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SUBMITTER: Garcia M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6241325 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia Missael M Edmiston Christopher C York Timothy T Marinov Radoslav R Mondal Suman S Zhu Nan N Sudlow Gail P GP Akers Walter J WJ Margenthaler Julie J Achilefu Samuel S Liang Rongguang R Zayed Mohamed A MA Pepino Marta Y MY Gruev Viktor V
Optica 20180101 4
Image-guided surgery can enhance cancer treatment by decreasing, and ideally eliminating, positive tumor margins and iatrogenic damage to healthy tissue. Current state-of-the-art near-infrared fluorescence imaging systems are bulky and costly, lack sensitivity under surgical illumination, and lack co-registration accuracy between multimodal images. As a result, an overwhelming majority of physicians still rely on their unaided eyes and palpation as the primary sensing modalities for distinguishi ...[more]