Near infrared light interaction with lung cancer cells

Author

Giakos, G.C. ; Marotta, S. ; Narayan, C. ; Petermann, J. ; Sestra, S. ; Pingili, D. ; Tsokaktsidis, S.A. ; Sheffer, D.B. ; Xu, W. ; Zervakis, M. ; Livanos, G. ; Kounelakis, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput., Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The objective of this study is to explore the phenomenology of near infrared (NIR) light interaction with healthy and early-lung cancer by combining efficient polarimetric backscattering detection techniques with Polarimetric Exploratory Data Analysis (pEDA). Preliminary results indicate that enhanced discrimination signatures can be obtained for certain types of lung cancers.

Keywords

backscatter; bio-optics; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; cellular biophysics; light scattering; lung; polarimetry; NIR light interaction; discrimination signatures; early lung cancer cells; healthy lung cells; near infrared light interaction; pEDA; polarimetric backscattering detection techniques; polarimetric exploratory data analysis; Calibration; Cancer; Glass; Lungs; Matrix decomposition; Optical polarization; Pathology; Polarimetric Exploratory Data Analysis (pEDA); early detection and enhanced discrimination; lung cancer; physical phenomenology of polarized light with cancer tissue pathologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Binjiang

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7933-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944333

Filename

5944333