| Literature DB >> 26504630 |
Jing-Wei Su1, Yang-Hsien Lin1, Chun-Ping Chiang2, Jang-Ming Lee3, Chao-Mao Hsieh1, Min-Shu Hsieh4, Pei-Wen Yang3, Chen-Ping Wang5, Ping-Huei Tseng6, Yi-Chia Lee6, Kung-Bin Sung7.
Abstract
The progression of epithelial precancers into cancer is accompanied by changes of tissue and cellular structures in the epithelium. Correlations between the structural changes and scattering coefficients of esophageal epithelia were investigated using quantitative phase images and the scattering-phase theorem. An ex vivo study of 14 patients demonstrated that the average scattering coefficient of precancerous epithelia was 37.8% higher than that of normal epithelia from the same patient. The scattering coefficients were highly correlated with morphological features including the cell density and the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio. A high interpatient variability in scattering coefficients was observed and suggests identifying precancerous lesions based on the relative change in scattering coefficients.Entities:
Keywords: (170.0180) Microscopy; (170.4580) Optical diagnostics for medicine; (170.6935) Tissue characterization; (290.7050) Turbid media
Year: 2015 PMID: 26504630 PMCID: PMC4605039 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.6.003795
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732