A NOVEL OPTICAL APPROACH TO THE INTRAOPERATIVE DETECTION OF PARATHYROID GLANDS
A major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroids during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical spectroscopy is fast and sensitive and has been used in many in vivo application...
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VANDERBILT
2009
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-12102009-163623/ |