Photoacoustic tomography of human hepatic malignancies using intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence imaging.

Recently, fluorescence imaging following the preoperative intravenous injection of indocyanine green has been used in clinical settings to identify hepatic malignancies during surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of photoacoustic tomography using indocyanine green as a contrast...

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Main Authors: Akinori Miyata, Takeaki Ishizawa, Mako Kamiya, Atsushi Shimizu, Junichi Kaneko, Hideaki Ijichi, Junji Shibahara, Masashi Fukayama, Yutaka Midorikawa, Yasuteru Urano, Norihiro Kokudo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4224503?pdf=render