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26 February 2015 A novel excitation-emission wavelength model to facilitate the diagnosis of urinary bladder diseases
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Abstract
Diseases of urinary bladder are a common healthcare problem world over. Diagnostic precision and predicting response to treatment are major issues. This study aims to create an optical cross-sectionional model of a bladder, capable of visually representing the passage of photons through the tissue layers. The absorption, transmission and reflectance data, along with the derived transmission coefficients (of scattering and absorption) were obtained from literature analysis and were used in the creation of a “generic” cross-section optical property model simulating the passage of thousands of photons through the tissue at different wavelengths. Fluorescence spectra of diagnostically relevant biomarkers excited by the UV and blue wavelengths were modelled on the basis of the Monte-Carlo method. Further to this, fluorescence data gathered by the “LAKK-M” system from pig bladders was applied to the model for a specific representation of the photon passage through the tissues. The ultimate goal of this study is to employ this model to simulate the effects of different laser wavelength and energy inputs to bladder tissue and to determine the effectiveness of potential photonics based devices for the diagnosis of bladder pathologies. The model will aid in observing differences between healthy and pathological bladder tissues registered by photonics based devices.
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Ilya Rafailov, Scott Palmer, Karina Litvinova, Victor Dremin, Andrey V. Dunaev, and Ghulam Nabi "A novel excitation-emission wavelength model to facilitate the diagnosis of urinary bladder diseases", Proc. SPIE 9303, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XI, 93030W (26 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077554
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KEYWORDS
Bladder

Tissue optics

Tissues

Absorption

Scattering

3D modeling

Luminescence

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