Title :
Fiber optic probe for polarized reflectance spectroscopy: oral mucosa studies
Author :
Nieman, Linda T. ; Myakov, Alexey ; Sokolov, Konstantin
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Eng. Program, Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
We describe a new clinical instrument based on polarized reflectance spectroscopy for the early detection of cancerous and precancerous lesions of the oral mucosa.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical equipment; cancer; light polarisation; patient diagnosis; probes; visible spectroscopy; cancerous lesions; clinical instrument; fiber optic probe; medical instrumentation; oral cancer; oral mucosa; oral mucosa studies; polarized reflectance spectroscopy; precancerous lesions; Cancer; Instruments; Light scattering; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical scattering; Probes; Reflectivity; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053275
