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1 May 2017 Real-time assessment of breast surgical margins with fluorescence-guided microscopy (Conference Presentation)
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Abstract
A novel multimodal optical imaging approach for real-time assessment of surgical margins on breast cancer lumpectomy specimens is presented. Our approach is to target cancer cells using an optically silent peptide substrate containing two (NIR) fluorochromes, internally quenched, which are cleaved by highly expressed breast cancer enzymes, like urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA). Thus this agent becomes highly fluorescent only on the cancer area when the specimen is excited by a NIR laser beam. A fluorescence imager is used to highlight cancer-suspect margins on the surgical specimen, while high-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is used to visualize tissue morphology on the highlighted areas and confirm or rule out cancer presence. This technology will hopefully increase the success rate of cancer surgeries, reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and significantly reduce US healthcare costs.
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Nicusor V. Iftimia, Jesung Park, Gopi N. Maguluri, and Savitri Krishnamurthy "Real-time assessment of breast surgical margins with fluorescence-guided microscopy (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10060, Optical Biopsy XV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 100600D (1 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256512
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KEYWORDS
Cancer

Breast

Breast cancer

Coherence imaging

Microscopy

Near infrared

Optical coherence tomography

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