Assessment of open-field fluorescence guided surgery systems: implementing a standardized method for characterization and comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

Fluorescence guided surgery (FGS) has demonstrated improvements in decision making and patient outcomes for a wide range of surgical procedures. Not only can FGS systems provide a higher level of structural perfusion accuracy in tissue reconstruction cases but they can also serve for real-time functional characterization. Multiple FGS devices have been Food and Drug administration (FDA) cleared for use in open and laparoscopic surgery. Despite the rapid growth of the field, there has been a lack standardization methods.

Aim

This work overviews commonalities inherent to optical imaging methods that can be exploited to produce such a standardization procedure. Furthermore, a system evaluation pipeline is proposed and executed through the use of photo-stable indocy

SUBMITTER: Ochoa MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10513724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature