Guided surgery

Center for Imaging Technology and Molecular DiagnosticsThis article says, “you might call it cutting by color“.

“Cancer surgeons today operate “blind” with no clear way of determining in real-time whether they have removed all of the diseased tissue, which is the key to successful surgery.

“Researchers in Massachusetts now report development and early clinical trials of a new imaging system that highlights cancerous tissue in the body so that surgeons can more easily see and remove diseased tissue with less damage to normal tissue near the tumor.

“This technique is really the first time that cancer surgeons can see structures that are otherwise invisible, providing true image-guided surgery.”