Martin Villiger

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Martin Villiger is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Villiger has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 48 papers in Biophysics and 27 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Martin Villiger's work include Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (92 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (42 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (42 papers). Martin Villiger is often cited by papers focused on Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (92 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (42 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (42 papers). Martin Villiger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Martin Villiger's co-authors include Brett E. Bouma, Theo Lasser, Rainer A. Leitgeb, A. H. Bachmann, Wang‐Yuhl Oh, David D. Sampson, Norman Lippok, Benjamin J. Vakoc, Kenichiro Otsuka and Seemantini K. Nadkarni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Martin Villiger

109 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A bio-inspired swellable microneedle adhesive for mechanical interlocking with tissue

2013 375 citations Martin Villiger, Brett E. Bouma et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Villiger United States	28	2.0k	725	581	459	364	118	2.7k
Woonggyu Jung South Korea	29	1.8k 0.9×	513 0.7×	479 0.8×	167 0.4×	280 0.8×	110	2.7k
Amy L. Oldenburg United States	34	2.5k 1.3×	796 1.1×	919 1.6×	190 0.4×	325 0.9×	107	3.3k
Nicusor Iftimia United States	32	2.2k 1.1×	569 0.8×	1.5k 2.6×	431 0.9×	741 2.0×	110	3.1k
Jennifer K. Barton United States	37	3.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 2.1×	603 1.3×	538 1.5×	225	5.3k
Grigory V. Gelikonov Russia	31	2.8k 1.4×	673 0.9×	1.2k 2.0×	452 1.0×	341 0.9×	210	3.3k
Vyacheslav I. Kochubey Russia	18	1.5k 0.8×	399 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	148 0.3×	98 0.3×	124	2.5k
Eric J. Chaney United States	30	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	672 1.2×	202 0.4×	176 0.5×	124	3.2k
Gereon Hüttmann Germany	34	2.2k 1.1×	802 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	201 0.4×	738 2.0×	197	3.7k
G. J. Tearney United States	18	2.4k 1.2×	872 1.2×	797 1.4×	323 0.7×	486 1.3×	25	2.8k
Felix I. Feldchtein Russia	25	1.8k 0.9×	442 0.6×	652 1.1×	432 0.9×	228 0.6×	88	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Martin Villiger

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Villiger

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Jones, G., Kenichiro Otsuka, Laurens J.C. van Zandvoort, et al.. (2025). Automated cap thickness and composition analysis with intravascular polarimetry. 1–1.

Liu, Chao J., Robert J. Jones, Chiara Maffei, et al.. (2025). Three-dimensional fiber orientation mapping of ex vivo human brain at micrometer resolution. PubMed. 3(1). 13–13. 1 indexed citations

Bouma, Brett E., et al.. (2024). Probabilistic volumetric speckle suppression in OCT using deep learning. Biomedical Optics Express. 15(8). 4453–4453. 3 indexed citations

Uribe‐Patarroyo, Néstor, et al.. (2024). Sample tilting for speckle suppression through angular compounding. Optics Letters. 49(17). 4979–4979.

Otsuka, Kenichiro, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing polarimetric information from existing intravascular optical frequency domain imaging data. 145. DM3A.3–DM3A.3. 1 indexed citations

Bouma, Brett E., et al.. (2023). Angular compounding for physically informed training of speckle suppression algorithms. 72–72.

Liu, Xinyu, Liqin Jiang, Mengyuan Ke, et al.. (2023). Posterior scleral birefringence measured by triple-input polarization-sensitive imaging as a biomarker of myopia progression. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 7(8). 986–1000. 23 indexed citations

Haft‐Javaherian, Mohammad, Martin Villiger, Chris B. Schaffer, et al.. (2020). A topological encoding convolutional neural network for segmentation of 3D multiphoton images of brain vasculature using persistent homology. PubMed. 2020. 4262–4271. 10 indexed citations

Li, Qingyun, David D. Sampson, & Martin Villiger. (2020). In vivo imaging of the depth-resolved optic axis of birefringence in human skin. Optics Letters. 45(17). 4919–4919. 12 indexed citations

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Hariri, Lida P., David C. Adams, Matthew B. Applegate, et al.. (2019). Distinguishing Tumor from Associated Fibrosis to Increase Diagnostic Biopsy Yield with Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(17). 5242–5249. 31 indexed citations

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Otsuka, Kenichiro, Martin Villiger, Αντώνιος Καρανάσος, et al.. (2019). INTRAVASCULAR POLARIMETRY CHARACTERIZES PLAQUE COMPOSITION AND INSTABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 73(9). 72–72. 2 indexed citations

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Doradla, Pallavi, Kenichiro Otsuka, Martin Villiger, et al.. (2019). Biomechanical Stress Profiling of Coronary Atherosclerosis. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging. 13(3). 804–816. 27 indexed citations

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Walther, Julia, Qingyun Li, Martin Villiger, et al.. (2019). Depth-resolved birefringence imaging of collagen fiber organization in the human oral mucosa in vivo. Biomedical Optics Express. 10(4). 1942–1942. 39 indexed citations

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Lippok, Norman, Martin Villiger, Alexandre Albanese, et al.. (2017). Depolarization signatures map gold nanorods within biological tissue. Nature Photonics. 11(9). 583–588. 24 indexed citations

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Lo, William Chun Yip, Néstor Uribe‐Patarroyo, Ahhyun S. Nam, et al.. (2016). Laser thermal therapy monitoring using complex differential variance in optical coherence tomography. Journal of Biophotonics. 10(1). 84–91. 18 indexed citations

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Curatolo, Andrea, Martin Villiger, Dirk Lorenser, et al.. (2015). Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence elastography. Optics Letters. 41(1). 21–21. 35 indexed citations

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Hariri, Lida P., Martin Villiger, Matthew B. Applegate, et al.. (2013). Seeing beyond the Bronchoscope to Increase the Diagnostic Yield of Bronchoscopic Biopsy. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 187(2). 125–129. 42 indexed citations

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Villiger, Martin & Theo Lasser. (2010). Image formation and tomogram reconstruction in optical coherence microscopy. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 27(10). 2216–2216. 17 indexed citations

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Seelamantula, Chandra Sekhar, Martin Villiger, Rainer A. Leitgeb, & Michaël Unser. (2008). Exact and efficient signal reconstruction in frequency-domain optical-coherence tomography. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(7). 1762–1762. 31 indexed citations

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Leitgeb, Rainer A., et al.. (2008). Phase manipulation without phase shifter for complex FDOCT signal reconstruction and resonant Doppler imaging. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6847(60). 1 indexed citations

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