Title :
Effective indicators for oral cancer diagnosis based on optical coherence tomography
Author :
Tsai, Meng-Tsan ; Lee, Cheng-Kuang ; Lee, Hsiang-Chieh ; Wang, Yih-Ming ; Yang, C.C. ; Chiang, Chun-Pin
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Optoelectron., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
A swept-source optical coherence tomography system is used to clinically scan oral precancer and cancer patients for statistically analyzing the effective indicators of diagnosis including the signal standard deviation, spatial-frequency spectral shape, and epithelium thickness.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; optical tomography; epithelium thickness; optical coherence tomography; oral cancer; signal standard deviation; spatial-frequency spectral shape; Biomedical optical imaging; Cancer; Fluctuations; Image analysis; Lesions; Optical imaging; Optical sensors; Photonics; Signal analysis; Tomography; 170.3880 Medical and biological imaging; 170.4500 Optical coherence tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
