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2018

Cancer

Dartmouth College

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Review Of Methods For Intraoperative Margin Detection For Breast Conserving Surgery, Benjamin W. Maloney, David M. Mcclatchy, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, Wendy A. Wells, Richard J. Barth Oct 2018

Review Of Methods For Intraoperative Margin Detection For Breast Conserving Surgery, Benjamin W. Maloney, David M. Mcclatchy, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, Wendy A. Wells, Richard J. Barth

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Breast conserving surgery (BCS) is an effective treatment for early-stage cancers as long as the margins of the resected tissue are free of disease according to consensus guidelines for patient management. However, 15% to 35% of patients undergo a second surgery since malignant cells are found close to or at the margins of the original resection specimen. This review highlights imaging approaches being investigated to reduce the rate of positive margins, and they are reviewed with the assumption that a new system would need high sensitivity near 95% and specificity near 85%. The problem appears to be twofold. The first …


Perspective Review Of What Is Needed For Molecular-Specific Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, Brian W. Pogue, Eben L. Rosenthal, Samuel Achilefu, Gooitzen M. Van Dam Oct 2018

Perspective Review Of What Is Needed For Molecular-Specific Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, Brian W. Pogue, Eben L. Rosenthal, Samuel Achilefu, Gooitzen M. Van Dam

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Molecular image-guided surgery has the potential for translating the tools of molecular pathology to real-time guidance in surgery. As a whole, there are incredibly positive indicators of growth, including the first United States Food and Drug Administration clearance of an enzyme-biosynthetic-activated probe for surgery guidance, and a growing number of companies producing agents and imaging systems. The strengths and opportunities must be continued but are hampered by important weaknesses and threats within the field. A key issue to solve is the inability of macroscopic imaging tools to resolve microscopic biological disease heterogeneity and the limitations in microscopic systems matching surgery …


Light Scattering Measured With Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging Can Predict Stromal Versus Epithelial Proportions In Surgically Resected Breast Tissue, David M. Mcclatchy, Elizabeth J. Rizzo, Wendy A. Wells, Candice C. Black, Keith D. Paulsen, Stephen C. Kanick, Brian W. Pogue Sep 2018

Light Scattering Measured With Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging Can Predict Stromal Versus Epithelial Proportions In Surgically Resected Breast Tissue, David M. Mcclatchy, Elizabeth J. Rizzo, Wendy A. Wells, Candice C. Black, Keith D. Paulsen, Stephen C. Kanick, Brian W. Pogue

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This study aims to determine if light scatter parameters measured with spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) can accurately predict stromal, epithelial, and adipose fractions in freshly resected, unstained human breast specimens. An explicit model was developed to predict stromal, epithelial, and adipose fractions as a function of light scattering parameters, which was validated against a quantitative analysis of digitized histology slides for N  =  31 specimens using leave-one-out cross-fold validation. Specimen mean stromal, epithelial, and adipose volume fractions predicted from light scattering parameters strongly correlated with those calculated from digitized histology slides (r  =  0.90, 0.77, and 0.91, respectively, p-value× …


Correcting For Targeted And Control Agent Signal Differences In Paired-Agent Molecular Imaging Of Cancer Cell-Surface Receptors, Negar Sadeghipour, Scott C. Davis, Kenneth M. Tichauer Jun 2018

Correcting For Targeted And Control Agent Signal Differences In Paired-Agent Molecular Imaging Of Cancer Cell-Surface Receptors, Negar Sadeghipour, Scott C. Davis, Kenneth M. Tichauer

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Paired-agent kinetic modeling protocols provide one means of estimating cancer cell-surface receptors with in vivo molecular imaging. The protocols employ the coadministration of a control imaging agent with one or more targeted imaging agent to account for the nonspecific uptake and retention of the targeted agent. These methods require the targeted and control agent data be converted to equivalent units of concentration, typically requiring specialized equipment and calibration, and/or complex algorithms that raise the barrier to adoption. This work evaluates a kinetic model capable of correcting for targeted and control agent signal differences. This approach was compared with an existing …