Probing brain cancer by fiber optic FTIR Spectroscopy

摘要

The use of several silver halide and chalcogenide infrared transmitting fibers in the detection of cancer is investigated. As a test sample for all types of fibers we used a thin section of an entire rat brain with glioblastoma. Moving the sample with an XY stage maps across the whole tissue section with more than 200 spectra were recorded. Data evaluation was performed using Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The silver halide fibers have provided excellent results. The tumor was clearly differentiable from the normal tissue. It wasn't possible to identify the tumor region using chalcogenide fibers because the fiber has a very low transmittance in the important fingerprint region.