PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sabina Beg
AU  - Ana Wilson
AU  - Krish Ragunath
TI  - The use of optical imaging techniques in the gastrointestinal tract
AID  - 10.1136/flgastro-2015-100563
DP  - 2016 Jul 01
TA  - Frontline Gastroenterology
PG  - 207--215
VI  - 7
IP  - 3
4099  - http://fg.bmj.com/content/7/3/207.short
4100  - http://fg.bmj.com/content/7/3/207.full
SO  - Frontline Gastroenterol2016 Jul 01; 7
AB  - With significant advances in the management of gastrointestinal disease there has been a move from diagnosing advanced pathology, to detecting early lesions that are potentially amenable to curative endoscopic treatment. This has required an improvement in diagnostics, with a focus on identifying and characterising subtle mucosal changes. There is great interest in the use of optical technologies to predict histology and enable the formulation of a real-time in vivo diagnosis, a so-called ‘optical biopsy’. The aim of this review is to explore the evidence for the use of the current commercially available imaging techniques in the gastrointestinal tract.