Summary |
Lymphedema is a chronic, progressive, and debilitating disease. Near-infrared fluorescent imaging of arm lymphatic vessel architecture and function in breast cancer-related lymphedema and control subjects revealed a trend of increased lymphatic abnormalities in both the afflicted and unafflicted arms with increasing time after lymphedema onset. |
Industrial Applicability |
The hand-held device for indocyanine green fluorescent imaging has rather poor image stability, and its light source modules can be small in size, high in cost, and difficult to product. Therefore, the development of a device capable of simultaneously imaging blood vessels and lymphatic images on a real patient's body picture, equipped with a mobile platform is necessory. |