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Computed Tomography-guided Time-domain Diffuse Fluorescence Tomography in Small Animals for Localization of Cancer Biomarkers
Published on: July 17, 2012
Optical sensor for fast and accurate lung cancer detection with tissue autofluorescence and diffuse reflectance
Xianbei Yang1, Anzhi Chen2, Kaicheng U3
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Background:
Cancer is a severe threat to human health, and surgery is a major method of cancer treatment. This study aimed to develop an optical sensor for fast cancer tissue.
Methods:
The tissue autofluorescence spectrum and diffuse reflectance spectrum were obtained by using a laboratory-developed optical sensor system. A total of 151 lung tissue samples were used in this ex vivo study.
Results:
Experimental results demonstrate that tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy with a 365-nm excitation has better performance than diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, and 63 of 64 test samples (98.4% accuracy) were correctly classified with tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy and our developed data analysis method.
Conclusions:
Our promising ex vivo study results show that the developed optical sensor system has great promise for future clinical translation for intraoperative lung cancer detection and other applications.
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