The future of early cancer detection

RC Fitzgerald, AC Antoniou, L Fruk, N Rosenfeld - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
A proactive approach to detecting cancer at an early stage can make treatments more
effective, with fewer side effects and improved long-term survival. However, as detection …

FLIM as a promising tool for cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring

Y Ouyang, Y Liu, ZM Wang, Z Liu, M Wu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) has been rapidly developed over the past
30 years and widely applied in biomedical engineering. Recent progress in fluorophore …

Fluorescence guided surgery

HL Stewart, DJS Birch - Methods and Applications in …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Fluorescence guided surgery (FGS) is an imaging technique that allows the surgeon to
visualise different structures and types of tissue during a surgical procedure that may not be …

Luminescence lifetime imaging of three-dimensional biological objects

RI Dmitriev, X Intes, MM Barroso - Journal of Cell Science, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT A major focus of current biological studies is to fill the knowledge gaps between
cell, tissue and organism scales. To this end, a wide array of contemporary optical analytical …

Machine-learning assisted discrimination of precancerous and cancerous from healthy oral tissue based on multispectral autofluorescence lifetime imaging …

E Duran-Sierra, S Cheng, R Cuenca, B Ahmed, J Ji… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Complete resection of dysplastic and malignant tissue improves overall
survival and delays cancer recurrence in oral cancer patients; however, intraoperative …

Recent advances in point-of-care diagnostics for oral cancer

J Kaur, R Srivastava, V Borse - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Early-stage diagnosis is a crucial step in reducing the mortality rate in oral cancer cases.
Point-of-care (POC) devices for oral cancer diagnosis hold great future potential in …

Raman imaging and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy for diagnosis of cancer state and metabolic monitoring

L Becker, N Janssen, SL Layland, TE Muerdter… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In spite of significant improvements in diagnosis and treatment options,
cancer treatments still suffer from late detection and patient-specific multidrug resistance …

Handheld wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging system based on a distally mounted SPAD array

AB Matheson, AT Erdogan, C Hopkinson… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work a handheld Fluorescent Lifetime IMaging (FLIM) system based on a distally
mounted< 2 mm^ 2 128× 120 single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array operating over …

Quantitative multiphoton imaging of cell metabolism, stromal fibers, and keratinization enables label-free discrimination of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

F Xiang, J Yu, D Jiang, W Hu, R Zhang… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) features atypical clinical manifestations and
a low 5-year survival rate (< 5% in many developing countries where most of the disease …

Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMD): What is the clinical utility of dysplasia grade?

KPH Pritzker, MR Darling, JTK Hwang… - Expert Review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Oral epithelial dysplasia is considered a potential histologic precursor of
subsequent squamous cell cancer. As standard clinical practice, pathologists grade …