Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 10, 1017002(2022)

Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tissue Imaging

Muyun Hu1, Di Yang1, Zihan Yang1, Jianwei Shang2, Jun Zhang3, and Yanmei Liang1、*
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2Department of Oral Medicine, Tianjin Stomatological Hospital, Department of Oral Medicine, Hospital of Stomatology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300041, China
  • 3Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Tianjin Stomatological Hospital, Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital of Stomatology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300041, China
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    Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has a high incidence and limited prognosis, and it is of great significance to improve the prognosis by early diagnosis and accurate identification of the lesion boundaries during surgery. Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) can not only obtain tissue microstructure information, but also obtain tissue polarization information, which can improve the specificity of tissue diagnosis. In order to verify the feasibility of PS-OCT technology in the diagnosis of OSCC, a self-developed high-resolution PS-OCT system is used to image OSCC tissue ex vivo. The preliminary imaging results show that OSCC has an obvious birefringence effect compared with the normal tissue, and the accumulative phase retardation can be used to distinguish normal tissues and cancerous tissues. Finally, it is proved that high-resolution PS-OCT technology has great potential for identification, diagnosis, and boundary detection of OSCC tissue. In addition, it can assist surgeons in disease screening and intraoperative boundary detection.

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    Muyun Hu, Di Yang, Zihan Yang, Jianwei Shang, Jun Zhang, Yanmei Liang. Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tissue Imaging[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(10): 1017002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical optics and biotechnology

    Received: Nov. 4, 2021

    Accepted: Dec. 13, 2021

    Published Online: May. 10, 2022

    The Author Email: Liang Yanmei (ymliang@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1017002

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