Optical Imaging in Human Lymph Node Specimens for Detecting Breast Cancer Metastases: A Review

M Papadoliopoulou, M Matiatou, S Koutsoumpos… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The evolution of optical imaging in identifying normal from malignant
tissues offers great advantages in terms of speed and accuracy of diagnosis. Our results …

Intra-operative assessment of sentinel lymph nodes for breast cancer surgery: an update

S Barkur, I Notingher, E Rakha - Surgical Oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
Lymph node (LN) involvement is the strongest prognostic factor in operable breast cancer
(BC). Therefore, accurate assessment of LN status is essential for management of BC …

Evaluation of breast tissue with confocal strip-mosaicking microscopy: a test approach emulating pathology-like examination

S Abeytunge, B Larson, G Peterson… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Confocal microscopy is an emerging technology for rapid imaging of freshly excised tissue
without the need for frozen-or fixed-section processing. Initial studies have described …

Coherent confocal light scattering spectroscopic microscopy evaluates cancer progression and aggressiveness in live cells and tissue

DK Pleskow, L Zhang, V Turzhitsky, MF Coughlan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The observation of biological structures in live cells beyond the diffraction limit with super-
resolution fluorescence microscopy is limited by the ability of fluorescence probes to …

Structured light scatteroscopy

V Krishnaswamy, JT Elliott… - … of biomedical optics, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A new imaging approach, structured light scatteroscopy (SLS), is demonstrated, which offers
rapid wide-field imaging of microscopic morphological variations in bulk tissue surfaces …

Small Angle Neutron Scattering in Drug Discovery Research: A Novel Tool for Advanced Study of Structures of Biological Macromolecules

L Adhikari, H Mishra, M Semalty… - Current Drug Discovery …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is a powerful and novel tool for the study of soft
condensed matter, including the microscopic and nanomaterials used for drug discovery …

Diagnosis of inflammatory lesions by high-wavenumber FT-Raman spectroscopy

LF das Chagas e Silva de Carvalho, ET Sato… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2011 - Springer
The Raman spectroscopy technique has been extensively used for biological sample
characterization. In particular, the fingerprint spectral region (800–1,800 cm− 1) has been …

Quantitative diagnosis of tissue microstructure with wide-field high spatial frequency domain imaging

W Lin, B Zeng, Z Cao, X Chen, K Yang… - Biomedical Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Non-contact and minimally invasive endoscopic optical imaging is an invaluable diagnostic
tool for tissue examination and cancer screening. The point sampling techniques with high …

Elastic scattering spectroscopy for early detection of breast cancer: partially supervised Bayesian image classification of scanned sentinel lymph nodes

Y Zhu, T Fearn, DW Chicken… - … of biomedical optics, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a standard diagnosis procedure to determine whether breast
cancer has spread to the lymph glands in the armpit (the axillary nodes). The metastatic …

Automated classification of breast pathology using local measures of broadband reflectance

AM Laughney, V Krishnaswamy… - Journal of …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We demonstrate that morphological features pertinent to a tissue's pathology may be
ascertained from localized measures of broadband reflectance, with a mesoscopic …