Photoacoustic spectroscopic differences between normal and malignant thyroid tissues

Li Li; Wengming Xie; Hui Li

doi:10.1117/12.999903

11 December 2012 Photoacoustic spectroscopic differences between normal and malignant thyroid tissues

Li Li, Wengming Xie, Hui Li

Proceedings Volume 8553, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics V; 855339 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999903
Event: Photonics Asia, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

The thyroid is one of the main endocrine glands of human body, which plays a crucial role in the body's metabolism. Thyroid cancer mortality ranks only second to ovarian cancer in endocrine cancer. Routine diagnostic methods of thyroid diseases in present clinic exist misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis to varying degrees. Those lead to miss the best period of cancer treatment--early. Photoacoustic spectroscopy technology is a new tool, which provides an effective and noninvasive way for biomedical materials research, being highly sensitive and without sample pretreatment. In this paper, we use photoacoustic spectroscopy technology (PAST) to detect the absorption spectrum between normal and malignant thyroid tissues. The result shows that the photoacoustic spectroscopy technology (PAST) could differentiate malignant thyroid tissue from normal thyroid tissue very well. This technique combined with routine diagnostic methods has the potential to increase the diagnostic accuracy in clinical thyroid cancer diagnosis.

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Li Li, Wengming Xie, and Hui Li "Photoacoustic spectroscopic differences between normal and malignant thyroid tissues", Proc. SPIE 8553, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics V, 855339 (11 December 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999903

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