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Jan. 17 - Successful OCT Imaging of Oral Cancer Tissue Announced in UK

Optical imaging company Michelson Diagnostics Ltd (MDL) announced successful initial results from clinical testing, on oral cancer tissue, of its groundbreaking OCT imaging technology by partner University College Hospital, London (UCH).

The tests, performed by UCH scientists on cancerous and suspected cancerous human oral issue, were designed to establish the potential for MDL's optical imaging technology to revolutionize head and neck cancer diagnosis and treatment. The tests involved comparing images taken by the MDL scanner of the tissue samples, with histopathology images analyzed by trained pathologists.

In the tests, 25 oral tissue samples were collected from 14 patients of the UCH National Medical Laser Centre. The samples were scanned with the MDL OCT imaging system and then prepared for analysis.

Mr Waseem Jerjes said "the histopathology results showed that it is possible to identify surface structures such as keratin and epithelial layers, the epidermal /dermal junction and areas of cellular crowding as well as any pathological changes that occurs at that level; this is very exciting, this method seems to hold great promises for early in vivo tumour diagnosis."

The company's highly innovative optical probe technology offers the best available sub-surface OCT images for research applications in cancer surgery guidance, surveillance and diagnosis.

Source: Michelson Diagnostics Ltd

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