What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Optical Coherence
Tomography (OCT) was developed in the early 1990s for ophthalmological application and
is currently widely accepted in ophthalmology for retinal imaging purposes. In kidneys, the
first experiments were performed on transplant kidneys to investigate the ability of OCT to
assess ischaemic damage of kidneys. An ex vivo pilot study on the ability of OCT to
differentiate normal renal tissue from malignant renal tissue, showed positive results and …

The author discusses the study on the ability of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to
differentiate normal renal tissue to renal tumours. The author says that OCT gives images of
high resolution that may be similar to and reflect tissue pathology. She states that the study
that assesses the ability of OCT to differentiate renal tumour tissue from normal renal
parenchyma shows that OCT can differentiate normal from benign renal tissue.