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Olbrich K, Setkowicz Z, Kawon K, Czyzycki M, Janik-Olchawa N, Carlomagno I, Aquilanti G, Chwiej J. Vibrational spectroscopy methods for investigation of the animal models of glioblastoma multiforme. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2023; 303:123230. [PMID: 37586277 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and devastating primary brain tumor among adults. It is highly lethal disease, as only 25% of patients survive longer than 1 year and only 5% more than 5 years from the diagnosis. To search for the new, more effective methods of treatment, the understanding of mechanisms underlying the process of tumorigenesis is needed. The new light on this problem may be shed by the analysis of biochemical anomalies of tissues affected by tumor growth. Therefore, in the present work, we applied the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman microspectroscopy to evaluate changes in the distribution and structure of biomolecules appearing in the rat brain as a result of glioblastoma development. In turn, synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy was utilized to determine the elemental anomalies appearing in the nervous tissue. To achieve the assumed goals of the study animal models of GBM were used. The rats were subjected to the intracranial implantation of glioma cells with different degree of invasiveness. For spectroscopic investigation brain slices taken from the area of cancer cells administration were used. The obtained results revealed, among others, the decrease content of lipids and compounds containing carbonyl groups, compositional and structural changes of proteins as well as abnormalities in the distribution of low atomic number elements within the region of tumor.
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- Karolina Olbrich
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland.
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He Q, Tan Z, Chen D, Li H, Zhou L. Advancements and prospects of Raman spectroscopy in urological tumors: a bibliometric analysis. Lasers Med Sci 2023; 38:230. [PMID: 37792103 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-023-03897-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy exhibits potential as a tool for identifying the chemical composition of substances and has witnessed a growing application in urological oncology. This study undertook a bibliometric analysis to chart the present state and future prospects of Raman spectroscopy applications in urological tumors. The present study retrieved literature on the utilization of Raman spectroscopy in urological oncology from the Science Citation Index Expanded of Web of Science Core Collection, spanning from its inception to June 2023. Data from included studies were analyzed using CiteSpace, Python, and Excel. Our study examined 897 articles from 65 countries and identified a significant exponential growth in annual publications. The USA and China were prominent contributors to this field, with high publication rates and funding agencies. Shanghai Jiao Tong University emerged as the most influential institution. The journals Analytical Chemistry and Analyst were found to be the most productive. Our keyword analysis revealed an intense interest for "gold nanoparticle" and "pathology," with the most recent bursts occurring for "surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)," "biomarkers," and "prostate specific antigen." As a detection tool, Raman spectroscopy holds the potential to assist in the identification, management, and prognostication of urological tumors. Notably, adjuvant diagnosis and prognosis evaluation based on SERS of tumor markers is a hot research topic. These findings offer valuable insights into the current state of Raman spectroscopy research in urological oncology, which could inform future studies and clinical practice.
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- Qiyu He
- Department of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Zhang S, Qi Y, Tan SPH, Bi R, Olivo M. Molecular Fingerprint Detection Using Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Technologies for Cancer Detection: A Progress Review. BIOSENSORS 2023; 13:bios13050557. [PMID: 37232918 DOI: 10.3390/bios13050557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Revised: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Molecular vibrations play a crucial role in physical chemistry and biochemistry, and Raman and infrared spectroscopy are the two most used techniques for vibrational spectroscopy. These techniques provide unique fingerprints of the molecules in a sample, which can be used to identify the chemical bonds, functional groups, and structures of the molecules. In this review article, recent research and development activities for molecular fingerprint detection using Raman and infrared spectroscopy are discussed, with a focus on identifying specific biomolecules and studying the chemical composition of biological samples for cancer diagnosis applications. The working principle and instrumentation of each technique are also discussed for a better understanding of the analytical versatility of vibrational spectroscopy. Raman spectroscopy is an invaluable tool for studying molecules and their interactions, and its use is likely to continue to grow in the future. Research has demonstrated that Raman spectroscopy is capable of accurately diagnosing various types of cancer, making it a valuable alternative to traditional diagnostic methods such as endoscopy. Infrared spectroscopy can provide complementary information to Raman spectroscopy and detect a wide range of biomolecules at low concentrations, even in complex biological samples. The article concludes with a comparison of the techniques and insights into future directions.
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- Shuyan Zhang
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Nanos #07-01, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Nanos #07-01, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), 4 Engineering Drive 3 Block 4, #04-08, Singapore 117583, Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Nanos #07-01, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Nanos #07-01, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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郝 哲, 岳 蜀, 周 利. [Application of Raman-based technologies in the detection of urological tumors]. BEIJING DA XUE XUE BAO. YI XUE BAN = JOURNAL OF PEKING UNIVERSITY. HEALTH SCIENCES 2022; 54:779-784. [PMID: 35950408 PMCID: PMC9385527 DOI: 10.19723/j.issn.1671-167x.2022.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Urinary system tumors affect a huge number of individuals, and are frequently recurrent and progressing following surgery, necessitating lifelong surveillance. As a result, early and precise diagnosis of urinary system cancers is important for prevention and therapy. Histopathology is now the golden stan-dard for the diagnosis, but it is invasive, time-consuming, and inconvenient for initial diagnosis and re-gular follow-up assessment. Endoscopy can directly witness the tumor's structure, but intrusive detection is likely to cause harm to the patient's organs, and it is apt to create other hazards in frequently examined patients. Imaging is a valuable non-invasive and quick assessment tool; however, it can be difficult to define the type of lesions and has limited sensitivity for early tumor detection. The conventional approaches for detecting tumors have their own set of limitations. Thus, detection methods that combine non-invasive detection, label-free detection, high sensitivity and high specificity are urgently needed to aid clinical diagnosis. Optical diagnostics and imaging are increasingly being employed in healthcare settings in a variety of sectors. Raman scattering can assess changes in molecular signatures in cancer cells or tissues based on the interaction with vibrational modes of common molecular bonds. Due to the advantages of label-free, strong chemical selectivity, and high sensitivity, Raman scattering, especially coherent Raman scattering microscopy imaging with high spatial resolution, has been widely used in biomedical research. And quantity studies have shown that it has a good application in the detection and diagnosis of bladder can-cer, renal clear cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, and other cancers. In this paper, several nonlinear imaging techniques based on Raman scattering technology are briefly described, including Raman spectroscopy, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, stimulated Raman scattering, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. And we will discuss the application of these techniques for detecting urologic malignancy. Future research directions are predicted using the advantages and limitations of the aforesaid methodologies in the research. For clinical practice, Raman scattering technology is intended to enable more accurate, rapid, and non-invasive in early diagnosis, intraoperative margins, and pathological grading basis for clinical practice.
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- 哲 郝
- 北京航空航天大学生物与医学工程学院,北京市生物医学工程高精尖创新中心,生物力学与力生物学教育部重点实验室,医用光子学研究所,北京 100083School of Biological and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Medical Photonics, Beijing 100083, China
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- 北京航空航天大学生物与医学工程学院,北京市生物医学工程高精尖创新中心,生物力学与力生物学教育部重点实验室,医用光子学研究所,北京 100083School of Biological and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Medical Photonics, Beijing 100083, China
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- 北京航空航天大学生物与医学工程学院,北京市生物医学工程高精尖创新中心,生物力学与力生物学教育部重点实验室,医用光子学研究所,北京 100083School of Biological and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Medical Photonics, Beijing 100083, China
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Raman spectroscopy biochemical characterisation of bladder cancer cisplatin resistance regulated by FDFT1: a review. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2022; 27:9. [PMID: 35093030 PMCID: PMC8903573 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-022-00307-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in males. It can present across the whole continuum of severity, from mild through well-differentiated disease to extremely malignant tumours with poor survival rates. As with other vital organ malignancies, proper clinical management involves accurate diagnosis and staging. Chemotherapy consisting of a cisplatin-based regimen is the mainstay in the management of muscle-invasive bladder cancers. Control via cisplatin-based chemotherapy is threatened by the development of chemoresistance. Intracellular cholesterol biosynthesis in bladder cancer cells is considered a contributory factor in determining the chemotherapy response. Farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase 1 (FDFT1), one of the main regulatory components in cholesterol biosynthesis, may play a role in determining sensitivity towards chemotherapy compounds in bladder cancer. FDFT1-associated molecular identification might serve as an alternative or appendage strategy for early prediction of potentially chemoresistant muscle-invasive bladder cancer tissues. This can be accomplished using Raman spectroscopy. Developments in the instrumentation have led to it becoming one of the most convenient forms of analysis, and there is a highly realistic chance that it will become an effective tool in the pathology lab. Chemosensitive bladder cancer tissues tend to have a higher lipid content, more protein genes and more cholesterol metabolites. These are believed to be associated with resistance towards bladder cancer chemotherapy. Herein, Raman peak assignments have been tabulated as an aid to indicating metabolic changes in bladder cancer tissues that are potentially correlated with FDFT1 expression.
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Li L, Mustahsan VM, He G, Tavernier FB, Singh G, Boyce BF, Khan F, Kao I. Classification of Soft Tissue Sarcoma Specimens with Raman Spectroscopy as Smart Sensing Technology. CYBORG AND BIONIC SYSTEMS 2021; 2021:9816913. [PMID: 36285133 PMCID: PMC9494724 DOI: 10.34133/2021/9816913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Intraoperative confirmation of negative resection margins is an essential component of soft tissue sarcoma surgery. Frozen section examination of samples from the resection bed after excision of sarcomas is the gold standard for intraoperative assessment of margin status. However, it takes time to complete histologic examination of these samples, and the technique does not provide real-time diagnosis in the operating room (OR), which delays completion of the operation. This paper presents a study and development of sensing technology using Raman spectroscopy that could be used for detection and classification of the tumor after resection with negative sarcoma margins in real time. We acquired Raman spectra from samples of sarcoma and surrounding benign muscle, fat, and dermis during surgery and developed (i) a quantitative method (QM) and (ii) a machine learning method (MLM) to assess the spectral patterns and determine if they could accurately identify these tissue types when compared to findings in adjacent H&E-stained frozen sections. High classification accuracy (>85%) was achieved with both methods, indicating that these four types of tissue can be identified using the analytical methodology. A hand-held Raman probe could be employed to further develop the methodology to obtain spectra in the OR to provide real-time in vivo capability for the assessment of sarcoma resection margin status.
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- Liming Li
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
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Potcoava MC, Futia GL, Gibson EA, Schlaepfer IR. Lipid profiling using Raman and a modified support vector machine algorithm. JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY : JRS 2021; 52:1910-1922. [PMID: 35814195 PMCID: PMC9269992 DOI: 10.1002/jrs.6238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Lipid droplets are dynamic organelles that play important cellular roles. They are composed of a phospholipid membrane and a core of triglycerides and sterol esters. Fatty acids have important roles in phospholipid membrane formation, signaling, and synthesis of triglycerides as energy storage. Better non-invasive tools for profiling and measuring cellular lipids are needed. Here we demonstrate the potential of Raman spectroscopy to determine with high accuracy the composition changes of the fatty acids and cholesterol found in the lipid droplets of prostate cancer cells treated with various fatty acids. The methodology uses a modified least squares fitting (LSF) routine that uses highly discriminatory wavenumbers between the fatty acids present in the sample using a support vector machine algorithm. Using this new LSF routine, Raman micro-spectroscopy can become a better non-invasive tool for profiling and measuring fatty acids and cholesterol for cancer biology.
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- Mariana C. Potcoava
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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Liu Z, Zhang P, Wang H, Zheng B, Sun L, Zhang D, Fan J. Raman Spectrum-Based Diagnosis Strategy for Bladder Tumor. Urol Int 2021; 106:109-115. [PMID: 34515249 DOI: 10.1159/000518877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Raman spectroscopy is an optical technique that can potentially serve as a molecular diagnosis method. This approach is excellent in many aspects for diagnosing bladder tumors, and over the last 20 years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of related studies. However, no review article has covered the wide use of Raman spectroscopy in bladder tumors. A total of 26 original studies have suggested that Raman spectroscopy shows good performance in diagnosing bladder tumors from 4 aspects, including tissue sections, endoscopic methods, cell screening, and biomarkers. However, Raman spectroscopy needs to be modified by combining it with other techniques, and studies based on a large population are still urgently needed to expand its clinical value.
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- Zhenghong Liu
- The Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China, .,Department of Urology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China,
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- Department of Urology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Urology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Urology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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- Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Urology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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Manuchehri MS, Setarehdan SK. A robust time delay estimation method for ultrasonic echo signals and elastography. Comput Biol Med 2021; 136:104653. [PMID: 34304091 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Modern medicine cannot ignore the significance of elastography in diagnosis and treatment plans. Despite improvements in accuracy and spatial resolution of elastograms, robustness against noise remains a neglected attribute. A method that can perform in a satisfactory manner under noisy conditions may prove useful for various elastography methods. Here, we propose a method based on eigenvalue decomposition (EVD). In this method, the estimated time delay is defined as the index of the maximum element in the eigenvector that corresponds to the minimum eigenvalue in the covariance matrix of the received signal. Moreover, the implementation of the least-squares (LS) solution and the lower-upper (LU) decomposition contributes to improving the speed of computation and the accuracy of the estimation under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. To assess the performance of the proposed algorithm, it is evaluated along with generalized cross-correlation (GCC) and EVD. The simulation results clearly confirm that the jitter variance achieved in the proposed algorithm outperforms GCC and EVD in the proximity of the Cramer-Rau lower band. Moreover, our algorithm provides satisfactory performance in terms of variance and bias against sub-sample delay at low SNRS. According to the experimental results, the calculated values of the elastographic signal-to-noise ratio (SNRe) and the elastographic contrast-to-noise ratio (CNRe) of the proposed algorithm were 16.7 and 20.09, respectively, clearly better than the values of the other two methods. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm offers less execution time (about 30% of GCC), with a computational complexity equal to GCC and better than EVD.
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Distinct stratification of normal liver, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and anticancer nanomedicine-treated- tumor tissues by Raman fingerprinting for HCC therapeutic monitoring. NANOMEDICINE-NANOTECHNOLOGY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2021; 33:102352. [PMID: 33418135 DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2020.102352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) are highly vascularized neoplasms with poor prognosis. Nanomedicine possesses great potential to deliver therapeutics and diagnostics. The new aspect of this study is that we have monitored, for the first time, the Raman responses to microtubule targeted vascular disrupting agents (MTVDA), MTVDA encapsulated non-targeted, and targeted cetuximab polymeric nanocomplexes delivery of combinatorial therapeutics in HCC tumor tissues of mice. Biochemical differences majorly demarcated apoptotic lipid bodies, and characteristic amide-I features. HCC tumor and healthy liver tissues could be stratified. Raman spectroscopy served as an excellent, rapid, sensitive and cost-effective approach for anticancer nanomedicine distinct stratification of MTVDA encapsulated targeted cetuximab polymeric nanocomplex combinatorials, a significant potential for HCC therapeutic monitoring.
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Placzek F, Cordero Bautista E, Kretschmer S, Wurster LM, Knorr F, González-Cerdas G, Erkkilä MT, Stein P, Ataman Ç, Hermann GG, Mogensen K, Hasselager T, Andersen PE, Zappe H, Popp J, Drexler W, Leitgeb RA, Schie IW. Morpho-molecular ex vivo detection and grading of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer using forward imaging probe based multimodal optical coherence tomography and Raman spectroscopy. Analyst 2020; 145:1445-1456. [PMID: 31867582 DOI: 10.1039/c9an01911a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer affects millions of people worldwide, resulting in significant discomfort to the patient and potential death. Today, cystoscopy is the gold standard for bladder cancer assessment, using white light endoscopy to detect tumor suspected lesion areas, followed by resection of these areas and subsequent histopathological evaluation. Not only does the pathological examination take days, but due to the invasive nature, the performed biopsy can result in significant harm to the patient. Nowadays, optical modalities, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy (RS), have proven to detect cancer in real time and can provide more detailed clinical information of a lesion, e.g. its penetration depth (stage) and the differentiation of the cells (grade). In this paper, we present an ex vivo study performed with a combined piezoelectric tube-based OCT-probe and fiber optic RS-probe imaging system that allows large field-of-view imaging of bladder biopsies, using both modalities and co-registered visualization, detection and grading of cancerous bladder lesions. In the present study, 119 examined biopsies were characterized, showing that fiber-optic based OCT provides a sensitivity of 78% and a specificity of 69% for the detection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, while RS, on the other hand, provides a sensitivity of 81% and a specificity of 61% for the grading of low- and high-grade tissues. Moreover, the study shows that a piezoelectric tube-based OCT probe can have significant endurance, suitable for future long-lasting in vivo applications. These results also indicate that combined OCT and RS fiber probe-based characterization offers an exciting possibility for label-free and morpho-chemical optical biopsies for bladder cancer diagnostics.
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- Fabian Placzek
- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 4L, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Use of Raman spectroscopy to evaluate the biochemical composition of normal and tumoral human brain tissues for diagnosis. Lasers Med Sci 2020; 37:121-133. [PMID: 33159308 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-020-03173-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Raman spectroscopy was used to identify biochemical differences in normal brain tissue (cerebellum and meninges) compared to tumors (glioblastoma, medulloblastoma, schwannoma, and meningioma) through biochemical information obtained from the samples. A total of 263 spectra were obtained from fragments of the normal cerebellum (65), normal meninges (69), glioblastoma (28), schwannoma (8), medulloblastoma (19), and meningioma (74), which were collected using the dispersive Raman spectrometer (830 nm, near infrared, output power of 350 mW, 20 s exposure time to obtain the spectra), coupled to a Raman probe. A spectral model based on least squares fitting was developed to estimate the biochemical concentration of 16 biochemical compounds present in brain tissue, among those that most characterized brain tissue spectra, such as linolenic acid, triolein, cholesterol, sphingomyelin, phosphatidylcholine, β-carotene, collagen, phenylalanine, DNA, glucose, and blood. From the biochemical information, the classification of the spectra in the normal and tumor groups was conducted according to the type of brain tumor and corresponding normal tissue. The classification used in discrimination models were (a) the concentrations of the biochemical constituents of the brain, through linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and (b) the tissue spectra, through the discrimination by partial least squares (PLS-DA) regression. The models obtained 93.3% discrimination accuracy through the LDA between the normal and tumor groups of the cerebellum separated according to the concentration of biochemical constituents and 94.1% in the discrimination by PLS-DA using the whole spectrum. The results obtained demonstrated that the Raman technique is a promising tool to differentiate concentrations of biochemical compounds present in brain tissues, both normal and tumor. The concentrations estimated by the biochemical model and all the information contained in the Raman spectra were both able to classify the pathological groups.
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Heng HPS, Shu C, Zheng W, Lin K, Huang Z. Advances in real‐time fiber‐optic Raman spectroscopy for early cancer diagnosis: Pushing the frontier into clinical endoscopic applications. TRANSLATIONAL BIOPHOTONICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/tbio.202000018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- Howard Peng Sin Heng
- Optical Bioimaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
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- Optical Bioimaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
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- Optical Bioimaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
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- Optical Bioimaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
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- Optical Bioimaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
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Huttanus HM, Vu T, Guruli G, Tracey A, Carswell W, Said N, Du P, Parkinson BG, Orlando G, Robertson JL, Senger RS. Raman chemometric urinalysis (Rametrix) as a screen for bladder cancer. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0237070. [PMID: 32822394 PMCID: PMC7446794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Bladder cancer (BCA) is relatively common and potentially recurrent/progressive disease. It is also costly to detect, treat, and control. Definitive diagnosis is made by examination of urine sediment, imaging, direct visualization (cystoscopy), and invasive biopsy of suspect bladder lesions. There are currently no widely-used BCA-specific biomarker urine screening tests for early BCA or for following patients during/after therapy. Urine metabolomic screening for biomarkers is costly and generally unavailable for clinical use. In response, we developed Raman spectroscopy-based chemometric urinalysis (Rametrix™) as a direct liquid urine screening method for detecting complex molecular signatures in urine associated with BCA and other genitourinary tract pathologies. In particular, the RametrixTM screen used principal components (PCs) of urine Raman spectra to build discriminant analysis models that indicate the presence/absence of disease. The number of PCs included was varied, and all models were cross-validated by leave-one-out analysis. In Study 1 reported here, we tested the Rametrix™ screen using urine specimens from 56 consented patients from a urology clinic. This proof-of-concept study contained 17 urine specimens with active BCA (BCA-positive), 32 urine specimens from patients with other genitourinary tract pathologies, seven specimens from healthy patients, and the urinalysis control SurineTM. Using a model built with 22 PCs, BCA was detected with 80.4% accuracy, 82.4% sensitivity, 79.5% specificity, 63.6% positive predictive value (PPV), and 91.2% negative predictive value (NPV). Based on the number of PCs included, we found the RametrixTM screen could be fine-tuned for either high sensitivity or specificity. In other studies reported here, RametrixTM was also able to differentiate between urine specimens from patients with BCA and other genitourinary pathologies and those obtained from patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). While larger studies are needed to improve RametrixTM models and demonstrate clinical relevance, this study demonstrates the ability of the RametrixTM screen to differentiate urine of BCA-positive patients. Molecular signature variances in the urine metabolome of BCA patients included changes in: phosphatidylinositol, nucleic acids, protein (particularly collagen), aromatic amino acids, and carotenoids.
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- Herbert M. Huttanus
- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery–Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery–Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Internal Medicine, Lewis-Gale Medical Center, Salem, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Surgical Sciences–Transplant, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- DialySensors Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- DialySensors Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Cordero E, Rüger J, Marti D, Mondol AS, Hasselager T, Mogensen K, Hermann GG, Popp J, Schie IW. Bladder tissue characterization using probe-based Raman spectroscopy: Evaluation of tissue heterogeneity and influence on the model prediction. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2020; 13:e201960025. [PMID: 31617683 PMCID: PMC7065650 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201960025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Existing approaches for early-stage bladder tumor diagnosis largely depend on invasive and time-consuming procedures, resulting in hospitalization, bleeding, bladder perforation, infection and other health risks for the patient. The reduction of current risk factors, while maintaining or even improving the diagnostic precision, is an underlying factor in clinical instrumentation research. For example, for clinic surveillance of patients with a history of noninvasive bladder tumors real-time tumor diagnosis can enable immediate laser-based removal of tumors using flexible cystoscopes in the outpatient clinic. Therefore, novel diagnostic modalities are required that can provide real-time in vivo tumor diagnosis. Raman spectroscopy provides biochemical information of tissue samples ex vivo and in vivo and without the need for complicated sample preparation and staining procedures. For the past decade there has been a rise in applications to diagnose and characterize early cancer in different organs, such as in head and neck, colon and stomach, but also different pathologies, for example, inflammation and atherosclerotic plaques. Bladder pathology has also been studied but only with little attention to aspects that can influence the diagnosis, such as tissue heterogeneity, data preprocessing and model development. The present study presents a clinical investigative study on bladder biopsies to characterize the tumor grading ex vivo, using a compact fiber probe-based imaging Raman system, as a crucial step towards in vivo Raman endoscopy. Furthermore, this study presents an evaluation of the tissue heterogeneity of highly fluorescent bladder tissues, and the multivariate statistical analysis for discrimination between nontumor tissue, and low- and high-grade tumor.
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- Eliana Cordero
- Department of Spectroscopy and ImagingLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz‐IPHT)JenaGermany
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- Department of Spectroscopy and ImagingLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz‐IPHT)JenaGermany
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- Department of Health TechnologyTechnical University of Denmark (DTU)RoskildeDenmark
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- Department of Spectroscopy and ImagingLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz‐IPHT)JenaGermany
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- Department of Spectroscopy and ImagingLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz‐IPHT)JenaGermany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University JenaJenaGermany
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- Department of Spectroscopy and ImagingLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz‐IPHT)JenaGermany
- Department of Medical Engineering and BiotechnologyUniversity of Applied Sciences, JenaJenaGermany
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Jin H, Lin T, Han P, Yao Y, Zheng D, Hao J, Hu Y, Zeng R. Efficacy of Raman spectroscopy in the diagnosis of bladder cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 2019; 98:e18066. [PMID: 31764837 PMCID: PMC6882629 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000018066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Bladder cancer is one of the severest human malignancies which are hardly detected at an early stage. Raman spectroscopy is reported to maintain a high diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity in some tumors. METHODS We carried out a complete systematic review based on articles from PubMed/Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, Ovid, Web of Knowledge, Cochrane Library and CNKI. We identified 2341 spectra with strict criteria in 9 individual studies between 2004 and 2018 in accordance to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. We summarized the test performance using random effects models. RESULTS General pooled diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of RS to kidney cancer were 94% (95% CI 0.93-0.95) and 92% (95% CI 0.90-0.93). The pooled positive LR was 10.00 (95%CI 5.66-17.65) while the negative LR was 0.09 (95%CI 0.06-0.14). The pooled DOR was 139.53 (95% CI 54.60-356.58). The AUC of SROC was 0.9717. CONCLUSION Through this meta-analysis, we found a promisingly high sensitivity and specificity of RS in the diagnosis of suspected bladder masses and tumors. Other parameters like positive, negative LR, DOR, and AUC of the SROC curve all helped to illustrate the high efficacy of RS in bladder cancer diagnosis.
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- Hongyu Jin
- Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital
- West China School of Medicine
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China School of Medicine
- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Baria E, Morselli S, Anand S, Fantechi R, Nesi G, Gacci M, Carini M, Serni S, Cicchi R, Pavone FS. Label-free grading and staging of urothelial carcinoma through multimodal fibre-probe spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2019; 12:e201900087. [PMID: 31343832 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201900087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is the most common bladder tumour. Proper treatment requires tumour resection for diagnosing its grade (aggressiveness) and stage (invasiveness). White-light cystoscopy and histopathological examination are the gold standard procedures for clinical and histopathological diagnostics, respectively. However, cystoscopy is limited in terms of specificity, histology requires long tissue processing, both procedures rely on operator's experience. Multimodal optical spectroscopy can provide a powerful tool for detecting, staging and grading bladder tumours in a fast, reliable and label-free modality. In this study, we collected fluorescence, Raman and reflectance spectra from 50 biopsies obtained from 32 patients undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumour using a multimodal fibre-probe. Principal component analysis allowed distinguishing normal from pathological tissues, as well as discriminating tumour stages and grades. Each individual spectroscopic technique provided high specificity and sensitivity in classifying all tissues; however, a multimodal approach resulted in a considerable increase in diagnostic accuracy (≥95%), which is of paramount importance for tumour grading and staging. The presented method offers the potential for being applied in cystoscopy and for providing an automated diagnosis of UC at the clinical level, with an improvement with respect to current state-of-the-art procedures.
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- Enrico Baria
- National Institute of Optics, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Division of Urology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- National Institute of Optics, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Division of Urology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Pathology, Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Urology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Urology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Urology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- National Institute of Optics, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- National Institute of Optics, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Yang W, Mondol AS, Stiebing C, Marcu L, Popp J, Schie IW. Raman ChemLighter: Fiber optic Raman probe imaging in combination with augmented chemical reality. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2019; 12:e201800447. [PMID: 30848073 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201800447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy using fiber optic probe combines non-contacted and label-free molecular fingerprinting with high mechanical flexibility for biomedical, clinical and industrial applications. Inherently, fiber optic Raman probes provide information from a single point only, and the acquisition of images is not straightforward. For many applications, it is highly crucial to determine the molecular distribution and provide imaging information of the sample. Here, we propose an approach for Raman imaging using a handheld fiber optic probe, which is built around computer vision-based assessment of positional information and simultaneous acquisition of spectroscopic information. By combining this implementation with real-time data processing and analysis, it is possible to create not only fiber-based Raman imaging but also an augmented chemical reality image of the molecular distribution of the sample surface in real-time. We experimentally demonstrated that using our approach, it is possible to determine and to distinguish borders of different bimolecular compounds in a short time. Because the method can be transferred to other optical probes and other spectroscopic techniques, it is expected that the implementation will have a large impact for clinical, biomedical and industrial applications.
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- Wei Yang
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Jena, Germany
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Paraskevaidi M, Morais CLM, Freitas DLD, Lima KMG, Mann DMA, Allsop D, Martin-Hirsch PL, Martin FL. Blood-based near-infrared spectroscopy for the rapid low-cost detection of Alzheimer's disease. Analyst 2019; 143:5959-5964. [PMID: 30183030 DOI: 10.1039/c8an01205a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently under-diagnosed and is predicted to affect a great number of people in the future, due to the unrestrained aging of the population. An accurate diagnosis of AD at an early stage, prior to (severe) symptomatology, is of crucial importance as it would allow the subscription of effective palliative care and/or enrolment into specific clinical trials. Today, new analytical methods and research initiatives are being developed for the on-time diagnosis of this devastating disorder. During the last decade, spectroscopic techniques have shown great promise in the robust diagnosis of various pathologies, including neurodegenerative diseases and dementia. In the current study, blood plasma samples were analysed with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy as a minimally-invasive method to distinguish patients with AD (n = 111) from non-demented volunteers (n = 173). After applying multivariate classification models (principal component analysis with quadratic discriminant analysis - PCA-QDA), AD individuals were correctly identified with 92.8% accuracy, 87.5% sensitivity and 96.1% specificity. Our results show the potential of NIR spectroscopy as a simple and cost-effective diagnostic tool for AD. Robust and early diagnosis may be a first step towards tackling this disease by allowing timely intervention.
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- Maria Paraskevaidi
- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK.
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Ostovar Pour S, Fowler SM, Hopkins DL, Torley PJ, Gill H, Blanch EW. Investigation of chemical composition of meat using spatially off-set Raman spectroscopy. Analyst 2019; 144:2618-2627. [PMID: 30839950 DOI: 10.1039/c8an01958d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Spatially off-set Raman spectroscopy (SORS) offers non-invasive chemical characterisation of the sub-surface of various biological tissues as it permits the assessment of diffusely scattering samples at depths of several orders of magnitude deeper than conventional Raman spectroscopy. Chemicals such as glycogen, glucose, lactate and cortisol are predictors of meat quality, however detection of these chemicals is limited to the surface of meat using conventional Raman spectroscopy as their concentration is higher within the tissue. Here, we have used SORS to detect spectral bands for glycogen, lactate, glucose and cortisol beneath the surface of meat tissue by spiking. To our knowledge, this is the first report on this method for potential application in meat quality analysis. We further validate our SORS spectral results using chemometric analysis to determine chemical-specific spectral characteristics suitable for chemical identification. The chemometric analysis clearly shows distinction of spiked metabolites into four distinct groups, even for such chemically similar compounds as glucose, glycogen and lactate.
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- Saeideh Ostovar Pour
- School of Science, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
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Combination of High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography and Raman Spectroscopy for Improved Staging and Grading in Bladder Cancer. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app8122371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We present a combination of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy (RS) for improved diagnosis and discrimination of different stages and grades of bladder cancer ex vivo by linking the complementary information provided by these two techniques. Bladder samples were obtained from biopsies dissected via transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT). As OCT provides structural information rapidly, it was used as a red-flag technology to scan the bladder wall for suspicious lesions with the ability to discriminate malignant tissue from healthy urothelium. Upon identification of degenerated tissue via OCT, RS was implemented to determine the molecular characteristics via point measurements at suspicious sites. Combining the complementary information of both modalities allows not only for staging, but also for differentiation of low-grade and high-grade cancer based on a multivariate statistical analysis. OCT was able to clearly differentiate between healthy and malignant tissue by tomogram inspection and achieved an accuracy of 71% in the staging of the tumor, from pTa to pT2, through texture analysis followed by k-nearest neighbor classification. RS yielded an accuracy of 93% in discriminating low-grade from high-grade lesions via principal component analysis followed by k-nearest neighbor classification. In this study, we show the potential of a multi-modal approach with OCT for fast pre-screening and staging of cancerous lesions followed by RS for enhanced discrimination of low-grade and high-grade bladder cancer in a non-destructive, label-free and non-invasive way.
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Chen H, Li X, Broderick N, Liu Y, Zhou Y, Han J, Xu W. Identification and characterization of bladder cancer by low-resolution fiber-optic Raman spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2018; 11:e201800016. [PMID: 29797794 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201800016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy has been proved to be a promising diagnostic technique for various cancers detection. A major drawback for its clinical translation is the intrinsic weakness of Raman effects. Highly sensitive equipment and optimal measurement conditions are generally applied to overcome this drawback. However, these equipment are usually bulky, expensive and may also be easily influenced by surrounding environment. In this preliminary work, a low-resolution fiber-optic Raman sensing system is applied to evaluate the diagnostic potential of Raman spectroscopy to identify different bladder pathologies ex vivo. A total number of 262 spectra taken from 32 bladder specimens are included in this study. These spectra are categorized into 3 groups by histopathological analysis, namely normal bladder tissues, low-grade bladder tumors and high-grade bladder tumors. Principal component analysis fed artificial neural network are used to train a classification model for the spectral data with 10-fold cross-validation and an overall prediction accuracy of 93.1% is obtained. The sensitivities and specificities for normal bladder tissues, low-grade bladder tumors and high-grade bladder tumors are 88.5% and 95.1%, 90.3% and 98%, and 97.5% and 96.4%, respectively. These results demonstrate the potential of using a low-resolution fiber-optic Raman system for in vivo bladder cancer diagnosis.
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- Hao Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Urology, The General Hospital of Shenyang Military, Shenyang, China
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- The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China
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- Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China
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- College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Nankai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Histopathology plays a central role in diagnosis of many diseases including solid cancers. Efforts are underway to transform this subjective art to an objective and quantitative science. Coherent Raman imaging (CRI), a label-free imaging modality with sub-cellular spatial resolution and molecule-specific contrast possesses characteristics which could support the qualitative-to-quantitative transition of histopathology. In this work we briefly survey major themes related to modernization of histopathology, review applications of CRI to histopathology and, finally, discuss potential roles for CRI in the transformation of histopathology that is already underway.
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Cordero E, Latka I, Matthäus C, Schie I, Popp J. In-vivo Raman spectroscopy: from basics to applications. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2018; 23:1-23. [PMID: 29956506 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.23.7.071210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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For more than two decades, Raman spectroscopy has found widespread use in biological and medical applications. The instrumentation and the statistical evaluation procedures have matured, enabling the lengthy transition from ex-vivo demonstration to in-vivo examinations. This transition goes hand-in-hand with many technological developments and tightly bound requirements for a successful implementation in a clinical environment, which are often difficult to assess for novice scientists in the field. This review outlines the required instrumentation and instrumentation parameters, designs, and developments of fiber optic probes for the in-vivo applications in a clinical setting. It aims at providing an overview of contemporary technology and clinical trials and attempts to identify future developments necessary to bring the emerging technology to the clinical end users. A comprehensive overview of in-vivo applications of fiber optic Raman probes to characterize different tissue and disease types is also given.
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- Eliana Cordero
- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Germany
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
- Abbe Ctr. of Photonics, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Germany
- Institute für Physikalische Chemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
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Upchurch E, Isabelle M, Lloyd GR, Kendall C, Barr H. An update on the use of Raman spectroscopy in molecular cancer diagnostics: current challenges and further prospects. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2018; 18:245-258. [DOI: 10.1080/14737159.2018.1439739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Emma Upchurch
- Department of Upper GI Surgery, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
- Biophotonics Research Unit, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
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- Phenome Centre Birmingham, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
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- Biophotonics Research Unit, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
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- Department of Upper GI Surgery, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
- Biophotonics Research Unit, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
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Jafarzadeh N, Mani-Varnosfaderani A, Gilany K, Eynali S, Ghaznavi H, Shakeri-Zadeh A. The molecular cues for the biological effects of ionizing radiation dose and post-irradiation time on human breast cancer SKBR3 cell line: A Raman spectroscopy study. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2018; 180:1-8. [PMID: 29413692 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Radiotherapy is one of the main modalities of cancer treatment. The utility of Raman spectroscopy (RS) for detecting the distinct radiobiological responses in human cancer cells is currently under investigation. RS holds great promises to provide good opportunities for personalizing radiotherapy treatments. Here, we report the effects of the radiation dose and post-irradiation time on the molecular changes in the human breast cancer SKBR3 cells, using RS. The SKBR3 cells were irradiated by gamma radiation with different doses of 0, 1, 2, 4, and 6 Gy. The Raman signals were acquired 24 and 48 h after the gamma radiation. The collected Raman spectra were analyzed by different statistical methods such as principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, and genetic algorithm. A thorough analysis of the obtained Raman signals revealed that 2 Gy of gamma radiation induces remarkable molecular and structural changes in the SKBR3 cells. We found that the wavenumbers in the range of 1000-1400 cm-1 in Raman spectra are selective for discriminating between the effects of the different doses of irradiation. The results also revealed that longer post-irradiation time leads to the relaxation of the cells to their initial state. The molecular changes that occurred in the 2Gy samples were mostly reversible. On the other hand, the exposure to doses higher than 4Gy induced serious irreversible changes, mainly seen in 2700-2800 cm-1 in Raman spectra. The classification models developed in this study would help to predict the radiation-based molecular changes induced in the cancer cells by only using RS. Also, this designed framework may facilitate the process of biodosimetry.
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- Naser Jafarzadeh
- Department of Medical Physics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Reproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Radiation Biology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pharmacology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
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- Radiation Biology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Medical Physics Department, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran.
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Botta R, Chindaudom P, Eiamchai P, Horprathum M, Limwichean S, Chananonnawathorn C, Patthanasettakul V, Kaewseekhao B, Faksri K, Nuntawong N. Tuberculosis determination using SERS and chemometric methods. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2018. [PMID: 29523323 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2017.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Nanostructures have been multiplying the advantages of Raman spectroscopy and further amplify the advantages of Raman spectroscopy is a continuous effort focused on the appropriate design of nanostructures. Herein, we designed different shapes of plasmonic nanostructures such as Vertical, Zig Zag, Slant nanorods and Spherical nanoparticles employing the DC magnetron sputtering system as SERS-active substrates for ultrasensitive detection of target molecules. The fabricated plasmonic nanostructures sensitivity and uniformity were exploited by reference dye analyte. These nanostructures were utilized in the label free detection of infectious disease, Tuberculosis (TB). For the first time, TB detection from serum samples using SERS has been demonstrated. Various multivariate statistical methods such as principal component analysis, support vector machine, decision tree and random forest were developed and tested their ability to discriminate the healthy and active TB samples. The results demonstrate the performance of the SERS spectra, chemometric methods and potential of the method in clinical diagnosis.
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- Raju Botta
- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology and Research and Diagnostic Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (RCEID), Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology and Research and Diagnostic Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (RCEID), Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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de Carvalho LFDCES, Saito Nogueira M. New insights of Raman spectroscopy for oral clinical applications. Analyst 2018; 143:6037-6048. [DOI: 10.1039/c8an01363b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Oral injuries are currently diagnosed by histopathological analysis of biopsy, which is an invasive procedure and does not give immediate results.
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Abramczyk H, Brozek-Pluska B. Apical-basal polarity of epithelial cells imaged by Raman microscopy and Raman imaging: Capabilities and challenges for cancer research. J Mol Liq 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.05.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Yosef HK, Krauß SD, Lechtonen T, Jütte H, Tannapfel A, Käfferlein HU, Brüning T, Roghmann F, Noldus J, Mosig A, El-Mashtoly SF, Gerwert K. Noninvasive Diagnosis of High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma in Urine by Raman Spectral Imaging. Anal Chem 2017; 89:6893-6899. [PMID: 28541036 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b01403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The current gold standard for the diagnosis of bladder cancer is cystoscopy, which is invasive and painful for patients. Therefore, noninvasive urine cytology is usually used in the clinic as an adjunct to cystoscopy; however, it suffers from low sensitivity. Here, a novel noninvasive, label-free approach with high sensitivity for use with urine is presented. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging of urine sediments was used in the first step for fast preselection of urothelial cells, where high-grade urothelial cancer cells are characterized by a large nucleus-to-cytoplasm ratio. In the second step, Raman spectral imaging of urothelial cells was performed. A supervised classifier was implemented to automatically differentiate normal and cancerous urothelial cells with 100% accuracy. In addition, the Raman spectra not only indicated the morphological changes that are identified by cytology with hematoxylin and eosin staining but also provided molecular resolution through the use of specific marker bands. The respective Raman marker bands directly show a decrease in the level of glycogen and an increase in the levels of fatty acids in cancer cells as compared to controls. These results pave the way for "spectral" cytology of urine using Raman microspectroscopy.
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- Hesham K Yosef
- Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Bergmannsheil Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44789 Bochum, Germany
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- Bergmannsheil Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44789 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum (IPA) , 44789 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum (IPA) , 44789 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44625 Herne, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44625 Herne, Germany
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- Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum , 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Daniel A, P. A, Ganesan S, Joseph L. Biochemical assessment of human uterine cervix by micro-Raman mapping. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2017; 17:65-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2016.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Revised: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Brindha E, Rajasekaran R, Aruna P, Koteeswaran D, Ganesan S. High wavenumber Raman spectroscopy in the characterization of urinary metabolites of normal subjects, oral premalignant and malignant patients. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2017; 171:52-59. [PMID: 27475997 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2016.06.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Revised: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Urine has emerged as one of the diagnostically potential bio fluids, as it has many metabolites. As the concentration and the physiochemical properties of the urinary metabolites may vary under pathological transformation, Raman spectroscopic characterization of urine has been exploited as a significant tool in identifying several diseased conditions, including cancers. In the present study, an attempt was made to study the high wavenumber (HWVN) Raman spectroscopic characterization of urine samples of normal subjects, oral premalignant and malignant patients. It is concluded that the urinary metabolites flavoproteins, tryptophan and phenylalanine are responsible for the observed spectral variations between the normal and abnormal groups. Principal component analysis-based linear discriminant analysis was carried out to verify the diagnostic potentiality of the present technique. The discriminant analysis performed across normal and oral premalignant subjects classifies 95.6% of the original and 94.9% of the cross-validated grouped cases correctly. In the second analysis performed across normal and oral malignant groups, the accuracy of the original and cross-validated grouped cases was 96.4% and 92.1% respectively. Similarly, the third analysis performed across three groups, normal, oral premalignant and malignant groups, classifies 93.3% and 91.2% of the original and cross-validated grouped cases correctly.
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Jermyn M, Desroches J, Aubertin K, St-Arnaud K, Madore WJ, De Montigny E, Guiot MC, Trudel D, Wilson BC, Petrecca K, Leblond F. A review of Raman spectroscopy advances with an emphasis on clinical translation challenges in oncology. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:R370-R400. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/23/r370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cicerone M. Molecular imaging with CARS micro-spectroscopy. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2016; 33:179-85. [PMID: 27400394 PMCID: PMC5018446 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2016] [Revised: 04/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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After more than a decade of instrument and method development, broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) micro-spectroscopy is beginning to live up to its potential as a label-free imaging modality that can rapidly generate high resolution images with full vibrational spectra at each image pixel. Presently these instruments are able to obtain quantitative, spatially resolved information on lipids from the CH stretch region of the Raman spectrum, and some instrument designs facilitate acquisition of high quality fingerprint spectra, containing information on a host of molecular species including structural proteins, nucleotides, and metabolites. While most of the existing instruments are research projects themselves, it appears that the relevant technologies are maturing so that commercially available instruments may not be too far in the future, making this remarkable imaging modality widely available.
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- Marcus Cicerone
- NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States.
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Stevens O, Iping Petterson IE, Day JCC, Stone N. Developing fibre optic Raman probes for applications in clinical spectroscopy. Chem Soc Rev 2016; 45:1919-34. [PMID: 26956027 DOI: 10.1039/c5cs00850f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Raman spectroscopy has been shown by various groups over the last two decades to have significant capability in discriminating disease states in bodily fluids, cells and tissues. Recent development in instrumentation, optics and manufacturing approaches has facilitated the design and demonstration of various novel in vivo probes, which have applicability for myriad of applications. This review focusses on key considerations and recommendations for application specific clinical Raman probe design and construction. Raman probes can be utilised as clinical tools able to provide rapid, non-invasive, real-time molecular analysis of disease specific changes in tissues. Clearly the target tissue location, the significance of spectral changes with disease and the possible access routes to the region of interest will vary for each clinical application considered. This review provides insight into design and construction considerations, including suitable probe designs and manufacturing materials compatible with Raman spectroscopy.
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- Oliver Stevens
- Biomedical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QL, UK.
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Testicular sperm extraction (TESE) technique and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection are breakthrough fertility treatments for men with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA). Newer advances such as the microdissection-TESE (micro-TESE) technique have continued to build upon past success by improving sperm retrieval and minimizing the postoperative complications compared to TESE. However, even with micro-TESE, sperm retrieval success has ranged from 40% to 60% due to the technique's dependence on surgeon and embryologist experience. While postoperative complications are minimal relative to the traditional TESE technique, testicular tissue must still be extracted without the knowledge of whether sperm are present in biopsies. In this review, we discuss the innovations in the surgical management of men with NOA and describe the novel experimental approaches that can improve sperm retrieval success.
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- Renzhong Ran
- Department of Urology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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Whole exome sequencing of rare aggressive breast cancer histologies. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2016; 156:21-32. [DOI: 10.1007/s10549-016-3718-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Osterberg EC, Laudano MA, Li PS. Clinical and investigative applications of Raman spectroscopy in Urology and Andrology. Transl Androl Urol 2016; 3:84-8. [PMID: 26816755 PMCID: PMC4708296 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4683.2014.01.02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Raman spectroscopy (RS) is an optical technique that allows for real-time interrogation of biologic tissues with chemical specificity. Using a diode laser, incident photons are scattered on the tissue of interest and the spectral wavelength output is a reflection of the tissues’ molecular fingerprint. Naturally, this technology has come into clinical usage to evaluate benign versus malignant tissue. Within the field of Urology, RS has seen tremendous growth as an optical biopsy tool for the real-time evaluation of diseases of the bladder, prostate, kidney, and testis. With such growing fervor for this emerging spectroscopic modality, we present a current summary of clinical studies utilizing RS within Urology and Andrology to highlight its potential applications.
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- E Charles Osterberg
- Department of Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Du Y, Huang Z, Wang L, Huang L, Cao P, He D, zhang Y, Wu D, Yang Z, Fan J. A novel diagnostic method of Raman spectroscopy for malignant pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra18312c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Raman spectroscopy, a potential tool in diagnosis of malignant pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma.
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- Yiqing Du
- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
- Department of Urology
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery
- Tangdu Hospital
- The Fourth Military Medical University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Non-equilibrium Condensed Matter and Quantum Engineering Laboratory
- The Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education
- School of Science
- Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
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- Department of Pathology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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- Department of Urology
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Xi'an
- China
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Raman spectroscopy is increasingly investigated for cancer diagnosis. As the potential of the technique is explored and realized, it is slowly making its way into clinics. There are more reports in recent years showing promise that it can help clinicians for cancer diagnosis. However, a number of challenges remain to be overcome, especially in vivo cancer diagnosis. In this article, the recent progress of the technique toward clinical cancer diagnosis is discussed from a critical perspective.
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Som D, Tak M, Setia M, Patil A, Sengupta A, Chilakapati CMK, Srivastava A, Parmar V, Nair N, Sarin R, Badwe R. A grid matrix-based Raman spectroscopic method to characterize different cell milieu in biopsied axillary sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer patients. Lasers Med Sci 2015; 31:95-111. [DOI: 10.1007/s10103-015-1830-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 10/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lee YJ, Ahn HJ, Lee GJ, Jung GB, Lee G, Kim D, Shin JH, Jin KH, Park HK. Investigation of biochemical property changes in activation-induced CD8+ T cell apoptosis using Raman spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2015; 20:75001. [PMID: 26140459 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.20.7.075001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The study was to investigate the changes in biochemical properties of activated mature CD8+ T cells related to apoptosis at a molecular level. We confirmed the activation and apoptosis of CD8+ T cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and atomic force microscopy and then performed Raman spectral measurements on activated mature CD8+ T cells and cellular deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). In the activated mature CD8+ T cells, there were increases in protein spectra at 1002 and 1234 cm -1 . In particular, to assess the apoptosis-related DNA spectral signatures, we investigated the spectra of the cellular DNA isolated from resting and activated mature CD8+ T cells. Raman spectra at 765 to 786 cm -1 and 1053 to 1087 cm -1 were decreased in activated mature DNA. In addition, we analyzed Raman spectrum using the multivariate statistical method including principal component analysis. Raman spectra of activated mature DNA are especially well-discriminated from those of resting DNA. Our findings regarding the biochemical and structural changes associated with apoptosis in activated mature T cells and cellular DNA according to Raman spectroscopy provide important insights into allospecific immune responses generated after organ transplantation, and may be useful for therapeutic manipulation of the immune response
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- Young Ju Lee
- Kyung Hee University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Industry Research Institute, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Seoul 130-872, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Industry Research Institute, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of KoreacGraduate School Kyung Hee University, Department of Medical Engineering, 1 Hoegi-dong, Don
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Industry Research Institute, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
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- Myongji University, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, 116 Myongji-ro, Cheoin-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi 449-72, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
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- Kyung Hee University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Industry Research Institute, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of KoreacGraduate School Kyung Hee University, Department of Medical Engineering, 1 Hoegi-dong, Don
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Wang W, Zhao J, Short M, Zeng H. Real-time in vivo cancer diagnosis using Raman spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2015; 8:527-45. [PMID: 25220508 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201400026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Revised: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy has becoming a practical tool for rapid in vivo tissue diagnosis. This paper provides an overview on the latest development of real-time in vivo Raman systems for cancer detection. Instrumentation, data handling, as well as oncology applications of Raman techniques were covered. Optic fiber probes designs for Raman spectroscopy were discussed. Spectral data pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification between normal/benign and malignant tissues were surveyed. Applications of Raman techniques for clinical diagnosis for different types of cancers, including skin cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, oesophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, and breast cancer, were summarized. Schematic of a real-time Raman spectrometer for skin cancer detection. Without correction, the image captured on CCD camera for a straight entrance slit has a curvature. By arranging the optic fiber array in reverse orientation, the curvature could be effectively corrected.
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- Wenbo Wang
- Imaging Unit - Integrative Oncology Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1L3, Canada
- Photomedicine Institute, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Imaging Unit - Integrative Oncology Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1L3, Canada
- Photomedicine Institute, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Imaging Unit - Integrative Oncology Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Imaging Unit - Integrative Oncology Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1L3, Canada
- Photomedicine Institute, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Gaggini MCR, Navarro RS, Stefanini AR, Sano RS, Silveira L. Correlation between METAVIR scores and Raman spectroscopy in liver lesions induced by hepatitis C virus: a preliminary study. Lasers Med Sci 2015; 30:1347-55. [PMID: 25794591 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-015-1741-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2013] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The viral hepatitis C is one of the most important causes of chronic hepatic illness worldwide, affecting around 3 % of the world population. Raman spectroscopy has been employed to distinguish normal from hepatic lesions through differences in the spectral features related to the METAVIR score system. This preliminary study evaluated 11 patients with diagnoses of chronic hepatitis C who underwent hepatic biopsies; the biopsies were submitted to near-infrared Raman spectroscopy using a dispersive spectrometer (830-nm wavelength, 300-mW laser power, and 20-s exposure time). The METAVIR was further scored, and the spectra were submitted to principal component analysis (PCA). The results show a good correlation between the Raman spectroscopy features and the stage of hepatic inflammation and fibrosis. PCA showed that samples with a higher degree of fibrosis presented a higher amount of protein features (collagen), whereas samples with a higher degree of inflammation presented higher features of hemoglobin, in accordance to the expected evolution of chronic hepatitis. Quinone was found to be an important biomarker in early hepatic lesions with a spectral feature at 1595 cm(-1). This study demonstrates that Raman spectroscopy may become an important tool for diagnosing liver disease.
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- Marcio Cesar Reino Gaggini
- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco-UNICASTELO, Parque Tecnológico de São José dos Campos, Estr. Altino Bondesan, no 500, São José dos Campos, SP, 12247-015, Brazil
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Kong K, Zaabar F, Rakha E, Ellis I, Koloydenko A, Notingher I. Towards intra-operative diagnosis of tumours during breast conserving surgery by selective-sampling Raman micro-spectroscopy. Phys Med Biol 2014; 59:6141-52. [PMID: 25255041 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/20/6141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is increasingly employed for the treatment of early stage breast cancer. One of the key challenges in BCS is to ensure complete removal of the tumour while conserving as much healthy tissue as possible. In this study we have investigated the potential of Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS) for automated intra-operative evaluation of tumour excision. First, a multivariate classification model based on Raman spectra of normal and malignant breast tissue samples was built and achieved diagnosis of mammary ductal carcinoma (DC) with 95.6% sensitivity and 96.2% specificity (5-fold cross-validation). The tumour regions were discriminated from the healthy tissue structures based on increased concentration of nucleic acids and reduced concentration of collagen and fat. The multivariate classification model was then applied to sections from fresh tissue of new patients to produce diagnosis images for DC. The diagnosis images obtained by raster scanning RMS were in agreement with the conventional histopathology diagnosis but were limited to long data acquisition times (typically 10,000 spectra mm(-2), which is equivalent to ~5 h mm(-2)). Selective-sampling based on integrated auto-fluorescence imaging and Raman spectroscopy was used to reduce the number of Raman spectra to ~20 spectra mm(-2), which is equivalent to an acquisition time of ~15 min for 5 × 5 mm(2) tissue samples. This study suggests that selective-sampling Raman microscopy has the potential to provide a rapid and objective intra-operative method to detect mammary carcinoma in tissue and assess resection margins.
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- Kenny Kong
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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Sattlecker M, Stone N, Bessant C. Current trends in machine-learning methods applied to spectroscopic cancer diagnosis. Trends Analyt Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Liu Y, Zhu Y, Di L, Osterberg EC, Liu F, He L, Hu H, Huang Y, Li PS, Li Z. Raman spectroscopy as an ex vivo noninvasive approach to distinguish complete and incomplete spermatogenesis within human seminiferous tubules. Fertil Steril 2014; 102:54-60.e2. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Revised: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Canetta E, Riches A, Borger E, Herrington S, Dholakia K, Adya AK. Discrimination of bladder cancer cells from normal urothelial cells with high specificity and sensitivity: combined application of atomic force microscopy and modulated Raman spectroscopy. Acta Biomater 2014; 10:2043-55. [PMID: 24406196 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.12.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2013] [Revised: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Abstract
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and modulated Raman spectroscopy (MRS) were used to discriminate between living normal human urothelial cells (SV-HUC-1) and bladder tumour cells (MGH-U1) with high specificity and sensitivity. MGH-U1 cells were 1.5-fold smaller, 1.7-fold thicker and 1.4-fold rougher than normal SV-HUC-1 cells. The adhesion energy was 2.6-fold higher in the MGH-U1 cells compared to normal SV-HUC-1 cells, which possibly indicates that bladder tumour cells are more deformable than normal cells. The elastic modulus of MGH-U1 cells was 12-fold lower than SV-HUC-1 cells, suggesting a higher elasticity of the bladder cancer cell membranes. The biochemical fingerprints of cancer cells displayed a higher DNA and lipid content, probably due to an increase in the nuclear to cytoplasm ratio. Normal cells were characterized by higher protein contents. AFM studies revealed a decrease in the lateral dimensions and an increase in thickness of cancer cells compared to normal cells; these studies authenticate the observations from MRS. Nanostructural, nanomechanical and biochemical profiles of bladder cells provide qualitative and quantitative markers to differentiate between normal and cancerous cells at the single cellular level. AFM and MRS allow discrimination between adhesion energy, elasticity and Raman spectra of SV-HUC-1 and MGH-U1 cells with high specificity (83, 98 and 95%) and sensitivity (97, 93 and 98%). Such single-cell-level studies could have a pivotal impact on the development of AFM-Raman combined methodologies for cancer profiling and screening with translational significance.
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- Elisabetta Canetta
- School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Abertay University, Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG, UK; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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- School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK
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- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK
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- School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Abertay University, Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG, UK.
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Tomaiuolo G, Rusciano G, Caserta S, Carciati A, Carnovale V, Abete P, Sasso A, Guido S. A new method to improve the clinical evaluation of cystic fibrosis patients by mucus viscoelastic properties. PLoS One 2014; 9:e82297. [PMID: 24404129 PMCID: PMC3880261 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In cystic fibrosis (CF) patients airways mucus shows an increased viscoelasticity due to the concentration of high molecular weight components. Such mucus thickening eventually leads to bacterial overgrowth and prevents mucus clearance. The altered rheological behavior of mucus results in chronic lung infection and inflammation, which causes most of the cases of morbidity and mortality, although the cystic fibrosis complications affect other organs as well. Here, we present a quantitative study on the correlation between cystic fibrosis mucus viscoelasticity and patients clinical status. In particular, a new diagnostic parameter based on the correlation between CF sputum viscoelastic properties and the severity of the disease, expressed in terms of FEV1 and bacterial colonization, was developed. By using principal component analysis, we show that the types of colonization and FEV1 classes are significantly correlated to the elastic modulus, and that the latter can be used for CF severity classification with a high predictive efficiency (88%). The data presented here show that the elastic modulus of airways mucus, given the high predictive efficiency, could be used as a new clinical parameter in the prognostic evaluation of cystic fibrosis.
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- Giovanna Tomaiuolo
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
- CEINGE-Advanced Biotechnologies, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario M.S. Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
- CEINGE-Advanced Biotechnologies, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze mediche Traslazionali - Unità di Fibrosi Cistica dell’adulto, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze mediche Traslazionali - Unità di Fibrosi Cistica dell’adulto, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario M.S. Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
- CEINGE-Advanced Biotechnologies, Napoli, Italy
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