Gastrointestinal cancer is a leading contributor to cancer-related morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Early diagnosis currently plays a key role in the prognosis of patients with …

Review of the existing studies on the contact pressure–induced changes in the optical
properties of biological tissues showed that the reported changes in transmittance …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) with a fiber-optic probe can noninvasively quantify
the optical properties of epithelial tissues and has shown the potential as a cost-effective …

Significance: Physiological parameters extracted from diffuse reflectance spectroscopy
(DRS) provide clinicians quantitative information about tissue that helps aid in diagnosis …

Fiber-optic probes are commonly used in biomedical optical spectroscopy platforms for light
delivery and collection. At the same time, it was reported that the inconsistent probe-sample …

Fiber reflectance spectroscopy is a non-invasive method for diagnosing skin diseases or
evaluating aesthetic efficacy, but it is dependent on the inverse model validity. In this work, a …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) is a probe-based spectral biopsy technique used in
cancer studies to quantify tissue reduced scattering (μ s′) and absorption (μa) coefficients …

Background Vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) is a lymphocyte-mediated disease of unknown
etiology that can cause intense itching as well stenosis, hindering the evacuation and …

Intraepithelial dysplasia of the oral mucosa typically originates in the proliferative cell layer
at the basement membrane and extends to the upper epithelial layers as the disease …

We have developed a portable, breast margin assessment probe leveraging diffuse optical
spectroscopy to quantify the morphological landscape of breast tumor margins during breast …