Wavelength Modulated Raman Spectroscopy for Applications in Healthcare

几乎从它的发现开始，人们就对拉曼光谱成为无处不在的化学分析工具寄予厚望。它有可能从类似指纹的光谱中轻松而清晰地识别物质。这可以用简单的光子体系结构来实现，允许潜在的便携式和微型化的外形因素。不幸的是，所有分析物共有的压倒性荧光背景掩盖了微弱的拉曼信号，从而使这一梦想无法实现。最后，波长调制拉曼光谱(WMRS)代表了一种创新的解决方案，可以提供快速、无荧光的拉曼光谱。WMRS在医疗保健行业具有广泛的潜在应用，从区分癌症和健康组织，到确定生物液体中的药物浓度和识别炎症和感染的存在，以及高通量筛查的分析技术。这项市场研究旨在阐明这项技术在医疗保健领域的最佳发展路径。

Almost from its discovery there have been grand hopes for Raman spectroscopy to be aubiquitous tool for chemical analysis. It has the potential to identify substances easily anddistinctly from fingerprint-like spectra. This can be done with simple photonic architecture,allowing for potential portable and miniaturised form factors. Unfortunately theoverwhelming fluorescence background common to all analytes obscures the weak Ramansignal and thus makes this dream unrealised. Finally wavelength modulated Ramanspectroscopy (WMRS) represents an innovative solution that delivers fast, fluorescence-freeRaman spectra. WMRS has a wide range of potential applications in the healthcare industryfrom discriminating between cancerous and healthy tissue, to determining drug concentrationsin biological liquids and identifying the presence of inflammation and infection as well as aanalytical technique for high throughput screening. This market study will aim to clarify theoptimum development pathway for this technology in the healthcare sector.