Cervical Cancer

OCT is highly sensitive in identifying pre-invasive and invasive cancer of the uterine cervix.  

Laser implications:

The Insight laser's fast measurement speed reduces movement blurring and supports high-definition 3D imaging.  Long coherence length allows more flexibility in imager distance.  Insight's clean optical signal provides more detail, higher contrast and less feature blur.

Additional general information:

  1. http://www.octnews.org/articles/934542/imalux-r-corporation-and-preventive-oncology-inter/
  2. http://www.octnews.org/articles/139289/optical-diagnosis-of-cervical-intraepithelialneopl/
  3. http://www.octnews.org/articles/2917714/feature-of-the-week-6-19-11-optical-coherence-tomo/
  4. http://www.octnews.org/articles/3377394/validation-of-an-ex-vivo-human-cervical-tissue-mod/

Additional technical information:

Optical diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasm (CIN) using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

 

 

OCT image of a cervical cancer.

 

Comparison of normal cervical epithelium (left),
CIN3 (middle) and carcinoma (right).