Microimaging FTIR of head and neck tumors. IV

✍ Scribed by Carla Conti; Paolo Ferraris; Maria Garavaglia; Elisabetta Giorgini; Corrado Rubini; Simona Sabbatini; Giorgio Tosi

• Book ID: 102889339
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 561 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1059-910X
• DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20644

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

On continuing our studies on head and neck neoplasia, specimens from salivary gland tumors have been explored by using infrared microimaging spectroscopy to discern healthy from neoplastic tissues. Samples with Warthin tumor, epithelial displasia, marginal B‐cell lymphoma, low‐grade adenocarcinoma, and adenoid cystic carcinoma pathologies have been investigated by using conventional light sources. Changes were monitored at the molecular level, probing spectral markers such as Amide I and II, phosphate, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates vibrational modes. In all cases, supervised and unsupervised spectral analyses resulted in satisfactory agreement with histopathological findings. Microsc. Res. Tech., 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.