Optically measured microvascular blood flow contrast of malignant breast tumors.

Microvascular blood flow contrast is an important hemodynamic and metabolic parameter with potential to enhance in vivo breast cancer detection and therapy monitoring. Here we report on non-invasive line-scan measurements of malignant breast tumors with a hand-held optical probe in the remission geo...

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Main Authors: Regine Choe, Mary E Putt, Peter M Carlile, Turgut Durduran, Joseph M Giammarco, David R Busch, Ki Won Jung, Brian J Czerniecki, Julia Tchou, Michael D Feldman, Carolyn Mies, Mark A Rosen, Mitchell D Schnall, Angela DeMichele, Arjun G Yodh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072684?pdf=render