SPECTROSCOPIC COLPOSCOPY FOR TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION

该项目的最终目标是提供一个 创新的新系统，用于非侵入性表征 子宫颈上或周围的癌组织或癌前组织。 目标 是提供疾病的早期检测，从而更好地 为不必要地受到暴力侵害的妇女提供保健服务， 可以治愈的疾病 我们的方法包括设计和 开发了一种大大改进的数字成像阴道镜， 获取和处理宽光谱范围内的光谱信息 范围 我们计划获得正常和异常的数据 子宫颈组织，并建立一个分析数据库， 来观察正常组织的光谱特性， 以及异常组织的特征。 这种方法 成功的可能性很高，因为它涉及以下因素的综合 一些已经被证明是 在其他应用中的功能。 商业潜力是 被认为是优秀的，因为拟议的努力建立 在现有临床硬件和新出现的 研究技术。

The eventual objective of this project is to make available an innovative new system for use in the noninvasive characterization of cancerous or pre-cancerous tissue on or around the cervix. The goal is to provide earlier detection of disease and consequently better health care for women who are unnecessarily victimized by an otherwise curable disease. Our methodology involves the design and development of a much improved digital imaging colposcope which can acquire and process spectroscopic information over a broad spectral range. We plan to obtain such data for both normal and abnormal cervical tissue, and build an analytical database which will allow us to look at the range of spectroscopic properties of normal tissue as well as characteristic features of abnormal tissue. This approach has a high probability of success as it involves the synthesis of several elements which have already been demonstrated to be functional in other applications. The commercial potential is considered to be excellent since the proposed effort builds incrementally on existing clinical hardware and newly emerging research techniques.