0278-6648/04/$20.00 © 2004 IEEE IEEE POTENTIALS Optical technologies, such as reflectance and fluorescence microscopy, may help detect and diagnose cancers that originate in the epithelium. The epithelium is the layer of tissue that is exposed to the environment and lines the body’s cavities. Cancers that originate in the epithelium include cervical, oral, colon, lung, stomach, bladder and skin...
