Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in women in the western world.
Conventional breast cancer screening with x-ray mammography has been a clear benefit if …

To diagnose the various clinical aspects of breast cancer still constitutes a major medical
challenge, optical technology could substantially contribute to. However, clinical evaluation …

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among the population of the Western
world. Diagnostic methods include mammography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance; …

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among the global women population. It is
due to the development of malignant cells in the breast tissue based on external or internal …

After lung cancer, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women and the
leading cause of death for women between the ages of 40 and 55. Annually, approximately …

In recent years, extensive efforts have been made in developing near-infrared optical
techniques to be used in detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. Variations in optical …

Optical methods to detect breast cancer on the basis of its increased opacity have been
explored for some time. These methods have matured to a point in which they are capable of …

The use of near-infrared (NIR) measurements of photon migration has been recently
demonstrated for the detection of breast cancer in Europe. Yet the clinical success of this …

Considerable progress has been made since 1977 when Frans Jobsis first described the
use of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for tissue oxygenation monitoring. The early work …

The idea of using light to non-invasively detect breast cancer has been revisited in the past
few years as a result of theoretical and experimental advances in optical spectroscopy and …