Soft tissue differentiation by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

Azhar Zam, Florian Stelzle, Emeka Nkenke, Katja Tangermann-Gerk, Michael Schmidt, Werner Adler, Alexandre Douplik

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Abstract

Laser surgery gives the possibility to work remotely which leads to high precision, little trauma and high level sterility. However these advantages are coming with the lack of haptic feedback during the laser ablation of tissue. Therefore additional means are required to control tissue-specific ablation during laser surgery supporting the surgeon regardless of experience and skills. Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy provides a straightforward and simple approach for optical tissue differentiation. We measured diffuse reflectance from four various tissue types ex vivo. We applied Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to differentiate the four tissue types and computed the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Special emphasis was taken on the identification of nerve as the most crucial tissue for maxillofacial surgery. The results show a promise for differentiating soft tissues as guidance for tissue-specific laser surgery by means of the diffuse reflectance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2009
PublisherOptical Society of America
ISBN (Print)9780819476432
StatePublished - 2009
EventEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2009 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Jun 14 2009Jun 18 2009

Publication series

NameOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
ISSN (Electronic)2162-2701

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2009
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period6/14/096/18/09

Keywords

  • Diffuse reflectance
  • Feedback system
  • Laser surgery
  • Linear discriminant analysis
  • Soft tissue
  • Tissue differentiation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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