Chemomertical analysis of endometrial tissue fluorescence spectra

An effort has been made to detect neopterin spectrum in fluorescence of premalignant endometrial tissue and to estimate the number of fluorophores naturally existing in the tissue with fluorescence present above the noise level. Endometrial Tissue fluorescence was measured in vitro by excitation with the third harmonic of Nd YAG laser. Multivariate curve resolution was used for testing neopterin presence in endometrial tissue. Fluorescence spectra ofneopterin was measured and used as a target spectrum for testing. Seven factors -fluorescence ofnatural fluorophores ofendometrial tissue were found to be present above the noise level in the overall autofluorescence. Neopterin concentration may be too low in endometrial tissue to make its fluorescence above the noise level because neopterin spectrum was not found to be among the spectra resolved by multivariate curve resolution. An intensity increase in the neopterin spectrum spectral region in hyperplastic endometrial samples might be associated with neopterin concentration increase.© (2002) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.