{"id":4908,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2003\/01\/01\/optical-coherence-tomography-scanning-arm-for-laryngoscopy\/"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"optical-coherence-tomography-scanning-arm-for-laryngoscopy","status":"publish","type":"physics_clinic","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/clinic\/projects\/optical-coherence-tomography-scanning-arm-for-laryngoscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical Coherence Tomography Scanning Arm for Laryngoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"clinic-sponsor\">University of California Irvine \u201a\u00c4\u00ee Department of Otolaryngology<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"clinic-year\">2003\u201304<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Currently laryngeal cancer can only be diagnosed with biopsies which are invasive, permanently damaging, and can miss cancerous tissue.\u00ac\u2020 Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique that non-invasively images several millimeters into tissue to seek structural abnormalities, which can indicate cancer.\u00ac\u2020 We will design and construct an OCT device for attachments to a laryngoscope that will image two-dimensional cross-sections in the larynx, for the purpose of diagnosing laryngeal cancer in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-advisor\"><strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Richard Campbell Haskell, Elizabeth Orwin, and Robert P. Wolf.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-team\"><strong>Team:<\/strong> Seneca S. Harberger &#8217;05, River L. [Hutchison] Clemens &#8217;04, Rachel J. [Lovec] Currie &#8217;04, Nikhil Gheewala &#8217;04, and Tonya Icenogle &#8217;04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4908","physics_clinic","type-physics_clinic","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_clinic"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}