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Diagnostic imaging of the upper urinary tract is a cumbersome process that involves a multitude of different imaging modalities, including ultrasonography, conventional radiography, X-ray fluoroscopy (retrograde and antegrade ureteropyelography), endoscopy (cystoscopy and ureterorenoscopy) without or with biopsy, multi-detector-row computed tomography (MDCT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, these modalities leave a diagnostic gap because they cannot demonstrate different layers of the wall of the upper urinary tract. Recent research shows that catheter-based, intraluminal probes for optical coherence tomography (OCT) with near-infrared light provide cross-sectional images from within the lumen of the upper urinary tract that distinguish between the urothelium, lamina ...
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