Fiber-optic technologies for tissue diagnosis in cardiovascular and oncology applications

Author

Conde, Olga M. ; Real, Eusebio ; Pardo, Arturo ; Lopez-Higuera, Jose M.

Author_Institution

Dept. TEISA, Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Tissue characteristics as the spectral behavior of its reflectance or its scattering fingerprint provide features able to differentiate healthy from diseased conditions. The scattering of the aortic wall determines the degradation level of the vessel and reveals aneurysm prognosis. On the other hand, the reflectance of tumor tissue differs from its surrounding providing an inherent contrast to guide resection when hemoglobin spectral features become enhanced to highlight the angiogenesis mechanism. Both biomedical applications are based on fiber-optic systems.

Keywords

biochemistry; biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; cancer; cardiovascular system; image segmentation; medical image processing; molecular biophysics; optical tomography; proteins; tumours; aneurysm prognosis; angiogenesis mechanism; aortic wall; cardiovascular applications; disease; fiber-optic technology; hemoglobin spectral features; oncology applications; reflectance; scattering fingerprint; tissue diagnosis; tumor tissue; vessel degradation level; Biomedical imaging; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Reflectivity; Scattering; Tumors; backscattering; breast tumor; inherent tissue contrast; multispectral enhancement; spectral absorption;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203666

Filename

7203666