Brain Tumor Resection Guided with Single-Point Raman Spectroscopy: In-Human Results

• DOI: 10.1364/biomed.2014.bs5a.4
• Publication Date: 2014-04-24T13:58:44Z
• Authors: Michael Jermyn; Kelvin Mok; Joannie Desroches; Jeanne Mercier; Karl Saint-Arnaud; Liane Bernstein; Marie-Christine G...; Kevin Petrecca; Frederic Leblond
• Keywords: Brain tumor; Brain tissue; Human brain

A Raman spectroscopy technique was developed and used on 8 glioblastoma patients. We demonstrate that a classification accuracy of 93% is achieved in differentiating normal brain from tumor tissue with low densities cancer cells.