| Literature DB >> 32206415 |
Michael Fanous1,2, Adib Keikhosravi3, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla4, Kevin W Eliceiri3,5, Gabriel Popescu1,2.
Abstract
New quantitative prognostic markers are needed for improved pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) prognosis. Second harmonic generation microscopy has been used to show that collagen fiber alignment in PDAC is a negative prognostic factor. In this work, a series of PDAC and normal adjacent tissue (NAT) biopsies were imaged with spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM). Quantitative analysis performed on the biopsy SLIM images show that PDAC fiber structures have lower alignment per unit length, narrower width, and are longer than NAT controls. Importantly, fibrillar collagen in PDAC shows an inverse relationship between survival data and fiber width and length (p < 0.05).Entities:
Year: 2020 PMID: 32206415 PMCID: PMC7075600 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.383242
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732