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Intraoperative Guidance For Pediatric Brain Surgery Based On Optical Techniques, Yinchen Song
Intraoperative Guidance For Pediatric Brain Surgery Based On Optical Techniques, Yinchen Song
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
For most of the patients with brain tumors and/or epilepsy, surgical resection of brain lesions, when applicable, remains one of the optimal treatment options. The success of the surgery hinges on accurate demarcation of neoplastic and epileptogenic brain tissue. The primary goal of this PhD dissertation is to demonstrate the feasibility of using various optical techniques in conjunction with sophisticated signal processing algorithms to differentiate brain tumor and epileptogenic cortex from normal brain tissue intraoperatively.
In this dissertation, a new tissue differentiation algorithm was developed to detect brain tumors in vivo using a probe-based diffuse reflectance spectroscopy system. The system …