Spectroscopy microsystem for the detection of early cancer

Author

Ferreira, D.S. ; Monteiro, T.S. ; Minas, G.

Author_Institution

Algoritmi Centre, Univ. of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

23-25 Feb. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The research team is focused on the development of a chip-sized spectroscopy microsystem for the detection of gastrointestinal (GI) early cancerous lesions. The paper will briefly cover the outstanding properties of diffuse reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy detection and the concept of cointegration of highly selective thin-films optical interference filters on silicon photodiodes, in order to meet the growing clinical demands for highly sensitive and reliable tools for the detection of early cancer in the GI tract. It will be also described some of the developments on-going by the research team.

Keywords

bioMEMS; biological techniques; biomedical equipment; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; elemental semiconductors; fluorescence spectroscopy; light interference; optical filters; photodiodes; silicon; thin film devices; Si; chip-sized spectroscopy microsystem; diffuse reflectance; fluorescence spectroscopy detection; gastrointestinal early cancerous lesion detection; highly selective thin-films optical interference filters; silicon photodiodes; Cancer; Fluorescence; Gastrointestinal tract; Optical filters; Reflectivity; Silicon; Spectroscopy; Diffuse reflectance and fluorescence; Gastrointestinal early cancer; spectroscopy microsystem;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2012 IEEE 2nd Portuguese Meeting in

Conference_Location

Coimbra

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4524-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331371

Filename

6331371