Probe Being Used to Interrogate Brain Tissue during Surgery (IMAGE)

Polytechnique Montréal

Probe Being Used to Interrogate Brain Tissue during Surgery

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Schematic depiction of the probe being used to interrogate brain tissue during surgery. The image shows a photograph of the probe held by a surgeon, Raman spectral associated with normal brain and cancer, as well as a magnetic resonance image (MRI) of a brain cancer patient with the red area representing the tumor.

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Frédéric Leblond, Kevin Petrecca

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