This device and platform seeks to provide a point-of-care diagnostic tool to assess tissue quality. The handheld probe that interfaces with the tissue will have multiple components including fibers that deliver laser light, fibers that detect spectra, fibers that transmit acoustic signals and fibers that conduct force displacement data electronically. The light is generated from a laser light source within the detection console. This console also houses the spectroscopic detector arrays, IR, Raman & others. In addition, if force transduction and/or elasticity is being assessed, the detecting capability to quantify this is also housed in this box. Further components include the ability to provide computation and correlative diagnostic results. Some of these data may be stored in a web-based data storage capability with the ability to utilize large databases of histology images.
