Clinical NIR spectroscopy and optical tomography of the testis

Uwe Hampel; Eckhard Schleicher; H. Zepnick; Richard Freyer

doi:10.1117/12.447137

31 October 2001 Clinical NIR spectroscopy and optical tomography of the testis

Uwe Hampel, Eckhard Schleicher, H. Zepnick, Richard Freyer

Proceedings Volume 4432, Diagnostic Optical Spectroscopy in Biomedicine; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447137
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2001, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Optical tomography and NIR spectroscopy are potential methods to improve the diagnosis of testicular pathologies. To evaluate the methods clinically we developed a special measurement device with the capability of spatially resolved laser spectroscopy and optical tomography of the testis. Simple spectroscopy is primarily used to obtain global tissue optical properties of the testis and to find correlations of optical parameters with type and stage of certain pathologies. Optical tomography is applied to visualize spectral contrasts in limited tissue volumes, such as tumors. In the course of the study we will determine whether NIR techniques posses the required specifity and sensitivity to give additional quantitative information about tissue perfusion parameters and to serve for a tumor differentiation.

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Uwe Hampel, Eckhard Schleicher, H. Zepnick, and Richard Freyer "Clinical NIR spectroscopy and optical tomography of the testis", Proc. SPIE 4432, Diagnostic Optical Spectroscopy in Biomedicine, (31 October 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447137

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