ArticleCancers2023
Raman Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Bladder Resectates towards Intraoperative Cancer Assessment.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Micro- and nanoplastics in the human genitourinary system: oncological impact - a systematic review.BJU international · 2026Pooled it
- Optical Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging for Bladder Cancer Detection and Characterisation: A Scoping Review of Diagnostic Evidence and Translational Readiness.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Microplastics as both a driver of genitourinary cancers and a deliverer of treatments.Communications medicine · 2026Review
- Label-free molecular profiling of cancer using Raman spectroscopy: from fundamentals to clinical applications.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Plastic induced urinary tract disease and dysfunction: a scoping review.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Detection of Unlabeled Polystyrene Micro- and Nanoplastics in Mammalian Tissue by Optical Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy.Analytical chemistry · 2025Article
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- Raman spectroscopy based diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microplastics in the Human Body: Exposure, Detection, and Risk of Carcinogenesis: A State-of-the-Art Review.Cancers · 2024Review
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Abstract
Raman spectroscopy offers label-free assessment of bladder tissue for in vivo and ex vivo intraoperative applications. In a retrospective study, control and cancer specimens were prepared from ten human bladder resectates. Raman microspectroscopic images were collected from whole tissue samples in a closed chamber at 785 nm laser excitation using a 20× objective lens and 250 µm step size. Without further preprocessing, Raman images were decomposed by the hyperspectral unmixing algorithm vertex component analysis into endmember spectra and their abundancies. Hierarchical cluster analysis distinguished endmember Raman spectra that were assigned to normal bladder, bladder cancer, necrosis, epithelium and lipid inclusions. Interestingly, Raman spectra of microplastic particles, pigments or carotenoids were detected in 13 out of 20 specimens inside tissue and near tissue margins and their identity was confirmed by spectral library surveys. Hypotheses about the origin of these foreign materials are discussed. In conclusion, our Raman workflow and data processing protocol with minimal user interference offers advantages for future clinical translation such as intraoperative tumor detection and label-free material identification in complex matrices.
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