• DocumentCode
    1594390
  • Title

    Oral Cancer Diagnosis with Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Author

    Chen, Shu-Fan ; Lu, Chih-Wei ; Tsai, Meng-Tsan ; Wang, Yih-Ming ; Yang, C.C. ; Chiang, Chun-Ping

  • Author_Institution
    Graduate Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., National Taiwan Univ., Taipei
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    7227
  • Lastpage
    7229
  • Abstract
    We use an optical coherence tomography system with a specially designed probe to image the structures of tissues within the oral cavity for the diagnosis of oral precancer and cancer. Various types of oral mucosa, such as gingiva and buccal mucosa, normal and abnormal, can be well distinguished
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; fibre optic sensors; optical tomography; fiber-based OCT system; optical coherence tomography; oral cancer diagnosis; oral cavity; scanning probe; tissue structure; Biomedical optical imaging; Biopsy; Cancer; High-resolution imaging; Lesions; Oncological surgery; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Probes; Tomography; optical coherence tomography; oral precancer and cancer; scanning probe;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8741-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616178
  • Filename
    1616178