@inproceedings{6231485a2b454f42aff86cf43b3a2409,
title = "A novel excitation-emission wavelength model to facilitate the diagnosis of urinary bladder diseases",
abstract = "Diseases of urinary bladder are a common healthcare problem world over. Diagnostic precision and predicting response to treatment are major issues. This study aims to create an optical cross-sectionional model of a bladder, capable of visually representing the passage of photons through the tissue layers. The absorption, transmission and reflectance data, along with the derived transmission coefficients (of scattering and absorption) were obtained from literature analysis and were used in the creation of a {"}generic{"} cross-section optical property model simulating the passage of thousands of photons through the tissue at different wavelengths. Fluorescence spectra of diagnostically relevant biomarkers excited by the UV and blue wavelengths were modelled on the basis of the Monte-Carlo method. Further to this, fluorescence data gathered by the {"}LAKK-M{"} system from pig bladders was applied to the model for a specific representation of the photon passage through the tissues. The ultimate goal of this study is to employ this model to simulate the effects of different laser wavelength and energy inputs to bladder tissue and to determine the effectiveness of potential photonics based devices for the diagnosis of bladder pathologies. The model will aid in observing differences between healthy and pathological bladder tissues registered by photonics based devices.",
keywords = "Bladder cancer, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Modelling, Monte Carlo simulation, Non-invasive diagnostics",
author = "Ilya Rafailov and Scott Palmer and Karina Litvinova and Victor Dremin and Andrey Dunaev and Ghulam Nabi",
year = "2015",
month = feb,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1117/12.2077554",
language = "English",
volume = "9303",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Kang, {Hyun Wook} and Ilgner, {Justus F.} and Skala, {Melissa C.} and Laura Marcu and Haishan Zeng and Dewhirst, {Mark W.} and Gregory, {Kenton W.} and Andreas Mandelis and Bernard Choi and Wong, {Brian Jet-Fei} and Claus-Peter Richter and Tearney, {Guillermo J.} and Alfred Nuttal and Nikiforos Kollias",
booktitle = "Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XI",
address = "United States",
note = "Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XI ; Conference date: 07-02-2015 Through 08-02-2015",
}