Monitoring breast tumor response to chemotherapy with broadband near-infrared tissue spectroscopy
- 1 January 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
- p. TuB5
Abstract
NIR tissue spectroscopy was used to monitor a breast cancer patient during three cycles of presurgical chemotherapy. Lesion values of lipid, water, deoxygenated and oxygenated hemoglobin changed significantly within the first week, and continued to change throughout therapy.Keywords
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