Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)

In recent years, various optical microscopy techniques have been developed for nondestructivex000D
imaging of biological tissues, including optical coherence tomography, reflectancemodex000D
confocal microscopy, fluorescence-mode confocal microscopy, and multiphotonx000D
excitation microscopy. Each imaging modality has its own advantages and disadvantages.x000D
Previously, confocal microscopy has shown progress in skin cancer imaging andx000D
demonstrated potential in other cancer diagnosis. However, moving confocal imagingx000D
modalities into endoscopy applications is challenging in that miniaturized catheter probesx000D
have to be developed to pass through the endoscope instrument channel that is a fewx000D
millimeter diameter in size. In this research, we aim to use MEMES (Microelectromechanicalx000D
Systems) technology to make a miniature confocal optical probe that will produce histologylikex000D
cross sectional images and 3D images of tissue in vivo for GI (gastrointestinal) cancerx000D
diagnosis.