@inbook{275506c4adbd4c099b43100658963fb8,
title = "Monitoring radiofrequency ablation of biological tissue using broadband time-resolved diffuse optical spectroscopy",
abstract = "Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is minimally invasive thermotherapy, where a heating source is used to target and kill malignant cells in a tissue. While RFA has tremendous potential in the field of oncology, there is also a need for reliable real-time monitoring of this procedure to avoid over or under treatment. In this work, we investigate the use of time-resolved diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) to continuously track the change in optical properties during RFA to monitor the process of ablation. The time evolution of the spectra of the optical properties of the tissue undergoing treatment gives deep insights into the structural and constitutional changes occurring during the RFA treatment.",
keywords = "Absorption, Diffuse optical spectroscopy, Light scattering, Liver, Monitoring, Non-invasive, Radio frequency ablation",
author = "Pranav Lanka and Francis, \{K. J.\} and Hindrik Kruit and \{Venkata Sekar\}, \{Sanathana Konugolu\} and Andrea Farina and Rinaldo Cubeddu and Srirang Manohar and Antonio Pifferi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} SPIE-OSA 2019; European Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO\_2019 ; Conference date: 23-06-2019 Through 25-06-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1117/12.2526964",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510628397",
series = "Optics InfoBase Conference Papers",
publisher = "Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)",
editor = "Hamid Dehghani and Heidrun Wabnitz",
booktitle = "European Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO\_2019",
address = "United States",
}