Time of flight estimation for breast cancer margin thickness using embedded tumors

Tyler Bowman; Magda El-Shenawee; Lucas Campbell

doi:10.1117/12.2211167

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7 March 2016 Time of flight estimation for breast cancer margin thickness using embedded tumors

Tyler Bowman, Magda El-Shenawee, Lucas Campbell

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Proceedings Volume 9706, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXVII; 97061V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211167
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

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This work aims to enact a quick and reasonable estimation of breast cancer margin thickness using time of flight analysis of embedded breast cancer tissue. A pulsed terahertz system is used to obtain reflection imaging scans from breast cancer tumors that are formalin-fixed and embedded in paraffin blocks. Time of flight analysis is then used to compare the reflection patterns seen within the block to pathology sections and paraffin-embedded sections that are taken throughout the depth of the tumor in order to estimate the three-dimensional boundaries of the tumor.

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Tyler Bowman, Magda El-Shenawee, and Lucas Campbell "Time of flight estimation for breast cancer margin thickness using embedded tumors", Proc. SPIE 9706, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXVII, 97061V (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211167

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