Time-sliced and spectroscopic correlated two-dimensional near-infrared imaging for cancer detection

Summary form only given. The potential for safe and noninvasive imaging of tumors in the human body and diagnosing if those are benign or malignant are two major advantages of an optical imaging modality that have generated the recent research interest in optical biomedical imaging. Blurring of image by multiple scattered light, and identification of fingerprint wavelengths for diagnosis of lesions are two major challenges to be dealt with for realization of the imaging and diagnostic potential of optical approaches. In this paper, we present the initial results of a time-sliced transillumination imaging approach and a spectroscopic imaging method to image and distinguish between normal and cancerous regions of in vitro breast and tongue tissue samples.