SWIR Fluorescence Endoscopy for Tumor Imaging

Suo, Yongkuan, Northeastern Univ.; Liu, Hongguang, Northeastern Univ.; Cheng, Zhen, Stanford Univ.

doi:10.1117/3.2604326.ch9

Book: Short-Wavelength Infrared Windows for Biomedical Applications

Editor(s): Laura A. Sordillo; Peter P. Sordillo

Author(s): Yongkuan Suo, Hongguang Liu, Zhen Cheng

Published: 2021

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2604326.ch9

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Abstract

Interventional therapy, supported by medical imaging (angiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, or endoscopy), uses the natural lumen of the human body to treat a blood vessel or lesioned part of the body. Interventional therapy has the advantages of minimal trauma, few complications, quick curative effects, strong reproducibility, and short recovery time for patients. In addition, interventional therapy has been widely used in medical treatments of vascular thrombolysis, in vascular stents, and for diseases of internal organs—such as the lungs, esophagus, stomach, and intestines—and of the abdominal cavity.