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Goggle Augmented Imaging And Navigation System For Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, Suman Bikash Mondal
Goggle Augmented Imaging And Navigation System For Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, Suman Bikash Mondal
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Surgery remains the only curative option for most solid tumors. The standard-of-care usually involves tumor resection and sentinel lymph node biopsy for cancer staging. Surgeons rely on their vision and touch to distinguish healthy from cancer tissue during surgery, often leading to incomplete tumor resection that necessitates repeat surgery. Sentinel lymph node biopsy by conventional radioactive tracking exposes patients and caregivers to ionizing radiation, while blue dye tracking stains the tissue highlighting only superficial lymph nodes. Improper identification of sentinel lymph nodes may misdiagnose the stage of the cancer. Therefore there is a clinical need for accurate intraoperative tumor and …