Potential for improved thyroid cancer screening aided by multi-modal clinical ultrasound and hybrid diffuse optics (LUCA platform)

Pablo Fernandez Esteberena*, G. Aranda, M. Buttafava, D. Contini, L. Cortese, A. Dalla Mora, H. Dehghani, S. De Fraguier, F. Hanzu, G. Lo Presti, M. Mora Porta, A. Nguyen-Dihn, A. Pifferi, M. Renna, B. Rosinski, S. Ruiz Janer, M. Squarcia, P. Taroni, A. Tosi, U. M. WeigelS. Wojtkiewicz, M. Zanoletti, T. Durduran

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

LUCA platform combines clinical ultrasound with near-infrared time-domain and correlation spectroscopies to improve thyroid cancer screening. We characterized its precision and classified thyroid nodules in a clinical campaign on 45 subjects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDiffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging VIII
EditorsDavide Contini, Yoko Hoshi, Thomas D. O'Sullivan
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510647060
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Dec 2021
EventDiffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging VIII 2021 - Virtual, Online, Germany
Duration: 20 Jun 202124 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume11920
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceDiffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging VIII 2021
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/06/2124/06/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 688303 (LUCA-project) as an initiative of the Photonics Public Private Partnership (www.photonics21.org). The project received further financial support from Fundació CELLEX Barcelona, the “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0522), the Obra social “la Caixa” Foundation (LlumMedBcn), AGAUR-Generalitat (2014SGR-1555), and LASERLAB-EUROPE IV.

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomaterials
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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