Imaging of human breast tissue using polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Verma, Y. ; Gautam, M. ; Divakar Rao, K. ; Swami, M. K. ; Gupta, P. K. (2011) Imaging of human breast tissue using polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography Laser Physics, 21 (12). pp. 2143-2148. ISSN 1054-660X

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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11210225

Abstract

We report a study on the use of polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PSOCT) for discriminating malignant (invasive ductal carcinoma), benign (fibroadenoma) and normal (adipocytes) breast tissue sites. The results show that while conventional OCT, that utilizes only the intensity of light back-scattered from tissue microstructures, is able to discriminate breast tissues as normal (adipocytes) and abnormal (malignant and benign) tissues, PS-OCT helps in discriminating between malignant and benign tissue sites also. The estimated values of birefringence obtained from the PSOCT imaging show that benign breast tissue samples have significantly higher birefringence as compared to the malignant tissue samples.

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