ReviewAnnals of biomedical engineering2012
Near-infrared optical mammography for breast cancer detection with intrinsic contrast.
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- Fast Multi-Distance Time-Domain NIRS and DCS System for Clinical Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Design of a Low-Cost Diffuse Optical Mammography System for Biomedical Image Processing in Breast Cancer Diagnosis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Emerging Optoelectronic Devices Based on Microscale LEDs and Their Use as Implantable Biomedical Applications.Micromachines · 2022Review
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- A Compact Multi-Distance DCS and Time Domain NIRS Hybrid System for Hemodynamic and Metabolic Measurements.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Mechanical and hemodynamic responses of breast tissue under mammographic-like compression during functional dynamic optical imaging.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- Wireless, battery-free optoelectronic systems as subdermal implants for local tissue oximetry.Science advances · 2019Article
- Impact of errors in experimental parameters on reconstructed breast images using diffuse optical tomography.Biomedical optics express · 2018Article
- Optical Mammography in Patients with Breast Cancer Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Individual Clinical Response Index.Academic radiology · 2017Article
- Combined multi-distance frequency domain and diffuse correlation spectroscopy system with simultaneous data acquisition and real-time analysis.Biomedical optics express · 2017Article
- Non-invasive optical estimate of tissue composition to differentiate malignant from benign breast lesions: A pilot study.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The state of the art in breast imaging using the Twente Photoacoustic Mammoscope: results from 31 measurements on malignancies.European radiology · 2016Observational
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Abstract
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 quantifying the optical properties of breast tissue and translating them into measures of concentrations of relevant tissue components. In particular, near-infrared spectroscopy has been employed to determine the concentrations of hemoglobin, water, and lipids, as well as oxygen saturation of hemoglobin and optical scattering properties in normal and cancerous breast tissue. Dynamic optical measurements can also identify abnormal hemodynamic patterns associated with breast cancer. We review, in this article, a number of results in the field, which show that cancerous tissue is associated with higher hemoglobin and water concentrations, and a lower lipid concentration with respect to normal breast tissue. Indications that breast cancers are characterized by lower hemoglobin saturation and stronger scattering decay as a function of wavelength are less robust, with variable results reported in the literature. Intrinsic sources of optical contrast associated with breast cancer can also be used to monitor individual response to neoadjuvant therapy.
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