Quantitative subsurface spatial frequency-domain fluorescence imaging for enhanced glioma resection.

ABSTRACT: The rate of complete resection of glioma has improved with the introduction of 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) fluorescence image guidance. Surgical outcomes are further enhanced when the fluorescence signal is decoupled from the intrinsic tissue optical absorption and scattering obtained from diffuse reflectance measurements, yielding the absolute PpIX concentration, [PpIX]. Spatial frequency domain imaging was used previously to measure [PpIX] in near-surface tumors under blue fluorescence excitation. Here, we extend this to subsurface [PpIX] fluorescence under red-light excitation. The decay rate of the modulation amplitude of the fluorescence signal was used to calculate the PpIX depth, which was then applied in a forward diffusion model to estimate [PpIX] at dep

SUBMITTER: Sibai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6470016 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature