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ArticleScientific reports2019

A Dual-modality Smartphone Microendoscope for Quantifying the Physiological and Morphological Properties of Epithelial Tissues.

Xiangqian Hong, Tongtong Lu, Liam Fruzyna, Bing Yu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiangqian HongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, USA.
Tongtong LuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, USA.
Liam FruzynaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-2881
Bing YuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, USA. bing.yu@marquette.edu.
Marquette University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a nonconcurrent dual-modality fiber-optic microendoscope (named SmartME) that integrates quantitative diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and high-resolution fluorescence imaging (FLI) into a smartphone platform. The FLI module has a spatial resolution of ~3.5 µm, which allows the determination of the nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio (N/C) of epithelial tissues. The DRS has a spectral resolution of ~2 nm and can measure the total hemoglobin concentration (THC) and scattering properties of epithelial tissues with mean errors of 4.7% and 6.9%, respectively, which are comparable to the errors achieved with a benchtop spectrometer. Our preliminary in vivo studies from a single healthy human subject demonstrate that the SmartME can noninvasively quantify the tissue parameters of normal human oral mucosa tissues, including labial mucosa tissue, gingival tissue, and tongue dorsum tissue. The THCs of the three oral mucosa tissues are significantly different from each other (p ≤ 0.003). The reduced scattering coefficients of the gingival and labial tissues are significantly different from those of the tongue dorsum tissue (p < 0.001) but are not significantly different from each other. The N/Cs for all three tissue types are similar. The SmartME has great potential to be used as a portable, cost-effective, and globally connected tool to quantify the THC and scattering properties of tissues in vivo.

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SmartphoneEndoscopyEpitheliumFeasibility StudiesFiber Optic TechnologyHumansMouth MucosaOptical ImagingPhantoms, Imaging

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