Mark C. Pierce

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Mark C. Pierce is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark C. Pierce has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 39 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 22 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Mark C. Pierce's work include Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (45 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (32 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers). Mark C. Pierce is often cited by papers focused on Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (45 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (32 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers). Mark C. Pierce collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Mark C. Pierce's co-authors include Johannes F. de Boer, Barry Cense, Guillermo J. Tearney, Brett E. Bouma, B. Hyle Park, Rebecca Richards‐Kortum, Teresa C. Chen, Nader A. Nassif, Seok Hyun Yun and John Strasswimmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Mark C. Pierce

112 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Improved signal-to-noise ratio in spectral-domain compared with time-domain optical coherence tomography

2003 931 citations Johannes F. de Boer, Barry Cense et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark C. Pierce United States	38	4.4k	1.9k	1.6k	1.5k	573	119	5.9k
Costas Pitris Cyprus	31	4.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	887 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	757 1.3×	137	5.7k
I. Alex Vitkin Canada	46	5.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	609 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	572 1.0×	253	6.9k
Benjamin J. Vakoc United States	34	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	598 0.4×	922 0.6×	850 1.5×	112	4.3k
Jennifer K. Barton United States	37	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	538 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	603 1.1×	225	5.3k
Mark E. Brezinski United States	43	6.2k 1.4×	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 3.1×	134	8.4k
David D. Sampson Australia	50	5.7k 1.3×	2.9k 1.5×	754 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	576 1.0×	250	8.5k
Andrew M. Rollins United States	44	3.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 3.0×	206	6.2k
Victor X. D. Yang Canada	38	3.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	621 0.4×	691 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	223	5.2k
Gereon Hüttmann Germany	34	2.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	738 0.5×	802 0.5×	201 0.4×	197	3.7k
Kenton W. Gregory United States	17	7.4k 1.7×	4.4k 2.3×	4.3k 2.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	71	11.3k

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Jacques, Steven L., et al.. (2025). Prediction of blood volume and oxygen saturation in superficial and deep skin layers using a color polarization camera. 33–33. 1 indexed citations

Subhash, Hrebesh M., et al.. (2024). Infrared thermal imaging for assessing human perspiration and evaluating antiperspirant product efficacy. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 24994–24994. 1 indexed citations

Jacques, Steven L., et al.. (2024). Hyperspectral imaging at visible to near-infrared wavelengths with deep learning to rapidly quantify tissue oxygenation, blood, and melanin content. 15. 29–29. 1 indexed citations

Pierce, Mark C., et al.. (2023). Fabrication and development of novel micromachined parylene-based electroactive membranes with embedded microfluidic architectures. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 33(9). 95010–95010. 4 indexed citations

Plutzky, Jorge, et al.. (2022). Shortwave infrared spatial frequency domain imaging for non-invasive measurement of tissue and blood optical properties. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 27(6). 14 indexed citations

Gonda, Amber, Xinyu Zhao, Shuqing He, et al.. (2021). Short-Wave Infrared Emitting Nanocomposites for Fluorescence-Guided Surgery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 27(5). 1–7.

Zhao, Yanyu, Hannah Peterson, John Jiang, et al.. (2020). Shortwave-infrared meso-patterned imaging enables label-free mapping of tissue water and lipid content. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5355–5355. 51 indexed citations

Ellwood, R.P., et al.. (2019). An Experimental Review of Optical Coherence Tomography Systems for Noninvasive Assessment of Hard Dental Tissues. Caries Research. 54(1). 43–54. 19 indexed citations

Zevon, Margot, Vidya Ganapathy, Paul Kim, et al.. (2015). CXCR‐4 Targeted, Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Emitting Nanoprobes for Enhanced Deep Tissue Imaging and Micrometastatic Cancer Lesion Detection. Small. 11(47). 6347–6357. 46 indexed citations

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Pierce, Mark C., Richard A. Schwarz, Michelle D. Williams, et al.. (2012). Accuracy of In Vivo Multimodal Optical Imaging for Detection of Oral Neoplasia. Cancer Prevention Research. 5(6). 801–809. 79 indexed citations

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Pierce, Mark C., Xun Zhang, Wen‐Hua Zhang, et al.. (2012). A Pilot Study of Low-Cost, High-Resolution Microendoscopy as a Tool for Identifying Women with Cervical Precancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 5(11). 1273–1279. 52 indexed citations

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Vila, Peter M., Mark C. Pierce, Lauren Levy, et al.. (2012). Discrimination of Benign and Neoplastic Mucosa with a High-Resolution Microendoscope (HRME) in Head and Neck Cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 19(11). 3534–3539. 45 indexed citations

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Pierce, Mark C. & Rebecca Richards‐Kortum. (2010). Low-cost, portable optical imaging systems for cancer diagnosis. PubMed. 2010. 1093–1096. 5 indexed citations

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Pierce, Mark C., David Javier, & Rebecca Richards‐Kortum. (2008). Optical contrast agents and imaging systems for detection and diagnosis of cancer. International Journal of Cancer. 123(9). 1979–1990. 146 indexed citations

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Muldoon, Timothy J., Mark C. Pierce, Dawn Nida, et al.. (2007). Subcellular-resolution molecular imaging within living tissue by fiber microendoscopy. Optics Express. 15(25). 16413–16413. 150 indexed citations

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Klein, Adam M., Mark C. Pierce, Steven M. Zeitels, et al.. (2006). Imaging the Human Vocal Folds in Vivo with Optical Coherence Tomography: A Preliminary Experience. Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology. 115(4). 277–284. 37 indexed citations

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Cense, Barry, Nader A. Nassif, Mark C. Pierce, et al.. (2006). Ultra-high speed and ultra-high resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and optical Doppler tomography in ophthalmology.. PubMed. 123–32. 22 indexed citations

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Boer, Johannes F. de, Barry Cense, Nader A. Nassif, et al.. (2005). Ultra-high speed and ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography and optical Doppler tomography. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 1139–1139.

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Cense, Barry, et al.. (2004). Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography Measurement of Thickness and Birefringence of Healthy Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Tissue. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 3350–3350. 1 indexed citations

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Pierce, Mark C., et al.. (1992). Developing the oncology nurse from novice to expert.. PubMed. 19(8). 1233–4. 2 indexed citations

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