Emory and Georgia Tech researchers have developed a highly sensitive spectrometer to identify low-grade gliomas from healthy tissue. The hand-held device contains a light source and detector tuned to the excitation and emission wavelengths of PpIX.
The team claims that the device is 3 times more sensitive than current surgical microscopes, and enables the detection of as few as 1000 tumor cells.
This could lead to the ability of surgeons to remove low-grade gliomas with fluorescence-guided procedures.
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