LIST OF PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

OF PROFESSOR VO VAN TOI

 

PATENTS

• APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF A HUMAN RETINA USING ENTOPTICALLY OBSERVED LEUKOCYTES AND OTHER PSYCHOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA (Vo Van Toi and J. Sun), US Patent No. 5,640,220, June 17, 1997.

·        EYE MEDICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM (Vo Van Toi), US Patent No. 5,171,306, December 15, 1992.

·        STIMULATEUR VISUEL (Visual Stimulator) (Vo Van Toi), Swiss Patent No. 596-821, October 31, 1977.

PUBLICATIONS

2005

• STUDYING BRAIN FUNCTION WITH NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY CONCURRENTLY WITH ELECTROENCEPHALOGAPHY (Y. Tong, E. J. Rooney, P. R. Bergethon, J. M. Martin, A. Sassaroli, B. L. Ehrenberg, Vo Van Toi, P. Aggarwal, N. Ambady, and S. Fantini), in Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, vol. 6, No. 8 ISSN 1605-7422, p. 444-449
• HEMODYNAMIC VARIATIONS MEASURED WITH NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY IN HUMAN FOREARM MUSCLES IN RESPONSE TO VENOUS OCCLUSION: AN ELECTRICAL MODEL (Vo Van Toi, Matthew L. Hoimes, Shalini Nadgir, and Sergio Fantini), in Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, vol. 6, No. 8 ISSN 1605-7422, p. 495-502

2004

·       DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED PHANTOM TO SIMULATE TUMOR MOTIONS APPLIED TO IMAGE GUIDED ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY (G Sharp, M Fernald, D Lo, Vo Van Toi, H Tseng, T Neicu, S Weinberg, and SB Jiang)
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting, August 2004

2002

• CORRELATION BETWEEN PUPIL DIAMETER AND VISULLY INDUCED DISCOMFORT (Vo Van Toi and D.S. Landmann), in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 43

1998

• PORTABLE DEVICE FOR PROGRAMMABLE, AUTOMATIC, OR ON-DEMAND DELIVERY OF ARTIFICIAL TEARS (Vo Van Toi and P.A. Grounauer), in Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film, and Dry Eye Syndromes 2: Basic Science and Clinical Relevance, edited by David A. Sullivan, Darlene A. Dartt, and Michele A. Meneray, Series Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 438, 1998 Plenum Press, 1027-1032.

1997

• RELIEVING DRY EYE SYMPTOMS FOR COMPUTER USERS (Vo Van Toi and B. Dumery), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 38, No. 4, p. 653.

·        RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLINK RATE, OCULAR DISCOMFORT, AND VISUAL TASKS (B. Dumery and Vo Van Toi), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 38, No. 4, p. 326.

·        PORTABLE BLINK RATE RECORDER (A. Siegel, B. Dumery and Vo Van Toi), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 38, No. 4, p. 338.

1996

• AUTOMATICALLY MEDICATED INSTRUMENT FOR EYEDROPS (Vo Van Toi, P.A. Grounauer and C. Weder), Proceeding of Viet-Tech International Conference, p. I02- I07.

·        PORTABLE DEVICE FOR DELIVERY OF ARTIFICIAL TEARS (Vo Van Toi, P.A. Grounauer, C. Weder and B. Dumery), Proceeding of the Second International Conference on the Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film and Dry Eye Syndromes: Basic Science and Clinical Relevant, p. 185.

·        BLUE FIELD ENTOPTIC STUDY: DIURNAL AND LONG TERM FLUCTUATION OF LEUKOCYTE CHARACTERISTICS (J. Bottari, B. Laidlaw, K. Pandey and Vo Van Toi), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 37, No. 3, p. 3300.

·        POST-LSD HALLUCINOSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASE IN FLICKER-FUSION SENSITIVITIES (Vo Van Toi, H. Abraham and N. Bursac), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 37, No. 3, p. 3307.

·        THE COMPLEX MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION OF DUFFING'S EQUATION (D. Preis and Vo Van Toi), Proceeding of Audio-Engineering Society, p.4756.

1995

• DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL BLUE FIELD ENTOPSCOPE TO DETERMINE THE LEUKOCYTE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE SIZE OF FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONE (Vo Van Toi and Jianguo Sun), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 36, No. 4, p. 4338.

·        MEASUREMENTS OF LEUKOCYTE CHARACTERISTICS EVOKED BY BLUE FIELD ENTOPTIC PHENOMENON: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUPERIMPOSING AND ALTERNATING PARADIGMS (Jianguo Sun and Vo Van Toi), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 36, No. 4, p. 520.

·        VARIATIONS OF BLOOD FLOW AT OPTIC NERVE HEAD INDUCED BY SINUSOIDAL FLICKER STIMULATION IN CATS (Vo Van Toi and C. Riva), The Journal of Physiology (London), Vol 482.1, Jan, p. 189-202.

1994

• METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING THE DE LANGE CURVES IN GLAUCOMA STUDIES (Vo Van Toi, P.A. Grounauer and S. Terraz), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), p 4296.

1993

• EFFECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTRA-OCULAR PRESSURE ON FLICKER SENSITIVITY (Vo Van Toi and P.A. Grounauer), Swiss Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting Proceeding, p. 58.

·        CLINICAL RESULTS OF AN AUTOMATIC DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (Vo Van Toi, P.A. Grounauer and K. Zaman), Swiss Ophthalmology Society Proceeding Annual Meeting, p. 60.

·        CLINICAL COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF THREE VISUAL STIMULATORS: PAPILLOMETRE, FLICKER SYSTEM AND OCTOPUS IN THE STUDIES OF OCULAR HYPERTENSION AND UNILATERAL GLAUCOMA (S. Terraz, P.A. Grounauer and Vo Van Toi), Swiss Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting Proceeding, p. 98.

·        NEW PARADIGMS FOR BLUE FIELD ENTOPTIC SIMULATION (J. Sun, B. Petrig, Vo Van Toi, L. Kamoun and C. Riva), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), p 3393.

·        OPTIC NERVE BLOOD FLOW CHANGES EVOKED BY SINUSOIDAL WAVEFORM STIMULATION (Vo Van Toi, C. Riva and S. Cranstoun), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), p 3423.

·        EYE-TRACKING LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETER STABILIZED IN TWO DIMENSIONS: PRINCIPLE, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION (M. Mendel, Vo Van Toi, C. Riva and B. Petrig), Journal of The Optical Society of America A, Vol. 10, No. 7, p 1663-1669.

1992

• FACTORS INFLUENCING THE BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF INSERTABLE SILICON MICROSHAFTS IN CEREBRAL CORTEX (D. Edell, Vo Van Toi, V. McNeil and L. Clark), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 39, p 635-643.

·        VISUAL STIMULATOR MONITORED BY MICROCONTROLLER (Vo Van Toi and C.W. Burckhardt), Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington D.C., 1992), vol. 1, p 198-201.

·        ISOLATION OF COLOR VISION MECHANISMS USING A SILENT SUBSTITUTION METHOD (Vo Van Toi, C.W. Burckhardt and P.A. Grounauer), Advances in Color Vision Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington D.C., 1992), vol 4, p 44-46.

·        AUTOMATIC DELIVERY OF EYE MEDICATION BY DROPLET EJECTION (Vo Van Toi and P.A. Grounauer), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 33, p 1012.

·        LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETER STABILIZED IN TWO DIMENSIONS (M. Mendle, Vo Van Toi, C. Riva and B. Petrig), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp), vol 33, p 807.

1991

• IRREGULARITIES IN THE FLICKER SENSITIVITY CURVE (Vo Van Toi, C.W. Burckhardt and P.A. Grounauer), Applied Optics, 30, No. 6, p. 2113-2120.

1990

• VEPS GENERATED BY HIGH RATES PATTERN REVERSAL STIMULATION (Vo Van Toi and Sun Jiangguo), Technical Digest of the Conference on the Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System, vol. 3, p. 195-198.

·        EYE MEDICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM (Vo Van Toi and Zhang Xiao Dong), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (supp.) 31, No. 4, p. 404.

·        ARTIFICIALLY INCREASING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE CAUSES FLICKER SENSITIVITY LOSSES (Vo Van Toi, P.A. Grounauer and C.W. Burckhardt), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 31, p. 1567-1574.

·        TUFTS SUN ON THE HILL SOLAR CAR NEWSLETTERS (1989-1990), (Vo Van Toi), Editor.

1989

• DERIVATION OF A UNIFIED TRANSFER FUNCTION IN THE THEORY OF FLICKER (Vo Van Toi), Optics Letters, Sept. 1989, vol 14, No 17, p. 907-909.

1988

• AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF THE ERG SIGNAL BY COMPUTER (Grounauer P.A, Benad M., Vo Van Toi and Gartmann D.), Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, Vol 192, p. 403-405.

1987

• LOSS OF FLICKER PERCEPTION DUE TO ARTIFICIAL OCULAR HYPERTENSION (Vo Van Toi), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Supp) Vol. 28, No. 3, p. 218.

·        FLICKER-FUSION PERCEPTION INVESTIGATIONS: Design, Modeling and Applications (Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and P. A. Grounauer), International Journal of Precision Machinery, Medical Engineering and Mecha-Optoelectronics, Vol. 1, p. 355-376.

1986

• ETUDE DE LA RELATION ENTRE LA COURBE DE SENSIBILITE DE L'OEIL HUMAIN AU PAPILLOTEMENT ET LA PRESSION INTRAOCULAIRE (Investigation of the Relationship Between Flicker Sensitivity Curve and Intraocular Pressure) (Vo Van Toi). Technical Report, EPFL (Switzerland), August, 1986.

·        INSERTABLE NEURAL INFORMATION TRANSDUCER TECHNOLOGY (D. Edell, Vo Van Toi, V. McNeil and L. Clark), Proceedings of 39th ACEMB, September, 1986.

1985

• VISUAL PERCEPTION AND CORRECTION OF CHARACTER FORMATION NON-UNIFORMITIES IN DOT-MATRIX PRINTERS (Vo Van Toi), Society for Information Display International Syposium Digest, Vol. XVI., p 306-307.

·        NEVRITE OPTIQUE RETROBULBAIRE: ASPECTS PSYCHOPHYSIQUES ET ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIQUES (Retrobulbar Neuritis: Psychophysical and Electrophysiological Investigations), (P.A. Grounauer and Vo Van Toi), Annals of the Societe Internationale de Langue Française pour l'Exploration Visuelle, p. 126-138.

1983

• SENSITIVITY TO THE FLICKERING LIGHT IN DIGITALIZED PATIENTS (C. Guignard, Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and J. L. Schelling), British Journal in Clinical Pharmacology, 15, p. 189-196.

1982

• SENSIBILITE DE LA VISION DE L'OEIL HUMAIN AU PAPILLOTEMENT ET CERTAINS MECANISMES DE LA VISION (Flicker Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Visual Mechanisms) (Vo Van Toi), Ph.D. thesis No. 449, EPFL, 263 pages.

·        EFFECT OF DIGOXIN ON THE SENSITIVITY TO FLICKERING LIGHT (C. Guignard, Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and J. L. Schelling). Abstracts of the 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, published by INSERM, France, p. 15.

1980

• STIMULATEUR A ECLAIR ELECTROMECANIQUES POUR ERG ET PEV (Electromechanical Flash Visual Stimulator For Electroretinogram and Visual Evoked Potential) (Vo Van Toi and P. A. Grounauer), Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde., 176 Heft 4, p. 530-532 .

·        OPHTALMODYNAMOGRAPHIE PNEUMATIQUE AU BIOMICROSCOPE (Ophthalmodynamography Pneumatic used with Biomicroscope) (Vo Van Toi and P. A. Grounauer and E. B. Streiff), Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, 175, Heft, p. 619-624.

·        REVERSIBLE REDUCTION OF THE PHOTOPIC FLICKER ELECTRORETINOGRAM AFTER CATARACT OPERATION (Ch. Huber and Vo Van Toi), Ophthalmic Research 12, p. 65-72l.

·        ELECTRORETINOGRAMME; INDICATIONS ET INTERPRETATIONS (Electroretinogram: Indications and Interpretations), (P. A. Grounauer and Vo Van Toi), Rev. Med. Suisse Romande, 100, p. 525-531.

·        LE PAPILLOTEMENT AU SERVICE DE LA MEDECINE ET DE LA RECHERCHE PHYSIOLOGIQUE (Flicker Sensitivity in Medicine and Physiology Research), (Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and P. A. Grounauer), Proceedings of the Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Swiss So ciety of Biomedical Engineering, p. 83-88.

·        FLICKER FUSION EXPERIMENTS AND COLOR VISION SIGNAL PROCESSING (C. W. Burckhardt and Vo Van Toi), Proceedings of the First European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), p. 71-72.

·        FLICKER FUSION EXPERIMENTS AND HUMAN COLOR VISION MECHANISMS (C. W. Burckhardt and Vo Van Toi), Abstracts of the Third European Conference on Visual Perception, p.32.

1979

• ERG BY LOCALIZED SINUSOIDAL STIMULATION (P. A. Grounauer, Vo Van Toi and Ch. Huber), Documenta Ophthalmologica, Vol. 23, p. 187-192.

1978

• LE SYNDROME CONTUSIF INTRARETINIEN EXISTE-T-IL? (Does the Intraretinal Contusif Syndrome Exist?) (P. A. Grounauer, Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and G. Parapini), Ophthalmologica 177, p. 260-263.

·        LE STIMULATEUR VISUEL (The Visual Stimulator) (Vo Van Toi, C. W. Burckhardt and P. A. Grounauer), Medecine et Hygiene No. 1298, p. 2769-2773.

·        OPHTALMOLOGIE (P. A. Grounauer, Vo Van Toi and Cl. Gailloud), Medecine et Hygiene, No. 37, p. 8-10.

·        VISUAL STIMULATOR (Vo Van Toi and P. A. Grounauer), The Review of Scientific Instruments, 49 (10), p. 1403-1406.

1977

• VOM PERZEPTIVEN FLICKER ZUM MACULAREN ERG DURCH SINUSOIDALE STIMULATION (From Flicker Perception to Macular ERG by Sinusoidal Stimulation), (P. A. Grounauer, Vo Van Toi and E. B. Streiff), Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, 170, Heft 6, p. 8 21-823.

·        MESURE DE LA PRESSION SANGUINE DANS L'ARTERE OPHTHALMIQUE: UN NOUVEL INSTRUMENT (Measurement of the Blood Pressure Within the Retina's Artery: A New Instrument) (Vo Van Toi and P. A. Grounauer), Medecine et Hygiene, Vol. XXXV, No. 123, p. 1142-1145.

1976

• FREQUENCE CRITIQUE DE FUSION DANS LE CHAMPS VISUEL CENTRAL ET PERIPHERIQUE (Critical Flicker Frequency in the Central and Peripheral Visual Field), (Vo Van Toi and P. A. Grounauer), Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, 168, Heft 1, p. 90-93.

·        ANGIOSCOPY AND COLOR ANGIOGRAPHY, (P. A. Grounauer, R. Faggioni and Vo Van Toi), Documenta Ophthalmologica, p. 55-58.

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