The detection of oral cancer using differential pathlength spectroscopy

H. J. C. M. Sterenborg; S. Kanick; S. de Visscher; M. Witjes; A. Amelink

doi:10.1117/12.847859

2 March 2010 The detection of oral cancer using differential pathlength spectroscopy

H. J. C. M. Sterenborg, S. Kanick, S. de Visscher, M. Witjes, A. Amelink

Proceedings Volume 7548, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics VI; 75481V (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847859
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The development of optical techniques for non-invasive diagnosis of cancer is an ongoing challenge to biomedical optics. For head and neck cancer we see two main fields of potential application 1) Screening for second primaries in patients with a history of oral cancer. This requires imaging techniques or an approach where a larger area can be scanned quickly. 2) Distinguishing potentially malignant visible primary lesions from benign ones. Here fiberoptic point measurements can be used as the location of the lesion is known. This presentation will focus on point measurement techniques. Various techniques for point measurements have been developed and investigated clinically for different applications. Differential Pathlength Spectroscopy is a recently developed fiberoptic point measurement technique that measures scattered light in a broad spectrum. Due to the specific fiberoptic geometry we measure only scattered photons that have travelled a predetermined pathlength. This allows us to analyse the spectrum mathematically and translate the measured curve into a set of parameters that are related to the microvasculature and to the intracellular morphology. DPS has been extensively evaluated on optical phantoms and tested clinically in various clinical applications. The first measurements in biopsy proven squamous cell carcinoma showed significant changes in both vascular and morphological parameters. Measurements on thick keratinized lesions however failed to generate any vascular signatures. This is related to the sampling depth of the standard optical fibers used. Recently we developed a fiberoptic probe with a ~1 mm sampling depth. Measurements on several leukoplakias showed that with this new probe we sample just below the keratin layer and can obtain vascular signatures. The results of a first set of clinical measurements will be presented and the significance for clinical diagnostics will be discussed.

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H. J. C. M. Sterenborg, S. Kanick, S. de Visscher, M. Witjes, and A. Amelink "The detection of oral cancer using differential pathlength spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 7548, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics VI, 75481V (2 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847859

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