Diagnosis of meningioma by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Pramod V. Butte; Brian K. Pikul; Aviv Hever; William H. Yong M.D.; Keith L. Black M.D.; Laura Marcu

doi:10.1117/1.2141624

1 November 2005 Diagnosis of meningioma by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Pramod V. Butte, Brian K. Pikul, Aviv Hever, William H. Yong M.D., Keith L. Black M.D., Laura Marcu

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 10, Issue 6, 064026 (November 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2141624

Abstract

We investigate the use of time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TR-LIFS) as an adjunctive tool for the intraoperative rapid evaluation of tumor specimens and delineation of tumor from surrounding normal tissue. Tissue autofluorescence is induced with a pulsed nitrogen laser (337 nm, 1.2 ns) and the intensity decay profiles are recorded in the 370 to 500 nm spectral range with a fast digitizer (0.2 ns resolution). Experiments are conducted on excised specimens (meningioma, dura mater, cerebral cortex) from 26 patients (97 sites). Spectral intensities and time-dependent parameters derived from the time-resolved spectra of each site are used for tissue characterization. A linear discriminant analysis algorithm is used for tissue classification. Our results reveal that meningioma is characterized by unique fluorescence characteristics that enable discrimination of tumor from normal tissue with high sensitivity (>89%) and specificity (100%). The accuracy of classification is found to increase (92.8% cases in the training set and 91.8% in the cross-validated set correctly classified) when parameters from both the spectral and the time domain are used for discrimination. Our findings establish the feasibility of using TR-LIFS as a tool for the identification of meningiomas and enables further development of real-time diagnostic tools for analyzing surgical tissue specimens of meningioma or other brain tumors.

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Pramod V. Butte, Brian K. Pikul, Aviv Hever, William H. Yong M.D., Keith L. Black M.D., and Laura Marcu "Diagnosis of meningioma by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy," Journal of Biomedical Optics 10(6), 064026 (1 November 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2141624

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