Volume 5, Issue 7 pp. 544-549
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Quantitative discrimination of NPC cell lines using optical coherence tomography

Jianghua Li

Jianghua Li

School for Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Changshui Chen

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Changshui Chen

School for Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Bingling Chen

Bingling Chen

School for Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Zhiyuan Shen

Zhiyuan Shen

Laboratory of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China

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Yonghong He

Yonghong He

Laboratory of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China

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Yunfei Xia

Yunfei Xia

Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510060, China

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Songhao Liu

Songhao Liu

School for Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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First published: 06 February 2012
Citations: 2

Abstract

We tried to explore the intrinsic differences in the optical properties of the four representative NPC cell lines on the models of radiobiology and metastasis by OCT. The scattering coefficients and anisotropies were extracted by fitting the average a-scan attenuation curves based on the multiple scatter effect. The values of scattering coefficients and anisotropy factors were 5.21 ± 0.11, 5.30 ± 0.09, 5.92 ± 0.21, 6.97 ± 0.22, and 0.892 ± 0.009, 0.886 ± 0.006, 0.884 ± 0.009, 0.86 ± 0.01 for CNE1, CNE2, 5-8F and 6-10B pellets (p < 0.05, P = 0.07 for CNE1 and CNE2), respectively. The results showed that the radiobiology and metastasis cell's model could be distinguished obviously; which implied that the corresponding types of NPC tissue might be potentially differentiated by OCT. (© 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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