Endoscopic imaging: Emerging optical techniques for the detection of colorectal neoplasia

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-69

  Anandasabapathy, Sharmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Confocal endoscopy; Endocytoscopy; Light scattering spectroscopy; Narrow band imaging; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NARROW BAND IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 36549006597     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e3282f2df8d     Document Type: Review

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