Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Spectroscopy as techniques for identification of lung cancers

treatment planning that follows thereafter. However, a significant number of transthoracic biopsies to analyse lung lesions give indeterminate results. A group working at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital in the Netherlands are tackling this problem with the use of biophotonic techniques [1] – namely Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) and Fluorescence Spectroscopy (FS) – to assess how the accuracy of the diagnostic procedure may be improved. Spliethoff et al. [1,2] reporting in the journal Lung Cancer outline their design and testing of prototype instrumentation for the addition of these photonic based modalities to the standard histopathology technique, and demonstrate their benefit to the final diagnosis. Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Spectroscopy as techniques for identification of lung cancers