Now a team of researchers from Central South University in China have demonstrated that a technique known
as photoacoustic imaging, which is already under investigation for detecting skin or breast cancers and for monitoring therapy, also has the potential to be a new, faster, cheaper and non-invasive method to detect, diagnose and stage cervical cancer with high accuracy.
For advanced imaging applications such
as optical fluorescence tomography and
photoacoustic (or optoacoustic) tomography the effective diagnostic and therapeutic window is in the 650 — 900 nm range [6].