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▣ 주   제: Miniature Optical Endoscopes for Early-Stage Can Detection

▣ 연   사:Jennifer Barton 교수

▣ 소   속: University of Arizona

▣ 일   시: 2024. 7. 12.(Fri) 10:00

▣ 장   소: 제2공학관 B201호

▣ 초   청: 현재상 교수

▣ 초   록

With multiple mechanisms of contrast, high sensitivity, high resolution, and the possibility to create miniature, inexpensive devices, light-based techniques have tremendous potential to positively impact cancer detection and survival. Many organs of the body can be reached in a minimally-invasive fashion with small flexible endoscopes. Some organs, such as the fallopian tubes and ovaries, require extremely miniature (sub-mm) and flexible endoscopes to avoid tissue cutting. Additionally, some modalities, such as side-viewing optical coherence tomography, are naturally suited to miniature endoscopes, whereas others like forward-viewing reflectance or fluorescence imaging, may require performance tradeoffs. The development of small, robust and fiber-delivered multiphoton microscopy sources solves one roadblock for endoscopic implementation for this ultrahigh resolution modality, yet the need for high numerical aperture optics and mitigation of motion artifacts remains a challenge. In this talk, I will discuss our recent advancements in miniature endoscope design for multimodality optical early detection of colon and ovarian cancer.