Intraoperative near-infrared imaging can distinguish cancer from normal tissue but not inflammation.

Intraoperative near-infrared imaging can distinguish cancer from normal tissue but not inflammation.

Defining tumor from non-tumor tissue is one of the major challenges of cancer surgery. Surgeons depend on visual and tactile clues to select which tissues should be removed from a patient. Recently, we and others have hypothesized near-infrared (NIR) imaging can be used during surgery to differentia...

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Main Authors: David Holt, Olugbenga Okusanya, Ryan Judy, Ollin Venegas, Jack Jiang, Elizabeth DeJesus, Evgeniy Eruslanov, Jon Quatromoni, Pratik Bhojnagarwala, Charuhas Deshpande, Steven Albelda, Shuming Nie, Sunil Singhal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4114746?pdf=render

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