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01-09-2013 | Proceedings
Highlighting peritumoral areas in human skin cancer biopsies by infrared micro-spectroscopy
Authors:
David Sebiskveradze, Cyril Gobinet, Valeriu Vrabie, Pierre Jeannesson, Olivier Piot, Michel Manfait
Published in:
Diagnostic Pathology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Fourier transform mid-infrared (FT–IR) microspectroscopy is a label-free optical method based on the interaction between an incident light beam and matter. This vibrational spectroscopy permits to probe the biochemical composition of the analyzed sample and thus gives information about the structure of this sample. Associated with an imaging system, FT–IR microspectroscopy of human tissues can be used as a very sensitive, non-destructive and non-subjective tool for the detection and localization of tumoral areas independently of visual morphology. Thus, FT–IR microimaging has demonstrated potential to provide clinically relevant diagnostic information in oncology [
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