title: Stromal optical properties: differentiating normal and cancerous stroma.
abstract: This work reports on the measurement of optical properties from nine normal and cancerous human esophageal stroma pairs using reflectance-based confocal microscopy. It was found that the scattering coefficient of cancerous stroma is significantly lower than that of normal stroma. The results suggest that the decreased scattering in cancerous stroma may provide a possible indicator for differentiating normal and cancerous stroma.
authors: Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics Technology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Photonics Technology, Key Laboratory of OptoElectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.
authors: Shuangmu
authors: S
authors: Zhuo
authors: Jianxin
authors: J
authors: Chen
authors: Shusen
authors: S
authors: Xie
authors: Liqin
authors: L
authors: Zheng
authors: Xiaoqin
authors: X
authors: Zhu
authors: Xingshan
authors: X
authors: Jiang
mesh_terms: D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000379:methods*; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D012542:Scattering, Radiation