Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer, and a number of optical techniques have been developed to assist clinicians in its diagnosis and treatment. Examples include the use of near-IR ...

THE diagnosis and management of a lump in the neck of a young patient can be a difficult problem. Inadvertent excision of functioning ectopic thyroid tissue in the tongue or subhyoid area when the ...

A project at Spain's ICFO research center has employed diffuse optics in a platform designed to monitor thyroid health, to assist disease diagnosis and therapy. Thyroid diseases affect 200 million ...