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Table 3 Summary of structural properties different in normal and malignant ovaries

From: Alterations of the extracellular matrix in ovarian cancer studied by Second Harmonic Generation imaging microscopy

 

μs (457 nm) (cm-1) density

Refractive index correlation function

SHG emission (%forward)

Fibril packing Into fibers

SHG Intensity (relative)

Concentration and organization

SHG anisotropy

Fiber organization

Normal

172 ± 39

Mass fractal

93%

1

0.76

Cancer

267 ± 19

Stretched exponential

77%

3.9

0.88

Conclusion

Cancer denser

Cancer more ordered

Cancer better packed fibrils

Cancer denser and more organized

Cancer more organized