Advances in bio-optical imaging for the diagnosis of early oral cancer

Pharmaceutics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-378

  Olivo, Malini ^a,b   Bhuvaneswari, Ramaswamy ^c   Keogh, Ivan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Confocal endomicroscopy; Confocal reflectance microscopy; Fluorescence diagnosis; Optical coherence tomography; Optical imaging; Oral cancer; Surface enhanced raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BEVACIZUMAB; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; HYPERICIN; NANOSHELL; PROTOPORPHYRIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CAMERA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; COLON CARCINOMA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG TARGETING; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH MUCOSA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRECANCER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 80053025127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics3030354     Document Type: Review

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