Detecting Glioma Tumor Features in Human Ex Vivo Samples Using Swept -Source OCT

Authors :: Jessica Mavadia
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Shaan M. Raza
Carmen Kut
Elliot M. McVeigh
Xingde Li
Jiefeng Xi
Hugo Guerrero-Cazares
Source :: Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: OSA, 2012.
Abstract: Ex vivo human brain tissues from 8 glioma patients and 5 controls are imaged using SS-OCT, with higher glioma attenuation values and easily detectable and specific tumor features (microcyst, necrosis and pallisading) for intraoperative resections.

Subjects :: Physics
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
Attenuation
Speckle noise
Human brain
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Optical coherence tomography
Attenuation coefficient
Glioma
medicine
Medical physics
Ex vivo

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