The team created a «smart» bandage that
detects skin tissue damage before it's visible.
Not exact matches
Alfano states «Resonant Raman using the laser pointer 532 nm has become an e?cient tool for investigating molecular components in
tissues and cells, providing more detailed information and a way to
detect diseases like
skin cancer, brain cancer, or atherosclerosis — in mere seconds.»
«The cornea is the most densely innervated
tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for
detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the
skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..
In ultrasound imaging, the sound is transmitted into the body, where it bounces off of various
tissues in a variety of ways and produces waves that can also be
detected on the
skin.
The technique is currently being tested in a number of clinical applications, including imaging breast tumors,
detecting skin cancer, and tracking blood oxygenation in
tissues.
However, from outside a patient's body, surgeons can
detect only the tracer, so they must probe surgically under
skin and other
tissues to find dyed nodes.
Alfano states «Resonant Raman using the laser pointer 532 nm has become an efficient tool for investigating molecular components in
tissues and cells, providing more detailed information and a way to
detect diseases like
skin cancer, brain cancer, or atherosclerosis — in mere seconds.»
The analysis of 278 transposition - induced prostate, breast and
skin tumors
detected tissue - specific and shared data sets of known and candidate genes involved in cancer.
p53 expression is usually not
detected in dividing
tissues such as
skin, kidney, lung, stomach, or breast [11,12].