Correlation of morphological and molecular parameters for colon cancer

Shuai Yuan; Celeste A Roney; Qian Li; James Jiang; Alex Cable; Ronald M. Summers; Yu Chen

doi:10.1117/12.842599

22 February 2010 Correlation of morphological and molecular parameters for colon cancer

Shuai Yuan, Celeste A Roney, Qian Li, James Jiang, Alex Cable, Ronald M. Summers, Yu Chen

Proceedings Volume 7555, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems VIII; 75551F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842599
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. There is great interest in studying the relationship among microstructures and molecular processes of colorectal cancer during its progression at early stages. In this study, we use our multi-modality optical system that could obtain co-registered optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescence molecular imaging (FMI) images simultaneously to study CRC. The overexpressed carbohydrate α-L-fucose on the surfaces of polyps facilitates the bond of adenomatous polyps with UEA-1 and is used as biomarker. Tissue scattering coefficient derived from OCT axial scan is used as quantitative value of structural information. Both structural images from OCT and molecular images show spatial heterogeneity of tumors. Correlations between those values are analyzed and demonstrate that scattering coefficients are positively correlated with FMI signals in conjugated. In UEA-1 conjugated samples (8 polyps and 8 control regions), the correlation coefficient is ranged from 0.45 to 0.99. These findings indicate that the microstructure of polyps is changed gradually during cancer progression and the change is well correlated with certain molecular process. Our study demonstrated that multi-parametric imaging is able to simultaneously detect morphology and molecular information and it can enable spatially and temporally correlated studies of structure-function relationships during tumor progression.

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Shuai Yuan, Celeste A Roney, Qian Li, James Jiang, Alex Cable, Ronald M. Summers, and Yu Chen "Correlation of morphological and molecular parameters for colon cancer", Proc. SPIE 7555, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems VIII, 75551F (22 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842599

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