Mosquito Bite Needle Endoscope

Aditya Pandya
Adjunct Professor

apandya@torontomu.ca

The project is devoted to development of a microendoscope, which outer diameter is 195 micron, the inner diameter is 100 micron, and the length is 45 mm. This outer diameter is comparable with an acupuncture needle, but our needles are hollow and can deliver an endoscope. The main advantage of our scope - it can take small biopsies under imaging and spectroscopy control practically painless and causing no bleeding. The tissue destruction is minimal and healing is fast. It gives an opportunity to perform biopsies and collect diagnostic data not only in hospitals under anesthesia, but also in small clinics and to apply biopsy easier obtaining considerably more data per patient. This is the main point why such an endoscope is a game changer for the patient care, opening much more robust diagnostics prospective. An optical schematics and fluorescence imaging of normal and cancer in breast can be seen in the pictures. This is a collaboration project with University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital and Ontario Cancer Centre.