Title
In vivo wide-band reflectance spectrometry during thyroid and parathyroid surgery
Author
Schols, R.M.
Wieringa, F.P.
Alić, L.
Bouvy, N.D.
Stassen, L.P.S.
Publication year
2013
Abstract
Distinguishing critical tissues can be challenging in (para-)thyroid surgery. As a first step towards intraoperative image contrast enhancement, we collected and analyzed spectral signatures (350-1830nm) of thyroid, parathyroid and recurrent laryngeal nerve in 10 patients.
Subject
Physics & Electronics Mechatronics, Mechanics & Materials
EAM - Equipment for Additive Manufacturing ; II - Intelligent Imaging
TS - Technical Sciences
Health
Healthy Living
Reflectance spectroscopy
Surgery
Medical imaging
Critical tissue
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TNO identifier
485075
Source
European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2013, 12-16 May 2013, Munich, Germany
Document type
conference paper