Human cervical carcinoma detection and glucose monitoring in blood micro vasculatures with swept source OCT
H. Ullah+*, E. Ahmed*, M. Ikram+
+Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 45650 Islamabad, Pakistan
*Department of Physics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
Abstract
We report a pilot method i.e. speckle variance (SV) and structured optical coherence tomography to visualize normal and malignant blood microvasculature in three and two dimensions and to monitor the glucose levels in blood by analyzing the Brownian motion of the red blood cells. The technique was applied on nude live mouse's skin and the obtained images depict the enhanced intravasculature network forum up to the depth of mm with axial resolution of m. Microscopic images have also been obtained for both types of blood vessels to observe the tumor spatially. Our SV-OCT methodologies and results give satisfactory techniques in real time imaging and can potentially be applied during therapeutical techniques such as photodynamic therapy as well as to quantify the higher glucose levels injected intravenously to animal by determining the translation diffusion coefficient.