Hw. Tang et al., Measurements of the DNA content in a breast tumor cell based on the Hadamard transform microscopic fluorescence image, ANAL SCI, 15(2), 1999, pp. 113-119
The technique of Hadamard transform microscopic fluorescence imaging is des
cribed. With an Acridine Orange (AO) staining cell, some factors that influ
ence the fluorescence intensity of a cellular AO-DNA complex were studied;
thereby the technique was applied to measure the nuclear DNA content (ploid
y) in a breast tumor cell, and some parameters were employed to evaluate th
e tumor malignancy. A comparative study with conventional microfluorometry
indicates that our system has some outstanding advantages. By using this sy
stem, the results of malignancy evaluation for 38 cases of breast tumor spe
cimens were concordant with pathological diagnosis. This work demonstrates
that this technique has a high potential value in medicine and cytobiology
and may be applied as a new method for diagnostic and prognostic studies of
tumor cases.