Optical techniques for cervical neoplasia detection

• Tatiana Novikova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1844–1862, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.186

• endomicroscopy; Mueller polarimetry; nanotheranostics; optical coherence tomography; optical spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; Review Introduction Cervical cancer remains one of the major health issues, causing 266000 deaths of women worldwide in 2012 [1]. While the highest incidence rate of cervical cancers

• such as diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, in vivo confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography and multi-wavelength imaging Mueller polarimetry, as well as the combination of different techniques have been explored to improve the detection of cervical

• QDs for molecular imaging in cancer theranostics the possible side effects (toxicity, disruption of cellular processes) also need to be considered [90]. Mueller polarimetry There is an emerging set of optical techniques based on the detection of changes in the polarization of light instead of (or