Lung Cancer
Optical coherence tomography can detect early bronchial tumors
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, November 13th, 2005
OCT "can obtain high-resolution, cross sectional microscopic images of tissue, potentially enabling optical biopsy to substitute for conventional excisional biopsy," according to surgeons in Japan, who evaluated "the capability of OCT to image the microstructure of normal and abnormal bronchial tissue."
"The OCT system was produced by Light Lab Imaging (Boston, U.S.A.) and Pentax (Tokyo, Japan)," noted M. Tsuboi and coauthors at Tokyo Medical University. In a "preliminary examination," the OCT system "was used to image resected lung specimens from patients...
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