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SUBMITTER: Vahrmeijer AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755013 | biostudies-other | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Vahrmeijer Alexander L AL Hutteman Merlijn M van der Vorst Joost R JR van de Velde Cornelis J H CJ Frangioni John V JV
Nature reviews. Clinical oncology 20130723 9
Paradigm shifts in surgery arise when surgeons are empowered to perform surgery faster, better and less expensively than current standards. Optical imaging that exploits invisible near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent light (700-900 nm) has the potential to improve cancer surgery outcomes, minimize the time patients are under anaesthesia and lower health-care costs largely by way of its improved contrast and depth of tissue penetration relative to visible light. Accordingly, the past few years have wi ...[more]