Flourescence lifetime imaging of unstained tissues: Early results in human breast cancer

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-317

  Tadrous, Paul J ^a   Siegel, Jan ^b   French, Paul M W ^b   Shousha, Sami ^c   Lalani, El Nasir ^a   Stamp, Gordon W H ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ICSM   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoflourescence; Breast; Carcinoma; FLIM; Stroma; Time domain

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CALCIFICATION; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPITHELIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROMA; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLLAGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0037364767     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1286     Document Type: Review

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