Measuring the optical characteristics of medulloblastoma with optical coherence tomography

B Vuong, P Skowron, TR Kiehl, M Kyan… - Biomedical Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor. Standard treatment
consists of surgical resection, followed by radiation and high-dose chemotherapy. Despite …

Optical coherence tomography of human brain glioma as a promising tool for intraoperative diagnostics in neurosurgery

PV Aleksandrova, IN Dolganova… - … on Biomedical Optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
An intraoperative diagnosis of brain tumors is one of the most urgent and challenging
problem of the modern neurosurgery. The most important measure of the effectiveness of …

Pilot feasibility study of in vivo intraoperative quantitative optical coherence tomography of human brain tissue during glioma resection

M Almasian, LS Wilk, PR Bloemen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the feasibility of in vivo quantitative optical coherence tomography
(OCT) of human brain tissue during glioma resection surgery in six patients. High‐resolution …

Optical coefficients as tools for increasing the optical coherence tomography contrast for normal brain visualization and glioblastoma detection

EB Kiseleva, KS Yashin, AA Moiseev… - …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The methods used for digital processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and
crosspolarization (CP) OCT images are focused on improving the contrast ratio of native …

Optical coherence tomography for neurosurgical imaging of human intracortical melanoma

SA Boppart, ME Brezinski, C Pitris, JG Fujimoto - Neurosurgery, 1998 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative identification of brain tumors and tumor margins has been
limited by either the resolution of the in vivo imaging technique or the time required to obtain …

Non-invasive intraoperative optical coherence tomography of the resection cavity during surgery of intrinsic brain tumors

A Giese, HJ Böhringer, J Leppert… - … and diagnostics II, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique with a
micrometer resolution. It allows non-contact/non-invasive analysis of central nervous system …

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography for ex vivo brain tumor analysis

M Lenz, R Krug, V Jaedicke, R Stroop… - … on Biomedical Optics, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Non-contact imaging methods to distinguish between healthy tissue and brain tumor tissue
during surgery would be highly desirable but are not yet available. Optical Coherence …

Differentiation of different stages of brain tumor infiltration using optical coherence tomography: Comparison of two systems and histology

P Strenge, B Lange, W Draxinger, C Grill… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The discrimination of tumor-infiltrated tissue from non-tumorous brain tissue during
neurosurgical tumor excision is a major challenge in neurosurgery. It is critical to achieve full …

Optical Coherence Tomography in Brain Gliomas Detection and Peritumoral White Matter State Evaluation

ND Gladkova, KA Achkasova, KS Yashin… - Advances in Brain …, 2022 - Springer
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a rapidly emerging visualization method providing
real-time detailed information about the biological tissues structure without any contrast …

Characterization of brain tumor tissue with 1310 nm optical coherence tomography

P Strenge, B Lange, C Grill… - … optical methods in …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The separation of tumorous brain tissue and healthy brain tissue is still a big challenge in
the field of neurosurgery, especially when it comes to the detection of different infiltration …