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Optical biopsy of epithelial cancers by optical coherence tomography (OCT).
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- Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Normal, Chronologically Aged, Photoaged and Photodamaged Skin: A Systematic Review.Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.] · 2015Pooled it
- Current concepts and future of noninvasive procedures for diagnosing oral squamous cell carcinoma--a systematic review.Head & face medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Potential use of optical coherence tomography in oral potentially malignant disorders: in-vivo case series study.BMC oral health · 2023Trial
- Optical coherence tomography enables optical biopsy of endometrial tissue for early cancer detection.Npj imaging · 2026Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography for early oral cancer detection: A systematic review.Imaging science in dentistry · 2026Review
- Advancements in Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography for Urothelial Carcinoma: Research Progress and Clinical ApplicationsCurrent medical imaging · 2026Review
- Characteristics of Clinically Classified Oral Lichen Planus in Optical Coherence Tomography: A Descriptive Case-Series Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Accuracy and precision of depth-resolved estimation of attenuation coefficients in optical coherence tomography.Journal of biomedical optics · 2023Article
- Multimodal fluorescence lifetime imaging and optical coherence tomography for longitudinal monitoring of tissue-engineered cartilage maturation in a preclinical implantation model.Journal of biomedical optics · 2023Article
- Flexible method for generating needle-shaped beams and its application in optical coherence tomography.Optica · 2022Article
- Colon phantoms with cancer lesions for endoscopic characterization with optical coherence tomography.Biomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Flexible endoscopic micro-optical coherence tomography for three-dimensional imaging of the arterial microstructure.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The Status of Advanced Imaging Techniques for Optical Biopsy of Colonic Polyps.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2020Review
- Bladder tissue characterization using probe-based Raman spectroscopy: Evaluation of tissue heterogeneity and influence on the model prediction.Journal of biophotonics · 2020Article
- Submillimeter diameter rotary-pullback fiber-optic endoscope for narrowband red-green-blue reflectance, optical coherence tomography, and autofluorescence in vivo imaging.Journal of biomedical optics · 2019Article
- Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Label-Free 3-D Optical Coherence Microscopy Images of Human Cervical Tissue.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2019Article
- Observations of in vivo laser tissue ablation in animal models with different chromophores on the skin and modulating duration per laser exposure.Lasers in medical science · 2019Article
- Skin cancer detection using non-invasive techniques.RSC advances · 2018Review
- Diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography in bladder cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2018Article
- Optical techniques for cervical neoplasia detection.Beilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical technique that measures the backscattering of near-infrared light by tissue. OCT yields in 2D and 3D images at micrometer-scale resolution, thus providing optical biopsies, approaching the resolution of histopathological imaging. The technique has shown to allow in vivo differentiation between benign and malignant epithelial tissue, through qualitative assessment of OCT images, as well as by quantitative evaluation, e.g., functional OCT. This study aims to summarize the principles of OCT and to discuss the current literature on the diagnostic value of OCT in the diagnosis of epithelial (pre)malignant lesions. The authors did a systematic search of the electronic databases PubMed and Embase on OCT in the diagnostic process of (pre)malignant epithelial lesions. OCT is able to differentiate between benign and (pre)malignant lesions of epithelial origin in a wide variety of tissues. In this way, OCT can detect skin cancers, oral, laryngeal, and esophageal cancer as well as genital and bladder cancer. OCT is an innovative technique which enables an optical biopsy of epithelial lesions. The incorporation of OCT in specific tools, like handheld and catheter-based probes, will further improve the implementation of this technology in daily clinical practice.
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