Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione
Laboratory of Optoelectronics
Optolab
via Vignolese 905, 41100 Modena
tel.: 059-2056196, Fax: 059-2056129
email:rovati.lugi@unimo.it
OptoLab - Staff
• Ing. Luigi Rovati: Head of the group
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Ing. Matteo Bonaiuti: PhD
Ing. Stefano Cattini: PhD
Ing. Fabio Bertarelli: PhD student
Dr. Nithiyanantham Palanisamy: PhD student
OptoLab - Skills
Design and realization of innovative optoelectronic
instrumentation and related metrological problems
Ophthalmic
Instrumentation
NIRS
Instrumentation
Sensors
DWS of the ocular Fundus
Choroid
Retina
1,2
Choroid
Retina
1
0,8
P=0
0,6
0,4
0,2
P=0
0
1
10
2
10
3
10
4
10
Ocular fundus reflectometry
Maximal reflectance variation (%)
0
-1
-2
Site T1
Site T2
-3
-4
-5
-6
6
10
14
Frequency (Hz)
18
22
Blood flow measurement in
extracorporal circulation
Fiber optic sensor for ex-vivo
blood analysis
Recent publications
•S. Cattini, and L. Rovati, “UV-LEDs for Monitoring Dialysis Adequacy, ”Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on : Accepted for
future publication, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TIM.2008.2009410
•L. Rovati and R. Ansari, “Noninvasive Measurements of Glucose in the Human Body Using Polarimetry and Brewster Reflection off of the Eye Lens” in
“Handbook of Optical Sensing of Glucose in Biological Fluids and Tissues,” Valery V. Tuchin Ed., CRC Press, Larry Barksdale (Lincoln, United States),
ISBN: 9781584889748, 2008
•S. Cattini and L. Rovati, “A simple readout electronics for automatic power controlled self-mixing laser diode systems,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 084704,
2008
•L. Rovati, S. Cattini, F. Viola, and G. Staurenghi, “Measuring Dynamics of Scattering Centers in the Ocular Fundus,” International Journal On Smart
Sensing and Intelligent Systems, VOL. 1, NO. 3, pp. 799-811, 2008
•L. Rovati, S. Cattini, N. Zambelli, F. Viola, and G. Staurenghi, “In-vivo diffusing-wave-spectroscopy measurements of the ocular fundus,” Optics
Express, Vol. 15, Issue 7, pp. 4030-4038, 2007
•L. Rovati, G. Salvatori, L. Bulf, and S. Fonda, “Optical and electrical recording of neural activity evoked by graded contrast visual stimulus,”
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2007, 6:28, doi:10.1186/1475-925X-6-28, 2007
•L. Peretto, L. Rovati, G. Salvatori, R. Tinarelli, and A. E. Emanuel, “A measurement system for the analysis of the response of the human eye to the
light flicker,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 56, No.4, pp. 1384-1390, 2007
•F. Crespi, M. Donini, A. Bandera, F. Congestri, F. Formenti, V Sonntag, C. Heidbreder, and L. Rovati, “Near-infrared oxymeter biosensor prototype
for non-invasive in vivo analysis of rat brain oxygenation: effects of drugs of abuse,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 8, pp. 528-534, 2006
•G. Salvatori, I.K. Suh, R.R. Ansari, and L. Rovati, “Instrumentation and Calibration Protocol for a Continuous Wave Near Infrared Hemoximeter,”
IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement, vol. 55, n. 4, pp. 1368-1376, 2006
•M. Ruggeri, G. Salvatori, and L. Rovati, "Synchronous phase to voltage converter for true-phase polarimeters,” Measurement Science and
Technology Vol. 16, pp. 569-577, 2005
•L. Rovati, M. Bonaiuti, and P. Pavan, "Design of a high-performance optical system for angular position measurement: optical and electronic
strategies for uncertainty reduction," Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions Vol. 54, Issue 5, pp. 2075-2081, 2005
•F. Crespi, A. Bandera, M. Donini, C. Heidbreder, and L. Rovati, "Non-invasive in vivo infrared laser spectroscopy to analyse endogenous oxyhaemoglobin, deoxy-haemoglobin, and blood volume in the rat CNS," Journal of Neuroscience Methods 145, pp. 11-22, 2005
•L. Rovati, and F. Docchio, “Autofluorescence methods in ophthalmology,” Journal of Biomedical Optics 09(01), pp. 9-21, 2004
•R.R. Ansari, S. Boeckle, and L. Rovati, "New optical scheme for a polarimetric-based glucose sensor,” Journal of Biomedical Optics 09(01), pp. 103115, 2004
•L. Rovati, A. Bandera, M. Donini, G. Salvatori, and L. Pollonini, “Design and performance of a wide bandwidth and sensitive instrument for nearinfrared spectroscopic measurements on human tissue,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. Vol. 75, Issue 12, pp. 5315-5325, 2004
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