Detection of breast positive surgical margins with fluorescence-guided microscopy imaging
(Conference Presentation)

Nicusor V. Iftimia; Dorin Preda; Jesung Park; Mitchell Antalek

doi:10.1117/12.2213887

26 April 2016 Detection of breast positive surgical margins with fluorescence-guided microscopy imaging (Conference Presentation)

Nicusor V. Iftimia, Dorin Preda, Jesung Park, Mitchell Antalek

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Proceedings Volume 9696, Molecular-Guided Surgery: Molecules, Devices, and Applications II; 96960S (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213887
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We present a novel technology based on a high sensitivity/specificity cancer targeting agent and of a novel fluorescence-guided microscopy (FGM) scheme for intraoperative assessment of surgical margins in breast cancer patients. Cancer cells are targeted using an optically silent peptide substrate coupled to a near infrared (NIR) fluorochrome that is cleaved by highly mediated breast cancer enzymes, like urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), to become highly fluorescent when excited by a NIR laser beam. A FGM instrument is used to localize cancer-suspect areas on the lumpectomy specimen and visualize tissue morphology at the sub-cellular scale, such that a trained pathologist can read these images in real-time and confirm or rule-out cancer presence. The proposed technology will enable efficient assessment of surgical specimens during surgery, when it is mostly needed, and therefore help the clinician to determine if additional tissue excision is needed or not. The preliminary testing of this technology on breast surgical specimens will be discussed.

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Nicusor V. Iftimia, Dorin Preda, Jesung Park, and Mitchell Antalek "Detection of breast positive surgical margins with fluorescence-guided microscopy imaging (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9696, Molecular-Guided Surgery: Molecules, Devices, and Applications II, 96960S (26 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213887

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