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Wang Y, Fang L, Wang Y, Xiong Z. Current Trends of Raman Spectroscopy in Clinic Settings: Opportunities and Challenges. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2300668. [PMID: 38072672 PMCID: PMC10870035 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Early clinical diagnosis, effective intraoperative guidance, and an accurate prognosis can lead to timely and effective medical treatment. The current conventional clinical methods have several limitations. Therefore, there is a need to develop faster and more reliable clinical detection, treatment, and monitoring methods to enhance their clinical applications. Raman spectroscopy is noninvasive and provides highly specific information about the molecular structure and biochemical composition of analytes in a rapid and accurate manner. It has a wide range of applications in biomedicine, materials, and clinical settings. This review primarily focuses on the application of Raman spectroscopy in clinical medicine. The advantages and limitations of Raman spectroscopy over traditional clinical methods are discussed. In addition, the advantages of combining Raman spectroscopy with machine learning, nanoparticles, and probes are demonstrated, thereby extending its applicability to different clinical phases. Examples of the clinical applications of Raman spectroscopy over the last 3 years are also integrated. Finally, various prospective approaches based on Raman spectroscopy in clinical studies are surveyed, and current challenges are discussed.
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- Yumei Wang
- Department of NephrologyUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430022China
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- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical ProcessWuhan University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430081China
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- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical ProcessWuhan University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430081China
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- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical ProcessWuhan University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430081China
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Weng S, Zhu R, Wu Y, Wang C, Li P, Zheng L, Liang D, Duan Z. Acceleration of high-quality Raman imaging via a locality enhanced transformer network. Analyst 2023; 148:6282-6291. [PMID: 37971331 DOI: 10.1039/d3an01543b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Raman imaging (RI) is an outstanding technique that enables molecular-level medical diagnostics and therapy assessment by providing characteristic fingerprint and morphological information about molecules. However, obtaining high-quality Raman images generally requires a long acquisition time, up to hours, which is prohibitive for RI applications of timely cytopathology and histopathology analyses. To address this issue, image super-resolution (SR) based on deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and transformers, has been widely recognized as an effective solution to reduce the time required for achieving high-quality RI. In this study, a locality enhanced transformer network (LETNet) is proposed to perform Raman image SR. Specifically, the general architecture of the transformer is adopted with the replacement of self-attention by convolution to generate high-fidelity and detailed SR images. Additionally, the convolution in the LETNet is further optimized by utilizing depth-wise convolution to improve the computational efficiency of the model. Experiments on hyperspectral Raman images of breast cancer cells and Raman images of a few channels of brain tumor tissues demonstrate that the LETNet achieves superior 2×, 4×, and 8× SR with fewer parameters compared with other SR methods. Consequently, high-quality Raman images can be obtained with a significant reduction in time, ranging from 4 to 64 times. Overall, the proposed method provides a novel, efficient, and reliable solution to expedite high-quality RI and promote its application in real-time diagnosis and therapy.
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- Shizhuang Weng
- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- Institute of Health and Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Hefei 230601, China
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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- School of Internet, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
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Krafft C, Popp J, Bronsert P, Miernik A. Raman Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Bladder Resectates towards Intraoperative Cancer Assessment. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15072162. [PMID: 37046822 PMCID: PMC10093366 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15072162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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Raman spectroscopy offers label-free assessment of bladder tissue for in vivo and ex vivo intraoperative applications. In a retrospective study, control and cancer specimens were prepared from ten human bladder resectates. Raman microspectroscopic images were collected from whole tissue samples in a closed chamber at 785 nm laser excitation using a 20× objective lens and 250 µm step size. Without further preprocessing, Raman images were decomposed by the hyperspectral unmixing algorithm vertex component analysis into endmember spectra and their abundancies. Hierarchical cluster analysis distinguished endmember Raman spectra that were assigned to normal bladder, bladder cancer, necrosis, epithelium and lipid inclusions. Interestingly, Raman spectra of microplastic particles, pigments or carotenoids were detected in 13 out of 20 specimens inside tissue and near tissue margins and their identity was confirmed by spectral library surveys. Hypotheses about the origin of these foreign materials are discussed. In conclusion, our Raman workflow and data processing protocol with minimal user interference offers advantages for future clinical translation such as intraoperative tumor detection and label-free material identification in complex matrices.
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- Christoph Krafft
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Member of Leibniz Health Technologies and Member of the Leibniz Centre for Photonics in Infection Research, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Member of Leibniz Health Technologies and Member of the Leibniz Centre for Photonics in Infection Research, 07745 Jena, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Member of the Leibniz Centre for Photonics in Infection Research, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Surgical Pathology, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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Laginha RC, Martins CB, Brandão ALC, Marques J, Marques MPM, Batista de Carvalho LAE, Santos IP, Batista de Carvalho ALM. Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Effect of Pd 2Spm against Prostate Cancer through Vibrational Microspectroscopies. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24031888. [PMID: 36768221 PMCID: PMC9916163 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24031888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Regarding the development of new antineoplastic agents, with a view to assess the selective antitumoral potential which aims at causing irreversible damage to cancer cells while preserving the integrity of their healthy counterparts, it is essential to evaluate the cytotoxic effects in both healthy and malignant human cell lines. In this study, a complex with two Pd(II) centers linked by the biogenic polyamine spermine (Pd2Spm) was tested on healthy (PNT-2) and cancer (LNCaP and PC-3) prostate human cell lines, using cisplatin as a reference. To understand the mechanisms of action of both cisplatin and Pd2Spm at a molecular level, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Raman microspectroscopies were used. Principal component analysis was applied to the vibrational data, revealing the major metabolic changes caused by each drug, which were found to rely on DNA, lipids, and proteins, acting as biomarkers of drug impact. The main changes were observed between the B-DNA native conformation and either Z-DNA or A-DNA, with a higher effect on lipids having been detected in the presence of cisplatin as compared to Pd2Spm. In turn, the Pd-agent showed a more significant impact on proteins.
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- Raquel C. Laginha
- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +351-239854462
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- Molecular Physical-Chemistry R&D Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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In Situ Identification of Unknown Crystals in Acute Kidney Injury Using Raman Spectroscopy. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12142395. [PMID: 35889619 PMCID: PMC9323692 DOI: 10.3390/nano12142395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Raman spectroscopy is a well-established and powerful tool for in situ biomolecular evaluation. Type 2 crystal nephropathies are characterized by the deposition of crystalline materials in the tubular lumen, resulting in rapid onset of acute kidney injury without specific symptoms. Timely crystal identification is essential for its diagnosis, mechanism exploration and therapy, but remains challenging. This study aims to develop a Raman spectroscopy-based method to assist pathological diagnosis of type 2 crystal nephropathies. Unknown crystals in renal tissue slides from a victim suffered extensive burn injury were detected by Raman spectroscopy, and the inclusion of crystals was determined by comparing Raman data with established database. Multiple crystals were scanned to verify the reproducibility of crystal in situ. Raman data of 20 random crystals were obtained, and the distribution and uniformity of substances in crystals were investigated by Raman imaging. A mouse model was established to mimic the crystal nephropathy to verify the availability of Raman spectroscopy in frozen biopsy. All crystals on the human slides were identified to be calcium oxalate dihydrate, and the distribution and content of calcium oxalate dihydrate on a single crystal were uneven. Raman spectroscopy was further validated to be available in identification of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals in the biopsy specimens. Here, a Raman spectroscopy-based method for in situ identification of unknown crystals in both paraffin-embedded tissues and biopsy specimens was established, providing an effective and promising method to analyze unknown crystals in tissues and assist the precise pathological diagnosis in both clinical and forensic medicine.
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Stomp-Agenant M, van Dijk T, R Onur A, Grimbergen M, van Melick H, Jonges T, Bosch R, van Swol C. In vivo Raman spectroscopy for bladder cancer detection using a superficial Raman probe compared to a nonsuperficial Raman probe. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2022; 15:e202100354. [PMID: 35233990 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202100354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy is promising as a noninvasive tool for cancer diagnosis. A superficial Raman probe might improve the classification of bladder cancer, because information is gained solely from the diseased tissue and irrelevant information from deeper layers is omitted. We compared Raman measurements of a superficial to a nonsuperficial probe, in bladder cancer diagnosis. Two-hundred sixteen Raman measurements and biopsies were taken in vivo from at least one suspicious and one unsuspicious bladder location in 104 patients. A Raman classification model was constructed based on histopathology, using a principal-component fed linear-discriminant-analysis and leave-one-person-out cross-validation. The diagnostic ability measured in area under the receiver operating characteristics curve was 0.95 and 0.80, the sensitivity was 90% and 85% and the specificity was 87% and 88% for the superficial and the nonsuperficial probe, respectively. We found inflammation to be a confounder and additionally we found a gradual transition from benign to low-grade to high-grade urothelial carcinoma. Raman spectroscopy provides additional information to histopathology and the diagnostic value using a superficial probe.
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- Michelle Stomp-Agenant
- Department of Urology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Physics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Physics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Physics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Physics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Urology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Urology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Physics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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Cameron JM, Rinaldi C, Rutherford SH, Sala A, G Theakstone A, Baker MJ. Clinical Spectroscopy: Lost in Translation? APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 76:393-415. [PMID: 34041957 DOI: 10.1177/00037028211021846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This Focal Point Review paper discusses the developments of biomedical Raman and infrared spectroscopy, and the recent strive towards these technologies being regarded as reliable clinical tools. The promise of vibrational spectroscopy in the field of biomedical science, alongside the development of computational methods for spectral analysis, has driven a plethora of proof-of-concept studies which convey the potential of various spectroscopic approaches. Here we report a brief review of the literature published over the past few decades, with a focus on the current technical, clinical, and economic barriers to translation, namely the limitations of many of the early studies, and the lack of understanding of clinical pathways, health technology assessments, regulatory approval, clinical feasibility, and funding applications. The field of biomedical vibrational spectroscopy must acknowledge and overcome these hurdles in order to achieve clinical efficacy. Current prospects have been overviewed with comment on the advised future direction of spectroscopic technologies, with the aspiration that many of these innovative approaches can ultimately reach the frontier of medical diagnostics and many clinical applications.
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK
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El-Mashtoly SF, Gerwert K. Diagnostics and Therapy Assessment Using Label-Free Raman Imaging. Anal Chem 2021; 94:120-142. [PMID: 34852454 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Samir F El-Mashtoly
- Center for Protein Diagnostics, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany.,Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Center for Protein Diagnostics, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany.,Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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Korinth F, Shaik TA, Popp J, Krafft C. Assessment of shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy in highly fluorescent biological samples. Analyst 2021; 146:6760-6767. [PMID: 34704561 DOI: 10.1039/d1an01376a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy (SERDS) can be used as an instrumental baseline correction technique to retrieve Raman bands in highly fluorescent samples. Genipin (GE) cross-linked equine pericardium (EP) was used as a model system since a blue pigment is formed upon cross-linking, which results in a strong fluorescent background in the Raman spectra. EP was cross-linked with 0.25% GE solution for 0.5 h, 2 h, 4 h, 6 h, 12 h, and 24 h, and compared with corresponding untreated EP. Raman spectra were collected with three different excitation wavelengths. For the assessment of the SERDS technique, the preprocessed SERDS spectra of two excitation wavelengths (784 nm-786 nm) were compared with the mathematical baseline-corrected Raman spectra at 785 nm excitation using extended multiplicative signal correction, rubberband, the sensitive nonlinear iterative peak and polynomial fitting algorithms. Whereas each baseline correction gave poor quality spectra beyond 6 h GE crosslinking with wave-like artefacts, the SERDS technique resulted in difference spectra, that gave superior reconstructed spectra with clear collagen and resonance enhanced GE pigment bands with lower standard deviation. Key for this progress was an advanced difference optimization approach that is described here. Furthermore, the results of the SERDS technique were independent of the intensity calibration because the system transfer response was compensated by calculating the difference spectrum. We conclude that this SERDS strategy can be transferred to Raman studies on biological and non-biological samples with a strong fluorescence background at 785 nm and also shorter excitation wavelengths which benefit from more intense scattering intensities and higher quantum efficiencies of CCD detectors.
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- Florian Korinth
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Member of Leibniz Research Alliance "Health Technologies", 07745 Jena, Germany. .,Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and Member of Leibniz Research Alliance "Health Technologies", 14482 Potsdam, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Member of Leibniz Research Alliance "Health Technologies", 07745 Jena, Germany.
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Member of Leibniz Research Alliance "Health Technologies", 07745 Jena, Germany. .,Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Member of Leibniz Research Alliance "Health Technologies", 07745 Jena, Germany.
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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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Vasquez D, Knorr F, Hoffmann F, Ernst G, Marcu L, Schmitt M, Guntinas-Lichius O, Popp J, Schie IW. Multimodal Scanning Microscope Combining Optical Coherence Tomography, Raman Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy for Mesoscale Label-Free Imaging of Tissue. Anal Chem 2021; 93:11479-11487. [PMID: 34380310 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Multimodal optical imaging of tissue has significant potential to become an indispensable diagnostic tool in clinical pathology. Conventional bright-field microscopy provides contrast based on attenuation or reflectance of light, having no depth-related information and no molecular specificity. Recent developments in biomedical optics have introduced a variety of optical modalities, such as Raman spectroscopy (RS), fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of endogenous fluorophores, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and others, which provide a distinct characteristic, i.e., molecular, chemical, and morphological information, of the sample. To harvest the full analytical potential of those modalities, we have developed a novel multimodal imaging system, which allows the co-registered acquisition of OCT/FLIM/RS on a single device. The present implementation allows the investigation of biological tissues in the mesoscale range, 0.1-5 mm in a correlated manner. Due to the co-registered acquisition of the modalities, it is possible to directly compare and evaluate the corresponding information between the three modalities. Moreover, by additionally preparing and characterizing entire pathological hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides of head and neck biopsies, it is also possible to correlate the multimodal spectroscopic information to any location of the ground truth H&E information. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first development and implementation of a compact and clinically applicable multimodal scanning microscope, which combines OCT, FLIM, and RS together with the possibility for co-registering H&E information for a morpho-chemical tissue characterization and a correlation with the pathological ground truth (H&E) of the underlying signal origin directly in a clinical environment.
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- David Vasquez
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Department for Medical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences-Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, 07745 Jena, Germany
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Schie IW, Stiebing C, Popp J. Looking for a perfect match: multimodal combinations of Raman spectroscopy for biomedical applications. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2021; 26:JBO-210137VR. [PMID: 34387049 PMCID: PMC8358667 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.26.8.080601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Raman spectroscopy has shown very promising results in medical diagnostics by providing label-free and highly specific molecular information of pathological tissue ex vivo and in vivo. Nevertheless, the high specificity of Raman spectroscopy comes at a price, i.e., low acquisition rate, no direct access to depth information, and limited sampling areas. However, a similar case regarding advantages and disadvantages can also be made for other highly regarded optical modalities, such as optical coherence tomography, autofluorescence imaging and fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime microscopy, second-harmonic generation, and others. While in these modalities the acquisition speed is significantly higher, they have no or only limited molecular specificity and are only sensitive to a small group of molecules. It can be safely stated that a single modality provides only a limited view on a specific aspect of a biological specimen and cannot assess the entire complexity of a sample. To solve this issue, multimodal optical systems, which combine different optical modalities tailored to a particular need, become more and more common in translational research and will be indispensable diagnostic tools in clinical pathology in the near future. These systems can assess different and partially complementary aspects of a sample and provide a distinct set of independent biomarkers. Here, we want to give an overview on the development of multimodal systems that use RS in combination with other optical modalities to improve the diagnostic performance.
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- Iwan W. Schie
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
- University of Applied Sciences—Jena, Department for Medical Engineering and Biotechnology, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Jena, Germany
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Grüne B, Rother J, Waldbillig F, Chellappan G, Meessen S, Grychtol B, Deliolanis NC, Bolenz C, Kriegmair MC. Ex vivo validation of a real-time multispectral endoscopic system for the detection and biopsy of bladder tumors. Transl Androl Urol 2021; 10:2373-2383. [PMID: 34295724 PMCID: PMC8261439 DOI: 10.21037/tau-20-1372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Real-time multispectral imaging (rMSI) simultaneously provides white light (WL), photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) images, and a real-time fusion of both. It may improve the detection of bladder tumors. However, rMSI has not been used for transurethral biopsy or resection so far. The aim of this ex vivo study was to test the feasibility of bladder tumor biopsies using the rMSI system and compare it to a conventional endoscopic system. Methods A 3D printed rigid bladder phantom was equipped with small and flat (5 mm × 1 mm) mock-bladder-tumors made of silicone and fluorescent Qdots655 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany). Urologists (n=15) were asked to perform a rigid cystoscopy and biopsy of all identified lesions (n=6) using a prototype rMSI system and the Image1 S system (Karl Storz, Tuttlingen). Success rate and completion time were measured. The image quality of both systems and the usability of the rMSI system according to the system usability scale (SUS) were evaluated with a task-specific questionnaire. Results Tumor detection and biopsy rate were 100% (90/90) for the rMSI system and 98.9% (89/90) for the Image1 S system (P=0.3). The biopsy completion time did not differ significantly between the systems (P=0.48). Differentiation between healthy and suspect mucosa with the rMSI system was rated as comparable to the Image1 S system by 53% of surgeons and as better by 33% of the surgeons. The median SUS score for the rMSI system was 87.5%. Conclusions Accurate transurethral biopsies are feasible with the rMSI system. Furthermore, the rMSI system has an excellent SUS. This study paves the way to the first in-human transurethral resections of bladder tumors (TUR-B) using rMSI technology.
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- Britta Grüne
- Department of Urology and Uro-Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Urology and Uro-Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.,Fraunhofer IPA - Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology (PAMB), Mannheim, Germany
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- Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.,Fraunhofer IPA - Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology (PAMB), Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Urology and Uro-Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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Schie IW, Placzek F, Knorr F, Cordero E, Wurster LM, Hermann GG, Mogensen K, Hasselager T, Drexler W, Popp J, Leitgeb RA. Morpho-molecular signal correlation between optical coherence tomography and Raman spectroscopy for superior image interpretation and clinical diagnosis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:9951. [PMID: 33976274 PMCID: PMC8113482 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89188-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The combination of manifold optical imaging modalities resulting in multimodal optical systems allows to discover a larger number of biomarkers than using a single modality. The goal of multimodal imaging systems is to increase the diagnostic performance through the combination of complementary modalities, e.g. optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy (RS). The physical signal origins of OCT and RS are distinctly different, i.e. in OCT it is elastic back scattering of photons, due to a change in refractive index, while in RS it is the inelastic scattering between photons and molecules. Despite those diverse characteristics both modalities are also linked via scattering properties and molecular composition of tissue. Here, we investigate for the first time the relation of co-registered OCT and RS signals of human bladder tissue, to demonstrate that the signals of these complementary modalities are inherently intertwined, enabling a direct but more importantly improved interpretation and better understanding of the other modality. This work demonstrates that the benefit for using two complementary imaging approaches is, not only the increased diagnostic value, but the increased information and better understanding of the signal origins of both modalities. This evaluation confirms the advantages for using multimodal imaging systems and also paves the way for significant further improved understanding and clinically interpretation of both modalities in the future.
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- Iwan W Schie
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, Jena, 07745, Germany.
- Department of Medical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences-Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20 / 4L, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20 / 4L, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Urology, Copenhagen University, Herlev/Gentofte Hospital, Borgmester Ib Juuls Vej 23A, 2730, Herlev/Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Urology, Copenhagen University, Herlev/Gentofte Hospital, Borgmester Ib Juuls Vej 23A, 2730, Herlev/Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Copenhagen University, Herlev/Gentofte Hospital, Borgmester Ib Juuls Vej 23A, 2730, Herlev/Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20 / 4L, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20 / 4L, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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Resolving complex phenotypes with Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2020; 66:277-282. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Wide Field Spectral Imaging with Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy Using the Nod and Shuffle Technique. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20236723. [PMID: 33255459 PMCID: PMC7727830 DOI: 10.3390/s20236723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Wide field Raman imaging using the integral field spectroscopy approach was used as a fast, one shot imaging method for the simultaneous collection of all spectra composing a Raman image. For the suppression of autofluorescence and background signals such as room light, shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy (SERDS) was applied to remove background artifacts in Raman spectra. To reduce acquisition times in wide field SERDS imaging, we adapted the nod and shuffle technique from astrophysics and implemented it into a wide field SERDS imaging setup. In our adapted version, the nod corresponds to the change in excitation wavelength, whereas the shuffle corresponds to the shifting of charges up and down on a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) chip synchronous to the change in excitation wavelength. We coupled this improved wide field SERDS imaging setup to diode lasers with 784.4/785.5 and 457.7/458.9 nm excitation and applied it to samples such as paracetamol and aspirin tablets, polystyrene and polymethyl methacrylate beads, as well as pork meat using multiple accumulations with acquisition times in the range of 50 to 200 ms. The results tackle two main challenges of SERDS imaging: gradual photobleaching changes the autofluorescence background, and multiple readouts of CCD detector prolong the acquisition time.
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Beji S, Wrist Lam G, Østergren PB, Toxvaerd A, Sønksen J, Fode M. Diagnostic value of probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy versus conventional endoscopic biopsies of non-muscle invasive bladder tumors: a pilot study. Scand J Urol 2020; 55:36-40. [PMID: 33153363 DOI: 10.1080/21681805.2020.1841285] [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] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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PURPOSE The standard procedure for diagnostics and follow-up for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is cystoscopy in the outpatient clinic. Suspicious lesions are biopsied for histopathological assessment. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the ability of Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) to rule out High Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (HGUC) to select patients for in-office fulguration. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a prospective non-randomized, single surgeon study. Intraoperative CLE was performed independently by the surgeon and a blinded on-site uropathologist. Following the procedure, a CLE evaluation was performed by another blinded urologist. Lesions were classified as normal/inflammatory, Low Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (LGUC) or HGUC. With the histological evaluations as the gold standard we calculated sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV for HGUC and the accuracy for each CLE assessor. The primary outcome was the NPV for HGUC for the surgeon. RESULTS Twelve patients with a total of 34 lesions were included. Six lesions were flat and 28 were exophytic. On histopathology, 25 lesions were classified as normal/inflammatory or LGUC, while nine were classified as HGUC. For the surgeon, the uropathologist and the second urologist, the sensitivity was 44%, 78% and 22%, respectively. Specificities for the three observers were 84%, 68% and 96%. This corresponded to PPVs for HGUC of 50%, 47% and 67% and NPV for HGUC of 81%, 89% and 77%. CONCLUSIONS In our hands the NPV of CLE is not high enough for it to be considered an alternative to histopathological assessment of bladder lesions.
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- Sami Beji
- Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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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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Korinth F, Mondol AS, Stiebing C, Schie IW, Krafft C, Popp J. New methodology to process shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy data: a case study of pollen classification. Sci Rep 2020; 10:11215. [PMID: 32641779 PMCID: PMC7343813 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67897-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy (SERDS) is a background correction method for Raman spectroscopy. Here, the difference spectra were directly used as input for SERDS-based classification after an optimization procedure to correct for photobleaching of the autofluorescence. Further processing included a principal component analysis to compensate for the reduced signal to noise ratio of the difference spectra and subsequent classification by linear discriminant analysis. As a case study 6,028 Raman spectra of single pollen originating from plants of eight different genera and four different growth habits were automatically recorded at excitation wavelengths 784 and 786 nm using a high-throughput screening Raman system. Different pollen were distinguished according to their growth habit, i.e. tree versus non-tree with an accuracy of 95.9%. Furthermore, all pollen were separated according to their genus, providing also insight into similarities based on their families. Classification results were compared using spectra reconstructed from the differences and raw spectra after state-of-art baseline correction as input. Similar sensitivities, specificities, accuracies and precisions were found for all spectra with moderately background. Advantages of SERDS are expected in scenarios where Raman spectra are affected by variations due to detector etaloning, ambient light, and high background.
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- F Korinth
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany.,Department of Medical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743, Jena, Germany
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