This article is part of the supplement: 1st Scientific Meeting of the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society
Oral presentation
The clinical application of elastic scattering spectroscopy in the head and neck
Head & Neck Oncology 2009, 1(Suppl 1):O2 doi:10.1186/1758-3284-1-S1-O2
Published: 28 July 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Optical diagnostics have proved to be a reliable resource that can be used to give an instant diagnosis of soft and, more recently, hard tissue diseases. In the field of head and neck malignancy, most of the experimental spectroscopy work has been performed using fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, elastic scattering spectroscopy, micro-endoscopy and optical coherence tomography.