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Types of Optical Coherence Tomography for Cancer Diagnosis: A Systematic Review
Nirmal Mazumder
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Department of Biophysics, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
Paper #3440 received 28 Jun 2021; revised manuscript received 01 Dec 2021; accepted for publication 21 Dec 2021; published online 4 Feb 2022.
DOI: 10.18287/JBPE22.08.010201
Abstract
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging imaging technique that produces high contrast images that help distinguish different tissue layers by detecting the back-reflected near-infrared light. The technique is used to diagnose various diseases due to high contrast, three-dimensional imaging capability with high resolution, and a fast acquisition speed. The meta-analysis study was performed by the systematic review of literature in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Embase, and Cochrane Library using search terms relevant to “OCT”, "Carcinoma", and “cancers”. The various applications of different types of OCT are discussed in the detection and diagnosis of various cancers like colorectal cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer.
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