Endometriosis affects around 10% of young women resulting in a wide range of symptoms. Currently diagnosis can only be performed by laparoscopic surgery.
A potential non-invasive method to detect endometriosis by acquiring a spectral signature of the uterus has been developed by Francis Martin and colleagues from Lancaster University. They used infrared spectroscopy together with computational analysis to analyse the difference between uterine tissue affected by endometriosis and normal tissue in the uterus.
Read Elinor Richards’ news story in Chemistry World, and access the full article for free below:
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy discriminates a spectral signature of endometriosis independent of inter-individual variation
Karen T. Cheung, Júlio Trevisan, Jemma G. Kelly, Katherine M. Ashton, Helen F. Stringfellow, Siân E. Taylor, Maneesh N. Singh, Pierre L. Martin-Hirsch and Francis L. Martin
Analyst, 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/c0an00972e
