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Agarose-based Tissue Mimicking Optical Phantoms for Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy
Published on: August 22, 2018
Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance (TRF-DR) Spectroscopy for Heterogeneous Breast Tissue
Jigar Lad1, Erica Dao1, Gabriella Gohla2,3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Re-excision rates remain high for early-stage breast cancer patients due to challenges in margin delineation during surgery, such as poorly defined tumor boundaries. Our group has developed a time-resolved fluorescence and diffuse reflectance (TRF-DR) spectroscopy system to assess tumor boundaries where tissue composition is heterogeneous. This study assesses system feasibility for classifying tumor in heterogeneous regions using weighted logistic regression and principal component analysis (PCA). A total of 4818 measurements from 73 frozen patient ex vivo samples were evaluated. Tissue measurement areas (1 mm × 1 mm) were pathologist-assigned percentages of low (< 25%), medium (25%-< 75%), and high (≥ 75%) for tumor, fibroglandular, or adipose composition. The model trained with four principal components (PCs) achieved sensitivity of 77% and specificity of 68%, comparable to current clinical techniques while being fast, portable, and economical. The TRF-DR system with weighted logistic regression demonstrates potential as an intraoperative margin assessment tool.
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