title: Recent Advances in Image-enhanced Endoscopy.
abstract: The desire to better recognized such malignancies, which may be difficult to distinguish from inflammation or trauma, has accelerated the development of endoscopy with new optical technologies. Narrow-band imaging is a novel endoscopic technique that may enhance the accuracy of diagnosis using narrow-bandwidth filters in a red-green-blue sequential illumination system. Autofluorescence imaging is based on the detection of natural tissue fluorescence emitted by endogenous molecules. I-scan technology using a digital filter that modifies normal images through software functions, is the newly developed image-enhanced endoscopic technology from PENTAX. Flexible spectral imaging color enhancement enhances the visualization of mucosal structure and microcirculation by the selection of spectral transmittance with a dedicated wavelength. Confocal laser endomicroscopy images were collected with an argon beam with a scanning depth of 0 (epithelium) to 250 µm (lamina propria) and analyzed using the reflected light.
authors: Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Won Young
authors: WY
authors: Cho
authors: Jae Young
authors: JY
authors: Jang
authors: Don Haeng
authors: DH
authors: Lee