Optical endomicroscopy and the road to real-time, in vivo pathology: present and future

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carignan, Charles S ^a   Yagi, Yukako ^b  

^a NinePoint Medical   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrett's esophagus; Cancer; Confocal microscopy; Dysplasia; Endoscopy; In vivo imaging; Neoplasia; Optical coherence tomography; Optical imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIOPSY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OPTICAL IMAGING; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84864825902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-7-98     Document Type: Review

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