Applications of Ex Vivo Microscopy in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1488
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ex vivo microscopy is a set of emerging microscopy methods intended for rapid, high-resolution imaging of excised tissue samples. These modalities have the ability to achieve depth-resolved images of fresh, fixed, and/or optically cleared tissues at microscopic resolution in clinically relevant timeframes. However, the choice of an optimal imaging modality and contrast mechanism is heavily influenced by the particular application to be addressed. This Special Issue aims to highlight the wide diversity in modalities and approaches in the field through their applications in cancer detection and diagnosis. Modalities may include, but are not limited to, optical sectioning microscopies (confocal, multiphoton, structured illumination, and light sheet), optical coherence tomography, photoacoustic microscopy, microscopy with UV excitation, vibrational microscopy., etc. Applications may include, but are not limited to, rapid on-site evaluation of cancer biopsy, surgical tumor margin assessment, primary cancer diagnosis, and rapid 2D or 3D imaging of intact samples.
Dr. J. Quincy Brown
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microscopy
- cancer
- optical sectioning
- diagnosis
- detection
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