. Gannot, J. Knutson, R. Navai, R. Nossal and G. H. Weiss, ¡°Fluorescent photon migration theory for turbid biological media, SPIE/Advances in Laser and Light Spectroscopy to Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases III: Optical Biopsy Proceedings no 2679, pp 8-15, 1996.
  36. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru and R. Waynant, "Free Electron Laser Radiation Transmitting Flexible Waveguide", American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 14-17, 1996.
  37. I. Gannot, A. H. Gandjbakhche, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, H. Koch and R. F. Bonner, "Non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of diseased salivary glands in situ", Optical Society of America Meeting on Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy and Diagnostics, Orlando, Florida, March 8-22, 1996.
  38. Gannot I, ¡°Flexible Waveguides for Free Electron Laser Radiation¡±, Gordon Conference, Merriden New-Hampshire, June 30-July 5, 1996.
  39. I. Gannot, ¡°Non-Invasive Method for the Diagnosis of Diseased Salivary Glands in Situ¡±, Gordon Conference, Merriden New-Hampshire, June 30-July 5, 1996.
  40. I. Gannot, N. Croitoru and R. Waynant, ¡°Broadband Waveguides and Fibers for FEL Delivery¡±, 18th International FEL Conference and III Users Workshop, Rome, Italy August, 26-31, 1996.
  41. I. Gannot, A. Inberg, I. Croitoru and R. W. Waynant, ¡°Development of flexible waveguides for Free electron Lasers¡±, Europto Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 1996.
  42. I. Gannot and R. W. Waynant, ¡°Optical Waveguides for Infrared Laser Sources¡±, LEOS ¡®96, 9th meeting, November 18-21, 1996.
  43. A. H. Gandjbakhche, I. Gannot, and R. F. Bonner, ¡°Photon migration theory applied to 3D optical imaging of tissue¡±, LEOS ¡®96, 9th meeting, November 18-21, 1996.
  44. I. Gannot, R.F. Bonner, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, J.S. You, R.W. Waynant and A.H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Quantitative detection of multiple fluorophore sites as a tool for diagnosis and monitoring disease progression in salivary glands¡±, SPIE/Optical tomography and spectroscopy of tissue. 1997.
  45. I. Gannot, N. Croitoru , A. Inberg and R. W. Waynant, ¡°Refined broadband waveguides and fibers for fel delivery¡±, presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the American societey for laser medicine and surgery meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1997.
  46. G. Gannot, I. Gannot, A.H. Gandjbakhche, P.C. Fox and R.F. Bonner, ¡°Development of a non-invasive method to diagnose Sjogren¡¯s syndrome¡±, AADR/IADR Meeting in Orlando Florida, March 19-23, 1997.
  47. R. W. Waynant and I. Gannot ¡°Development of Infrared Waveguides, Fibers and Focusing Surgical Devices for New Laser Surgery Procedures¡±, ATACCC'97, Fort Walton Beach, FL, May 20, 1997.
  48. I. Gannot, N. Croitoru , A. Inberg, and R. W. Waynant, ¡°Broadband Waveguides for FEL Delivery¡±, Europto ¡®97, San-Remo, Italy, September 1997.
  49. A. H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, R. F. Bonner, P. D. Smith and I. Gannot, ¡°Improvements in Inverse Method 3D Reconstruction of Localized in vivo Fluorescence applied for Sjogren's Syndrome Detection and Monitoring¡± SPIE conference of least invasive diagnostics, San-Jose CA, January 1998.
  50. N. I. Croitoru,; I. Gannot, A. Inberg, M. Oksman, M. B. David, R. W. Waynant, A. Katzir, "Beam Profile analysis of Waveguide delivered IR Lasers", SPIE confrence on Specialty Fiber Optics for Medical Applications, January 1999.
  51. A. Langus, C. Fuchs, and I. Gannot, ¡°Unconsidered subject dissimilarity: a possible key for understanding confusing laser-tissue experiment results¡±, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3591, p. 359-367, Ophthalmic Technologies IX, 1999.
  52. D. W. Hattery, V. V. Chernomordik, M. H. Loew, I. Gannot, and A. H. Gandjbakhche, "Time-Resolved Fluorescent Imaging in Tissue", medical imaging, February 1999.
  53. R. W. Waynant, I. K. Ilev and I. Gannot, Medical applications of infrared fibers and waveguides (Invited Paper), Infrared Optical Fibers and Their Applications Conference, Boston, MA September 1999.
  54. D. W. Hattery, V. V. Chernomordik, I. Gannot, M. H. Loew and A. H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Time resolved lifetime imaging in tissue¡±, Optical Biopsy, BIOS 2000, San-Jose CA, January 2000.
  55. D. W. Hattery, V. Chernomordik , I. Gannot , M. Loew and A. H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Quantifying Fluorescent Lifetime of Deeply Embedded Sources in Turbid Media¡±, OSA topical meeting, Miami FL, April 2000.
  56. D. W. Hattery, V. Chermomordik, I. Gannot, M. Loew and A. H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Measurement of Localized, deeply Embedded Physiological Processes, Medical Imaging, San-Diego, CA. February 2000.
  57. I. Gannot M. Ben-David, , A. Inberg, N. Croitoru, ¡°Bending effect on IR hollow waveguides transmission¡±, EBIOS, Amsterdam, July 2000.
  58. I. Gannot, M. Ben-David, A. Inberg, N. Croitoru and A. Katzir, Mid-IR Optimized Multi layer Hollow Waveguides, BIOS 2001,Vol. 4253, pp. 11-18, 2001.
  59. I. Gannot, M. Ben-David, A. Inberg, G. Revsin and N. Croitoru, ¡°Electroless deposited broadband omnidirectional multilayer reflectors for mid-infrared lasers, BIOS, Optical fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, Vol. 4616, pp.97-104, 2002.
  60. V. Chernomordik, D. W. Hattery, A. Gandjbakhche, I. Gannot and G. Zaccanti, ¡°Non Linear Correction factor for accurate reconstruction of non localized absorptive abnormalities¡±, OSA Biomedical Topical meeting, Miami Beach, FL. April 7-10, 2002.
  61. I. Gannot, A. Garashi, G. Gannot, V. Chernomordik and , A. Gandjbakhche, In-Vivo Optical fluorescence biopsy, Gordon conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology, New-Hampshire, July 2002.
  62. A. Langus, C. Fuchs, I. Gannot New experimental analysis method clarifies spectral threshold of laser ocular bioeffects, Photonics West, 2003.
  63. A. Cohen, A. Dayan and I. Gannot, Transendoscopic fiber optic based surgical procedure within body cavities, Photonics West, 2003.
  64. I. Gannot A. Garashi, G. Gannot, V. V. Chernomordik, and A. H. Gandjbakhche, Fluorescence imaging of exogenous specific fluorescence markers deep within the tissue, , Photonics West, 2003.
  65. I. Gannot, R. Izhar, F. Hekmat and A. Gandjbakhche, Optical Functional Imaging of Tissue Through Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement of Specific Markers as a Potential Tool for Early Cancer Detection, The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Meeting, Anaheim, CA., April, 2003.
  66. V. Chernomordik, I. Gannot, A. Garashi, G. Gannot, and A. Gandjbakhche, Quantitative optical imaging and 3-D localization of exogeneous specific markers, conjugated to squamous cell carcinoma deeply embedded inside the turbid medium, The International conference on advanced laser technologies 11th annual meeting focused on biomedical optics, , Cranfield University at Silsoe Conference Center, Bedfordshire, UK. 19-23 September 2003.
  67. I. Gannot, A. Goren, V. Gopal, G. Revezin, J. Harrington, Thermal imaging through IR hollow waveguides bundles, , Optical fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, BIOS 2004, San-Jose, CA., January 2004.
  68. I. Gannot, V. Chernomordik, A. Garashi and A. Gandjbachkhe, Optical Imaging of the pharmakokinetics of specific fluorescent markers through turbid media, , Optical Biopsy, BIOS 2004, San-Jose, CA., January 2004.
  69. D. W. Hattery, I. Gannot, M. Hassan, A. Gandjbakhche, Oxygen-sensing fluorescent lifetime-based probe for in vivo tumor assessments, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing V, BIOS 2005, January 2005.
  70. I. Gannot, Tel-Aviv University-Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit II, Lansdowne, VA, March 3-6, 2005.
  71. M. Hassan, I. Gannot, V. Chernomordik, P. Smith, R. Pursley and A. Gandjbakhche, A scanning system for Fluorescence lifetime imaging, the Optical Biopsy conference, BIOS 2006, San-Jose, CA.
  72. I. Abdulhalim and I. Gannot, ¡°All-Fiber and Fiber Compatible Acousto-optic Modulators with Potential Biomedical Applications¡±, Optical Fibers and sensors for medical applications conference, BIOS 2006, San-Jose, CA.
  73. M. Ben-David, M. Catalogna, I. Gannot, V. Gopal and J. Harrington, ¡°Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Metal Sulfide Dielectric Coatings for Hollow Waveguides¡±, Optical Fibers and sensors for medical applications conference, BIOS 2006, San-Jose, CA.
  74. I. Gannot, "Sensing for the smart medical home", Optical Fibers and sensors for medical applications conference, BIOS 2007, January 2007, San-Jose, CA.
  75. I. Gannot and T. Eruv, "Fluorescence Lifetime Based Functional Optical as a tool for Early Detection of Cancer", The 11th meeting on Optical Engineering and Science in Israel, March 26, 27, 2007, Tel-Aviv Israel.
  76. M. Ben-David; I. Braunstein; I. Gannot, Theoretical investigation of single wavelength hollow waveguide sensor for chemical materials sensing, Proceedings Vol. 6852, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII, Israel Gannot, Editor, 68520B. 2008.
  77. A. Levy and I. Gannot, Infrared imaging for tumor detection using antibodies conjugated gold magnetic nanoparticles. SPIE/Europe, April 2008, Strassbourg, France.
  78. D. Litvak, Y. zigel and Israel Gannot, ¡°Fall Detection of elderly through floor vibrations and sound¡± 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, 2008, Vancouver, Canada. 80. A. Levy and I. Gannot, ¡°Biophotonic Diagnosis and Treatment¡±, 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society with LEOS joint symposium, August 20-24, 2008, Vancouver, Canada. Invited.

Invited plennary talk:

    ¡°Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical applications¡± Plenary session at SPIE Photonics West Meeting San-Jose January 2004.

Patents:

  1. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot "Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same" Israeli patent 82296, May 6th, 1988.
  2. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot "Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same" U.S. Patent 4,930,863 June 5, 1990.
  3. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot, "Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same" European patent no. 89107926.1, 1990.
  4. I. Kaplan, N. Croitoru, J. Dror and I. Gannot "Flexible Laser Waveguides" Isr. Patent Application no. 105956, June 8 1993.
  5. N. Croitoru, I. Gannot, J. Dror and R. Dahan, "Hollow Waveguides Tips for controlling Beam Divergence and Methods of making Same", Israeli Pattent no. 106302 July 1993.
  6. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Gannot, R. Dahan; "Hollow waveguide tips for controlling beam divergence and method of making such tips" US patent 5,497,441, Mar. 5, 1996.
  7. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Kaplan, I. Gannot, "Laser beam waveguide and laser beam delivery system including same", 5,497,440, Mar. 5, 1996.
  8. Israel Gannot, Alon Cohen and Avraham Dayan, Minimally Invasive Controlled Surgical System with Feedback, US-2006-0052661-A1. (March 2006)
  9. Ilko Ilev, Ron Waynant, Israel Gannot and Amir Gandjbachkhe, ¡°Ultrahigh-Resolution Fiber-Optic Confocal Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Barrier in the Nanometric Scale¡±, patent application November 2004.
  10. Israel Gannot and Alon Goren, ¡°Method and apparatus for selective heating of tumors for the dual purpose of (a) enhancing the specificity and the sensitivity of thermal imaging as a diagnostic tool and/or for (b) selective, non-invasive targeted thermotherapy, PCT 30340 July 2005.
  11. I. Gannot, Iddo Gescheit and Abraham Dayan, Infrared Specific Bio-Imaging, application no. 60/854,687.
  12. Moshe Ben-David and Israel Gannot, Tissue monitoring, provisional application, August 2007.
  13. I. Gannot, D. Litvak and Y. Zigel, ¡°Fall Detection of elderly through floor vibrations and sound¡±, Provisional application No. 61/064,508, 11 March 2008.

Presentations:

  1. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon "Flexible Waveguides for IR Laser Radiation Transmission for Surgery Applications" Orlando, Florida, May 17-19, 1992.
  2. I. Gannot "Flexible Waveguides for IR Laser Radiation Transmission for Surgical Applications", Invited Seminar, Laser in Medicine Center, Freie Universitat, Berlin, October 14, 1992.
  3. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon "Medical Applications of Plastic Hollow Waveguides", The 8th Conference of Optical Engineering in Israel, Tel-Aviv, December 14-16, 1992.
  4. I. Gannot, S. Schrunder, T. Ertl, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Muller and N. Croitoru, "Multi Wavelength Flexible Waveguide", American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, 13th Meeting, New-Orleans, Louisiana, April 18-20, 1993.
  5. I. Gannot, "Multi Wavelength Flexible Waveguides for Medical Applications", Invited Seminar, Fiber Optic Materials Research Program, Rutgers, The State University of New-Jersey, April 29, 1993.
  6. I. Gannot, "Investigation of the Flexible Waveguide Transmitting IR Laser Radiation and the Interaction of the Radiation Emerging from the Waveguide with Tissue" Seminar, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, July 14, 1994.
  7. I. Gannot, "Treatments in the Oral Cavity employing Flexible Waveguides", SPIE/Bio-Medical Optics proceedings in Laser in dentistry, February 1995, San-Jose, CA.
  8. I. Gannot, "Flexible waveguides for medical applications", FDA/CDRH, March 16, 1995.
  9. I. Gannot, ¡°Experiments in Transmission of Free Electron Laser Radiation By Flexible Waveguides¡±, SPIE/Biomedical fiber optics and Lasers Systems, Proceeding Vol. 2677, 1996.
  10. I. Gannot, "Non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of diseased salivary glands in situ", Optical Society of America Meeting on Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy and Diagnostics, Orlando, Florida, March 8-22, 1996.
  11. I. Gannot and A. H. Gandjbakhche, "Non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of diseased salivary glands in situ", National Institute of Dental research, NIH, Bethesda MD, May 1996, Invited.
  12. I. Gannot, ¡°Optical Biopsy - an non invasive tool to diagnose a diseased tissue in-vivo¡±, Tel-Aviv University, August 1996.
  13. I. Gannot, ¡°Optical Waveguides for Infrared Laser Sources¡±, LEOS ¡®96, 9th meeting, November 18-21, 1996. Invited.
  14. I. Gannot, R.F. Bonner, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, J.S. You, R.W. Waynant and A.H. Gandjbakhche, ¡°Quantitative detection of multiple fluorophore sites as a tool for diagnosis and monitoring disease progression in salivary glands¡±, SPIE/Optical tomography and spectroscopy of tissue. 1997.
  15. I. Gannot, Development of clinical Non-invasive optical diagnostic method", The Israeli society for Laser medicine and Surgery, Be'er Sheba, February 1998.
  16. I. Gannot , "optical Waveguides for Medical Applications", University of Rennes, Rennes, France, October 1998, Invited.
  17. I. Gannot, Forschung Center Karlsruhe, optical WaveguIdes for medical applications, Germany, October 1998.
  18. I. Gannot, Forschung Center Karlsruhe, Optical Biopsy - A non invasive tool to diagnose a diseased tissue in-vivo Germany, October 1998.
  19. I. Gannot, , "Beam Profile analysis of Waveguide delivered IR Lasers", SPIE confrence on Specialty Fiber Optics for Medical Applications, January 1999.
  20. I. Gannot, ¡°Bending effect on IR hollow waveguides transmission¡±, EBIOS, Amsterdam, July 2000.
  21. I. Gannot, ¡°Introduction to Medical Informatics¡±, FDA stuff college, Rockville MD , USA, August 2001. Invited.
  22. I. Gannot and G. Gannot ¡° In vivo optical biopsy¡±, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, September 2001. Invited.
  23. I. Gannot; Transendoscopic fiber optic based surgical procedure within body cavities, Photonics West, 2003.
  24. I. Gannot, ¡°Optical Functional Imaging of Tissue Through Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement of Specific Markers as a Potential Tool for Early Cancer Detection¡±, The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Meeting, Anaheim, CA., April, 2003.
  25. I. Gannot, Thermal imaging through IR hollow waveguides bundles, , Optical fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, BIOS 2004, San-Jose, CA., January 2004.
  26. I. Gannot, Optical fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, Hot topics plenary session, BIOS 2004, San-Jose, CA., January 2004. Invited.
  27. I. Gannot, Thermal imaging through colimated bundles, IEEE/LEOS annual meeting, Puerto Rico, November 2004. Invited.
  28. I.Gannot, Introduction to Bio-Medical Informatics: An overview of a new emerging discipline. Invited talk, George Mason University, School of Information technology and Engineering, May 17, 2005. Invited.
  29. I. Gannot, Optical methods for diagnostics and treatments, University of Rochester, Medical Center, August 16, 2005. Invited.
  30. I. Gannot, , Mid-IR Fiber based transendoscopic image and treat system, Invited talk at OIDA Workshop on biophotonic sensors, August 17-18, 2005 Rochester NY. Invited.
  31. I. Gannot, ¡°Optical imaging based on nanoparticles and fluorescent probes¡±, NATO workshop on Photon-based Nanoscience and Technology: Materials, Diagnostics and Nanobiodevices, September 19 - 29, 2005, Auberge Estrimont, Orford, QC, Canada. Invited.
  32. I. Gannot, Optical methods for diagnostics and treatments, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New-Jersey, February 22nd, 2006. Invited.
  33. I. Gannot, ¡°Minimal invasive optical methods for diagnostics and treatments¡°, Ben Gurion University, May 16, 2006. Invited.
  34. I. Gannot, Biomedical Optics in the Mid IR, Boston University, Boston MA, October 3, 2006. Invited.
  35. I. Gannot, NATO workshop on waveguides, sensing and imaging for medical, environmental and defense applications, Mid IR biophotonics. October, 2006. Invited.
  36. I. Gannot, Sensing for the smart medical home, SPIE, BIOS meeting, San-Jose, CA, January 20, 2007. Invited.
  37. I. Gannot, Infrared imaging for tumor detection using antibodies conjugated gold magnetic nanoparticles, University of North Carolina in Charlotte, September 26, 2007. Invited.
  38. I. Gannot, ¡°Theoretical Investigation of Single Wavelength Hollow Waveguide Sensor for Chemical Materials Sensing¡±, Photonics West, Jan 20, 2008
  39. I. Gannot, Infrared imaging of tumor using antibodies conjugated gold magnetic nanoparticles. University of Health Sciences, Portland Oregon, Jan 30, 2008. Invited.
  40. I. Gannot, ¡°Minimal invasive optical methods for diagnosis and treatments, ¡° University of Washington Seattle, Washington, Feb 1st, 2008. Invited.

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