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Optical imaging of oral pathological tissue using optical coherence tomography and synchrotron radiation computed microtomography

Canjau, S., Todea, C., Sinescu, C., Negrutiu, M.L., Duma, V., Manescu, A., Topala, F.I., Podoleanu, Adrian G.H. (2013) Optical imaging of oral pathological tissue using optical coherence tomography and synchrotron radiation computed microtomography. In: European Conference on Biomedical Optics. European Conference on Biomedical Optics. . Optical Society of America ISBN 978-0-8194-9646-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:49356)

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Abstract

The efforts aimed at early diagnosis of oral cancer should be prioritized towards developing a new screening instrument, based on optical coherence tomography (OCT), to be used directly intraorally, able to perform a fast, real time, 3D and non-invasive diagnosis of oral malignancies. The first step in this direction would be to optimize the OCT image interpretation of oral tissues. Therefore we propose plastination as a tissue preparation method that better preserves three-dimensional structure for study by new optical imaging techniques. The OCT and the synchrotron radiation computed microtomography (micro-CT) were employed for tissue sample analyze. For validating the OCT results we used the gold standard diagnostic procedure for any suspicious lesion - histopathology. This is a preliminary study of comparing features provided by OCT and Micro-CT. In the conditions of the present study, OCT proves to be a highly promising imaging modality. The use of x-ray based topographic imaging of small biological samples has been limited by the low intrinsic x-ray absorption of non-mineralized tissue and the lack of established contrast agents. Plastination can be used to enhance optical imagies of oral soft tissue samples. © 2013 OSA-SPIE.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Proceeding)
Uncontrolled keywords: Micro-CT; Minimally-invasive diagnosis; Optical coherence tomography; Oral squamous cell carcinoma; Plastination
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R857.O6 Optical instruments
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Giles Tarver
Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2015 09:50 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:26 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49356 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Podoleanu, Adrian G.H..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4899-9656
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