What is it about?
In this work, the way in which tissues cool down after mild heating is used as a means for diagnosing tumors faster - in 6 days after tumour implantation - than the current ocular inspection standard, which takes 11 days for a reliable detection. This has been demonstrated in vivo using melanoma tumour models.
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Why is it important?
This work proposes a tumour detection method based only in temperature measurements, with simple instrumentation, capable of halving the detection time typically associated to ocular inspection.
Perspectives
This method can be also used to monitor in real time cancer thermal therapies like hyperthermia.
Dr Daniel Ortega
Universidad de Cadiz
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This page is a summary of: In Vivo Early Tumor Detection and Diagnosis by Infrared Luminescence Transient Nanothermometry, Advanced Functional Materials, September 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201803924.
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