Abstract
Detection of esophageal disease in current clinical practice is limited to visualization of macroscopic epithelial morphology. In this work, we investigate high resolution autofluorescence imaging under ultra violet excitation to visualize microscopic epithelial changes related to disease progression using a bench top prototype microscope. The approach is based on the hypothesis that UV excitation light can only penetrate the superficial layer of cells resulting in autofluorescence images of the epithelial layer without using an additional image sectioning approach. The experiments were performed using ex vivo human esophagus biopsy specimens. The results indicate that cellular morphology information related to disease progression is attainable without tissue preparation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 12502-12509 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 20 2009 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics