Author:
Anbunesan Silvia Noble,Alfonso-Garcia Alba,Hasan Mohamed,Riestenberg Robert A,Bobinski Matthew,Lee Han Sung,Jin Lee-Way,Bloch Orin,Marcu Laura
Abstract
The MRI-based neuronavigation fails in detecting gliomas tumor infiltrative edges due to intraoperative brain shift. The intraoperative fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm), reported here, provides 7% higher accuracy in detecting infiltrative tumor edges over pre-operative MRI.