Optical Coherence Tomography Scanning Arm for Laryngoscopy
University of California Irvine 鈥毭劽� Department of Otolaryngology
2003鈥�04
Currently laryngeal cancer can only be diagnosed with biopsies which are invasive, permanently damaging, and can miss cancerous tissue.卢鈥� Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique that non-invasively images several millimeters into tissue to seek structural abnormalities, which can indicate cancer.卢鈥� We will design and construct an OCT device for attachments to a laryngoscope that will image two-dimensional cross-sections in the larynx, for the purpose of diagnosing laryngeal cancer in its early stages.
Advisor(s): Richard Campbell Haskell, Elizabeth Orwin, and Robert P. Wolf.
Team: Seneca S. Harberger ’05, River L. [Hutchison] Clemens ’04, Rachel J. [Lovec] Currie ’04, Nikhil Gheewala ’04, and Tonya Icenogle ’04.