A number of endomicroscopic devices for real-time analysis of morphological characteristics of an internal organ has been recently developed. In particular, multimodal endomicroscopy to obtain the images not only on the surface of the lesion, but also on the depth can help clinical decison by visualizing the cancer margin and invasion depthm simultaneously. Here, we are developing a multi-modal endomicroscopy shich can provide both confocal microscopic (CM) and optical coherence tomograpic (OCT) images. Various images obtained through our research can be integrated with the state-of-the-art image processing, and development of an integrated system for efficient real-time diagnosis is in progress.
Implementing a practical multimodal endomicroscopiy by using several scanning methods such as a fiber-resonant scanner to visualize the lesion with a fast imaging speed.