Polarized images of the cervix

Blandine Laude-Boulesteix; Andre Nazac; Gilles Le Naour; Catherine Genestie; Laurent Schwartz; Bernard Drevillon; Antonello De Martino

doi:10.1117/12.529011

13 July 2004 Polarized images of the cervix

Blandine Laude-Boulesteix, Andre Nazac, Gilles Le Naour, Catherine Genestie, Laurent Schwartz, Bernard Drevillon, Antonello De Martino

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Proceedings Volume 5312, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems XIV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.529011
Event: Biomedical Optics 2004, 2004, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We present a first evaluation of the interest of the degree of polarization (DOP) imaging technique for early detection of cervical dysplasia. A set of ten ex vivo samples of cervix have been examined, just after surgical extraction, with an DOP imaging system comprising two linear polarizers, a liquid crystal based polarization rotator, and fast CCD camera. Routine histological examination revealed that for all samples but one, dysplasia was present only in the inner part of the cervix, which cannot be imaged with our current setup. On the other hand, the only sample exhibiting dysplasia in its outer region did show nonzero DOP with, however, a somewhat loose correlation between the DOP and the histological mapping of the dysplasia.

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Blandine Laude-Boulesteix, Andre Nazac, Gilles Le Naour, Catherine Genestie, Laurent Schwartz, Bernard Drevillon, and Antonello De Martino "Polarized images of the cervix", Proc. SPIE 5312, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems XIV, (13 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.529011

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