Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 191-197 , September 2008

Optical coherence tomography: A potential tool for unsupervised prediction of treatment response for Port-Wine Stains

  • F. Bazant-Hegemark

      Affiliations

    • Cranfield Health, Cranfield University at Silsoe, Bedfordshire MK45 4DT, UK
    • Biophotonics Research Group, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Great Western Road, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK
    • ,
  • I. Meglinski

      Affiliations

    • Cranfield Health, Cranfield University at Silsoe, Bedfordshire MK45 4DT, UK
    • Laser Treatment Centre, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Kempston Road, Bedford MK42 9DJ, UK
    • ,
  • N. Kandamany

      Affiliations

    • Laser Treatment Centre, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Kempston Road, Bedford MK42 9DJ, UK
    • ,
  • B. Monk

      Affiliations

    • Laser Treatment Centre, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Kempston Road, Bedford MK42 9DJ, UK
    • ,
  • N. Stone (PhD, MBA)

      Affiliations

    • Cranfield Health, Cranfield University at Silsoe, Bedfordshire MK45 4DT, UK
    • Biophotonics Research Group, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Great Western Road, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Biophotonics Research Group, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Great Western Road, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK.

References 

  1. British Association of Dermatologists, BAD Patient Information Leaflet [last update 2004 October, cited 2007 December 29]. Available from: http://www.bad.org.uk/patients/leaflets/birthmarks.asp; 2004.
  2. Kelly KM, Choi B, McFarlane S, et al. Description and analysis of treatments for port-wine stain birthmarks. Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2005;7:287–294
  3. Bashkatov AN, Genina EA, Kochubey VI, Tuchin VV. Optical properties of human skin, subcutaneous and mucous tissues in the wavelength range from 400 to 2000nm. J Phys D: Appl Phys. 2005;38:2543–2555
  4. Smit JM, Bauland CG, Wijnberg DS, Spauwen PHM. Pulsed dye laser treatment, a review of indications and outcome based on published trials. Br J Plast Surg. 2005;58:981–987
  5. Chiu CH, Chan HHL, Ho WS, et al. Prospective study of pulsed dye laser in conjunction with cryogen spray cooling for treatment of port wine stains in Chinese patients. Dermatol Surg. 2003;29:909–915
  6. Lanigan SW, Taibjee SM. Recent advances in laser treatment of port-wine stains. Brit J Dermatol. 2004;151:527–533
  7. Jasim ZF, Handley JM. Treatment of pulsed dye laser-resistant port wine stain birthmarks. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2007;57:677–682
  8. Soueid A, Waters R. Re-emergence of port wine stains following treatment with flashlamp-pumped dye laser 585nm. Ann Plas Surg. 2006;57:260–263
  9. Huikeshoven M, Koster PHL, de Borgie CAJM, et al. Redarkening of port-wine stains 10 years after pulsed-dye-laser treatment. New Engl J Med. 2007;356:1235–1240
  10. Huang D, Swanson EA, Lin CP, et al. Optical coherence tomography. Science. 1991;254:1178–1181
  11. Tomlins PH, Wang RKK. Theory, developments and applications of optical coherence tomography. J Phys D: Appl Phys. 2005;38:2519–3253
  12. Barton JK, Izatt JA, Kulkarni MD, et al. Three-dimensional reconstruction of blood vessels from in vivo color Doppler optical coherence tomography images. Dermatology. 1999;198:355–361
  13. Wang RKK, Jacques SL, Ma Z, et al. Three dimensional optical angiography. Opt Express. 2007;15:4083–4097
  14. Makita S, Hong Y, Yamanari M, et al. Optical coherence angiography. Opt Express. 2006;14:7821–7840
  15. Zhao Y, Chen Z, Saxer C, et al. Doppler standard deviation imaging for clinical monitoring of in vivo human skin blood flow. Opt Lett. 2000;25:1358–1360
  16. Nelson JS, Kelly KM, Zhao YH, Chen ZP. Imaging blood flow in human port-wine stain in situ and in real time using optical Doppler tomography. Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:741–744
  17. Bonesi M, Churmakov DY, Ritchie LJ, Meglinski IV. Turbulence monitoring with Doppler optical coherence tomography. Laser Phys Lett. 2006;4:304–307
  18. Bazant-Hegemark F, Stone N., Towards automated classification of clinical optical coherence tomography data. LIMS, in press, doi:10.1007/s10103-008-0615-6.
  19. Weissman J, Hancewicz T, Kaplan P. Optical coherence tomography of skin for measurement of epidermal thickness by shapelet-based image analysis. Opt Express. 2004;12:5760–5769
  20. Rogowska J, Bryant CM, Brezinski ME. Cartilage thickness measurements from optical coherence tomography. J Opt Soc Am A. 2003;20:357–367
  21. Gambichler T, Moussa G, Regeniter P, et al. Validation of optical coherence tomography in vivo using cryostat histology. Phys Med Biol. 2007;52:N75–N85
  22. Bazant-Hegemark F, Stone N. Near real-time classification of optical coherence tomography data using principal components fed linear discriminant analysis. J Biomed Opt. 2008;13(3):034002
  23. Yang Y, Dubois A, Qin X-P, et al. Investigation of optical coherence tomography as an imaging modality in tissue engineering. Phys Med Biol. 2006;51:1649–1659
  24. Brereton RG. Experimental design, and pattern recognition, Chapters 1 & 4. Chemometrics—data analysis for the laboratory and chemical plant. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; 2003;ISBN: 0-471-84977-6; pp. 15–53 and 191–224
  25. Wold S, Esbensen K, Geladi P. Principal component analysis. Chemometr Intell Lab. 1987;2:37–52
  26. Zysk AM, Boppart SA. Computational methods for analysis of human breast tumor tissue in optical coherence tomography images. J Biomed Opt. 2006;11:054015
  27. Iftimia NV, Bouma BE, Pitman MB, et al. A portable, low coherence interferometry based instrument for fine needle aspiration biopsy guidance. Rev Sci Instrum. 2005;76:064301
  28. Hori Y, Yasuno Y, Sakai S, et al. Automatic characterization and segmentation of human skin using three-dimensional optical coherence tomography. Opt Express. 2006;14:1862–1877
  29. Proskurin SG, Meglinski IV. Optical coherence tomography imaging depth enhancement by superficial skin optical clearing. Laser Phys Lett. 2007;4:824–826
  30. Vargas G, Readinger A, Dozier SS, Welch AJ. Morphological changes in blood vessels produced by hyperosmotic agents and measured by optical coherence tomography. Photochem Photobiol. 2003;77:541–549
  31. Lanigan S. Improving the treatment of port wine stain birthmarks. PDPDT. 2007;4:143–144
  32. Qin ZP, Li KL, Ren L, Liu XJ. Photodynamic therapy of port wine stains—a report of 238 cases. PDPDT. 2007;4:53–59
  33. Yuan KH, Li Q, Yu WL, Zeng D, Zhang C, Huang Z. Comparison of photodynamic therapy and pulsed dye laser in patients with port wine stain birthmarks: a retrospective analysis. PDPDT. 2008;5:50–57

PII: S1572-1000(08)00076-8

doi: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2008.09.001

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 191-197 , September 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution