RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The use of optical imaging techniques in the gastrointestinal tract
JF Frontline Gastroenterology
JO Frontline Gastroenterol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 207
OP 215
DO 10.1136/flgastro-2015-100563
VO 7
IS 3
A1 Sabina Beg
A1 Ana Wilson
A1 Krish Ragunath
YR 2016
UL http://fg.bmj.com/content/7/3/207.abstract
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.